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rhey gave Clive Brook that title
because he is one of the few lucky stars
who commenced their careers at the
top of the movie tree.
Lucky stars are hard to find, but Clive Brook, who within the space of two years has risen to be one of the foremost of British screen actors, must have been born under a whole constellation of them.
He is perhaps the only actor in British screenland who made his screen debut in a star role. The drudgery of crowd and small part work he has never known. With Trent's Last Case he stepped right into the film limelight, and its rays have played strongly upon him ever since.
His have usually been sympathetic roles, and to him as the hero, have :ome the heroines with all their troubles and woes. Always have they found in Brook a champion of their cause, and usually he has made sacrifices for them.
From the convention-bound characters he played in several costume films, Brook found himself with a part which allowed him to give full play to his emotions in Sania.
Brook then advanced in seven-league boots, leaving his competitors for screen honours far behind. During the past eighteen months he has played
Clive had a thrilling time in "Out to Win."
with Fay Compton in This Freedom, with Catherine Calvert in Out to Win, in Through Fire and Water, in The Reverse of the Medal, with Betty Compson in Woman to Woman, The White Shadow, and The Royal Oak, and his most recent work has been done in The Money Habit, and the Goldwyn production, The Recoil. This latter film gives Brook bigger acting opportunities than any other film in which he has appeared. No other British film actor has starred in so many productions in which well-known American artistes have been featured.
Brook is one of the most reticent of screen actors. Of himself he will talk little or not at all — over his work he enthuses because he is gradually achieving an ambition which he has long cherished.
Whilst admitting that luck secured for him his debut in a leading role, he declares that it has meant exceedingly hard work and quite a lot of personal
Above With Betty Compson in " Woman to Woman." Left : In " Through Tire and Water." Above : An evcry-day pose.
sacrifice to reach the position he now holds.
Frequently he has worked in two productions concurrently, which has meant 18 hours before the camera each day, during six of which he has been longing to return to his own fireside.
Brook takes infinite care of the smallest detail relating to his characterisations, and frequently he declares that when he sees himself on the screen he feels that his work is so bad that he would like to have the opportunity of making the film all over again.
Lucky for picturegocrs it is that Brook's life is heavily insured, for his favourite hobby is motoring and although he has not yet been convicted of " exceeding the speed limit," he admits it is more by luck than good management. His part in Out to Win, strenuous as it was, came as a welcome change to him after the quiet, selfreliant characters he had enacted in so many films. However, The Recoil meant everything, for in it he has bigger opportunities for acting than have ever been afforded him before.