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FROM A STOOL AT SCHWAB’S;
I thought even less of Zsa Zsa Gabor after the Bel-Air fire than I did before, and then she had only a passing grade. Her great drive for publicity was as uncontrollable as the fire itself. And her hurried press conference didn’t erase her previous statements or the photographs that appeared of her in a mink coat, looking at her private ruins. Hollywood was better when there was less of Gabor and more of Garbo.
The mention of Garbo reminds me that my respect for her increases as time goes by. She knew when to quit. Perhaps Garbo could read the handwriting on the roof tops. Although her last movie, “Two-Faced Woman” (1941), was a flop, she retired the Champ. She knew when to tell M-G-M her final “I tank I go home.” And her old movies on television have made her a big favorite with a new generation. She is especially popular with every young girl in America who wants to be an actress.
I have wondered why Marilyn Monroe, to name a leading example, would want to study acting at the Actors’ Studio. There Mr. Strasberg teaches acting for the stage, not the screen. The technique of stage acting and screen acting is very different. Ask David Wayne, Jason Robards, Jr., Sir Laurence Olivier and they’ll give you the honest answer.
Just standing in the chalk-marked outlines of your feet to play a scene makes a fat difference. So now that you’re a movie star, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Robert Mitchum ( Continued on page 93)
Will the
real Napoleon please SIT DOWN!