A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
000124
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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110 THE TWENTIES The much-loved Will Rogers came by his screen career honestly, for he served part of his apprenticeship in the school that also graduated Lupe Velez, Jean Harlow, and Janet Gaynor— the Hal Roach Studios. Here he is in a Roach comedy. ABOVE RIGHT Dustin Famum's brother, William, had had a no less distinguished career as an actor, beginning with spear carrying for Booth and Barrett. His first picture was The Spoilers, which he followed with a series of Westerns for Selig. Fox offered him $1000 a week and at the height of his career paid him ten times that sum. One of his most successful vehicles was If I Were King, released by Fox in 1920. BELOW LEFT Another Fox production of 1920 was Over the Hill, a picture version of Will Carleton's lachrymose Over the Hill to the Poorhouse, advertised, somewhat diffidently, by the Fox press department as "the greatest human drama of all time." Mary Carr and Johnny Walker are here helping to make it so. BELOW RIGHT They say that press agents make stars. They can help, but they can't do the job unaided. Some press agent decided that the way to make Patty Dupont a star was to call her, simply, "Miss Dupont." This, he argued, would envelop her personality in a veil of mystery and intrigue, and the public would flock to see her. The public may have been mystified, but it refused to flock. 1 1 1 ;■ ■ irf • % A 1 1*4 'k M zsSs&S. ■»» J^ c P»* '"5 ^C ' -Emm m m