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Artists say Dolores Del Rio has the most beautiful face in Hollywood. The gowns she wears in "In Caliente" add to her beauty, a pure, Grecian simplicity of line
EVILS
Temperament, Vanity, Stubbornness
and Selfishness. These are the four
necessary evils of success
By DOLORES DEL RIO
OF course I have temperament. Of course I am vain. I am, at times, as set on having my own way as that well-known stubborn mule. And selfish! I am that too. And, strangely enough, these are all traits which one must have to be a success in my profession.
I admit I am guilty of these qualities, because, when they are properly handled, they can be attractive qualities. I have developed them all, purposely, since the time I was a small child. And before you say — Yes, an actress can get away with that sort of thing . . . but an ordinary woman, never! — let me tell you that every woman can and should develop a little of these qualities if she wants to become the adored, beloved, spoiled object of some man's affection — as they say in that funny song!
Yes, a woman who is always sweet, always modest, always agreeable and always generous is like too much ripe fruit. You can stand only a taste. Or, another way of saying it, is that a little bitter with the sweet is always appetizing.
Temperament! All actresses have temperament, I am sure, or else they would not be actresses. A few women I know who started out in the theatrical world without temperament, soon found that the theatrical world was not particularly enthusiastic about them. They lacked something, their producers said. They lacked fire. Because they lacked the ability to stir themselves emotionally, they lacked the ability to stir others.
I am afraid there is a general misunderstanding about the word temperament. Some years ago someone made the rather witty, but incorrect statement that temperament was just plain "temper" without the last syllable. And people began to look upon it as such. When they heard of an actress flaring up on the set and creating an angry, noisy scene, they said, "Ah, temperament!" But it did not occur to them that when that same actress performed a beautiful, sad scene — tender and tearful — that she was also, at that time, too, displaying temperament.
TEMPERAMENT is the blend of many emotional qualities . . . temperament is the thing that enables one to respond, with the same emotional elasticity, to beauty, to ugliness, to depression, to great joy. Just as steel is "tempered," so is a personality made pliable by temperament — both words (Please turn to page 52 )
The New Movie Magazine, August, 1985