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Which Cost More?
to me as actually getting the part; just the fact that he had been thinking of me for it.
My chances for getting that role, however, were soon dimmed by the prospect of a package deal with a different studio.
“I’m sorry, Joan ... I would have liked to work with you,” Mr. Curtiz said. And my keen disappointment was assuaged by the fact that a great director like Mr. Curtiz would have liked to work with me.
THINKING I had lost the part, Mother and I packed up and headed back to New York to spend the Christmas holidays with my father and sister. The four of us then left for North Carolina to visit my married sister and see her new baby. We were motoring down and stopped off for the night at the John Marshall Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.
We had just registered, when I was paged by long distance for a call from Mike Curtiz asking me to return to the coast immediately for the lead in his picture. I couldn’t imagine how he’d found me, since nobody in Hollywood knew where I was. He’d called New York, gotten the message that I was en route to North Carolina and might spend the night in Richmond, and had promptly put in a call to every hotel there.
There are so many factors that can change your future, some less happily. Like acquiring affectations, losing one’s naturalness, and dropping a certain sense of dignity.
It’s hard to keep from getting a little spoiled, with all the attention you receive; hairdressers fussing around you, wardrobe girls waiting on you, a make-up man repairing your make-up, the entire key personnel of an entire studio eternally looking out after you. To me, nobody is more repulsive than a spoiled woman. Consequently, I’m constantly underplaying, to the point of almost seeming inhibited. Which, of course, is equally bad.
As a challenge to myself I’d like to some day portray a screen character like Sadie Thompson. Complete with loud manners, wild clothing, garish make-up, spike heels, spangled jewelry, and gobs of chewing gum.
If I can play Sadie successfully, I’ll have reached another movie milestone. And it will be high time for another checkup with Caulfield, for anything could happen from there on.
The End
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Joan Caulfield, with best friend Benav Venuta, and Benay’s daughter Debbie. Both girls are expert tennis players and got in a few games while in Palm Springs