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Colleen Moore played the city vamp who won Bobby Harron away from Mildred Harris in Fine Art's "The Bad Boy." Wilbur Higby is the irate
elder in this scene.
CAN you imagine Colleen Moore swooning under the fiery embraces of John Barrymore ; Norma Talmadge with her head in a camera cloth throughout the length of her appearance in a picture; Jack Gilbert playing Bill Hart's little brother; Lon Chaney being a cowboy; Janet Gaynor doing comedy in a bathing suit and Charley Farrell lugging Mary Pickford to her carriage? No, neither can I, but it's all the truth, s'help me. And furthermore they all seem very proud of these strange situations.
The Famous Film Fa vori tes tell all about their Adventures when they were Unknown
It seems the rule that the really big and lasting successes in pictures come from the ranks of extras and bit players. This has no reference to the stars who step from stage experience to the screen. That's another story.
The lack of a slow process of building up is a thing few stars can survive for very long. Hollywood is full of stories of stars made too soon, who declined rapidly for various reasons all attributable to the lack of extra and bit work. Some stars are wise enough to see this ; Clive Brook could have been starred in his native England but feared the result, as he did not feel himself sufficiently prepared for stardom. Time has shown his idea of building a career slowly and thoroughly was right. After bits and leads he has gained popularity on as sure a footing as there is in Hollywood.
MANY stars who rose rapidly have only regr their rapid rise. The usual state of affairs i
et for is that the newly made star begins to skid ; and then if a successful career is to be rescued from the debris, the star has to begin all over again. The second rise, or comeback, is usually permanent, after the lessons that extra and bit work can teach have been willingly learned.
This is the story of Billie Dove. She was brought to Hollywood from the Follies, was given leading roles and starred almost at once. Three pictures, and she flopped rather badly. A couple of years of slow climbing and hard work and she gained her chance opposite Douglas Fairbanks in "The Black Pirate." It was a bitter lesson to learn; but it paid Billie to forget her pride and learn it.
Gloria Swanson in herKeystone days, when she played with Bobby Vernon. Miss Swanson, however, did not have to wait long for screen stardom.
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