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while they grumbled there was no way in which they could alibi away his consistent success with every medium of entertainment.
Things weren't -always easy for him, either. Political factions are bound to arise around a position as great as his. A few years ago he found himself given four stars who were considered completely passe, a picture with those four, brothers, and the picture Night at the Opera" — one of the most hilarious films ever screened. It brought the Marxes back to fame. It left Thalberg untouched in his primary simplicity.
That, really, was his secret. He was completely sincere, utterly unaffected. His was the simple and pure wish to do anything he did the very best he could. He was the pure in heart and against such the world is powerless to harm.
He understood equally well the temperament of actors, writers and the humbler laborers around the studio. All could go to him with their troubles, and nearly all of them did. He sympathized and advised, directed and helped Because of his generosity of spirit, Metro never had trouble with its actors. There were no eontract quarrels, no "walkoffs." He could soothe the most troubled back to peace.
HK died at the moment of his greatest triumph, reading international acclaim of his production and Xorma's acting in "Romeo and Juliet." He was thirty-seven years old.
He left behind him four unfinished productions, "The Good Earth," in the cutting room; "A Day at the Races" and "Maytime," which were shooting; and "Camille," almost entirely finished. The variety of these productions — drama, comedy, musical and historical melodrama— reveals why replacing him in the Hollywood scheme will be almost impossible
His passing came one September morning a half-hour before the stock exchange closed in New York City, three thousand miles away, yet in those few moments the news traveled eastward with a speed that shook the financial capitol and sent his company's stock tumbling by half a dozen points.
He had been ill for little less than a week with a cold that developed into pneumonia. He had the mind of a genius and the heart of a saint but they availed him not in the least against lungs that were too frail.
Tragic Norma Shearer has this one comfort. Hollywood can never forget Irving Thalberg — not as long as beauty, and truth, and fidelity, and simplicity stay alive in the world.
Always human, Irving was a devoted father. This portrait with Irving, Jr., shows his proud delight in his baby son. To Norma Shearer, he was her husband, her love, and, even more important, her greatest friend
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