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NOVEMBER 1924
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who have not learnt how to live gloriously. She turns up ■ pretty lb at conventional virtue. She has no in hibitions, nor any regard for bn that generations before ber and around her have set up. Will she find a per nianent place among the real artists on the screen? Or will she — like so many others before her — find that her very success is her undoing? Somehow I think she is made of the stuff that will laugh at that Bogey. Marie will do what she pleases
E. R. Thompson.
Right : A photo of Marie Prevost in her Mack SennettX Days.
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ducer's task to turn to advantage and beauty. If he can't do it — well, who can blame Marie? She has given of her best.
Tt was not until Ernst Lubitsch came along that Marie'really came into her own. She had made a number of pictures since leaving the Sennett fold, all competent, all lively, none of them of any particular value either to art in general or to Marie Prevost's art in particular. There was Siren Stuff, The Married Flapper, and The Beautiful and Damned. There were others. But not until LubitSch arrived at the Warner Brothers studio was there anything of real importance.
He came. He saw Marie. He watched her work. He went straight out and said that there were not many great actresses in America, but that little Marie Prevost was right at the top of the list. Nobody had thought of that before. Marie had been regarded as a pretty, useful girl with plenty of spirits and ability; a good all-round player with many advantages as an athlete. But a great actress — !
However, Lubitsch was quite clear about it. He went all round Hollywood and New York looking at other screen actresses; he even directed Mary Pickford; and he always came back to Marie. He said he would make good his word if they gave him the chance. He asked for Marie in the leading part of The Marriage Circle. And he got her.
"W/hat followed is common know™ ledge. As the flirtatious, cunning little wife who coveted her friend's husband, and ended up by catching her friend's husband's friend, she played one of the biggest parts of the film year in the biggest possible way. Lubitsch made good his claim. Marie made good her reputation. The German producer has
Circle : Marie and director Bcaudine burning the evidence. (She was once one of Mack Sennetfs star Bathing Beauties).
had plenty of practice with temperaments, after many years of work in Berlin with the queen of temperamental actresses, Pola Negri, and he knew just how to control that lively nature of Marie's, how to press nature into the service of art, how to balance her petulance with her pleading, her passions with her pride. He made Marie represent to America very much what Pola represents to the world.
""Phe Marie Prevost of The Marriage Circle, and again of Three Women, her latest picture under Lubitsch's banner, is, like Marie herself, a true child of life. She does what she wants, she says what she pleases. She flashes from laughter to fury, from boredom to tense enjoyment; she has a fine scorn. Her understanding of the art of living is complete and startling, and has bred no tolerance but rather a keen irony, which mocks the small misfortunes and accidents of ordinary people
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