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row the press tired a deadly rat-atat-tat of criticism at him.
"When you've had a couple of bad pictures you get complexes," Boh says "And when you've had more than a couple you get more complexes. I was afraid the public was oiT me. I was sun if a good part did come up and I was suggested for it the director in charge would dodge me somehow."
I?ol> grinned. "If there'd been anyone I could have blamed for tl hum pictures it might have helped. But there wasn't a soul. 'Stand Up
and Fight,' I didn't like. And I didn't Lady of the Tropics.' But I thought 'Lucky Night' and Remember?' were going to be all right
"It was a tough year for Barbara, too. Because I take my troubles home, even when I swear to myself th.it I won't. I let people see — Barbara, at any rate when I'm restless and nervous and depressed. Barbara kids when she's worried. She kids until she falls on her face. And I mean jails on her jacc! I've picked her up a couple of times'''
We asked Bob why stars go into pictures thej don't believe in, why. for instance. (Continued on page 74)
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