Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for June, 1930 Discovered Reginald Denny [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 43 ] "I've come to make you a proposition," he said. "They all say this is a bad picture. Very well, let me sign a contract to the effect that if it flops I'll work for you for six months for nothing or until every cent of your losses is paid back, but if it is a success, then I'm to have final word on stories and cutting." Laemmle would think it over. He thought it over. But decided against it. After all, it was an amazing proposition. "rpHAT'S IMy Daddy" made more money ■»■ than any other Denny starring picture made in the last several years. "But," said Denny, "they called me a Bolshevist. They said I was hard to manage. I like doing farce but I wasn't doing good farce. " I'm honest when I say I never want to be a star again. It's much better to be a featured player. If I'm a featured player I'm cast properly. A story comes up for consideration. It has been picked without thought of cast. There is a role that I may characterize. They give it to me. "But when I'm a star they say, 'Now we must find a story' — vehicle, they insist upon calling it — 'for Denny.' And they build a plot around my personality, making me exactly as I was in every film I've ever played. "I knew it couldn't go on. I knew that I was being killed off on the screen. It wouldn't have surprised me if the dear old public had thrown rocks at me every time I so much as showed my face on the Boulevard. And I felt that because of the bad ones I'd made nobody would give me work. "When my contract was terminated by mutual agreement, I left the lot feeling certain that I should never step inside another studio again." But what Denny had failed to take into consideration was the talkies, and that he had not only a nice English voice but that he had sung baritone in light operas. His singing voice had broken while he was doing, strangely enough, "Gypsy Love," the operetta from which Lawrence Tibbett's "The Rogue Song" was adapted. However, few voices are damaged beyond repair. When Reg discovered that Sono-Art was interested in him and was going to make him a proposition, he got a vocal teacher. Suddenly he realized that there was a chance. This time he would not make similar mistakes. His first picture for Sono-Art was called "His Dark Chapter," later changed to "What a Man!" They wanted him to play the role of a youngster. """THAT'S ridiculous," said Denny. "The -*■ character in the story is thirty-five. At that I'm giving myself a few years. I'm thirtynine, you see, and why should I try to look and act younger than I am? " Apparently he was right, because while he was doing this part Cecil De Mille was casting about for a Monsieur for "Madame Satan." He tested Denny and found him to be the man. 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