Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1923 - Feb 1924)

A Fig for Fame Continued from page 59 Ford is different. vVhen you meet the debonair Cody, mustachios sharpened to a pinpoint, >pats spic and span, manner suave and surer than the Rock of Gibraltar, you say to yourself, "How extraordinary!" You find yourself looking at a character straight from the celluloids. Lew Cody is of the profession, markedly. Harrison Ford might be a lawyer, or a civil engineer, or a realtor. Or he might be a Yale man looking for a job. He has the appearance of youth, although he is a veritable veteran of the movies ; he's quiet ; and not unlike Conrad Nagel, he refuses to grow indignant over anything. His is a placid mood, his a pacific temperament. Hoping to start something, I supposed that it was pretty trying to act opposite some star-stellas. But he maintained the same untroubled calm. "I'm paid to act, and I do whatever is expected of me," he said. "The star is the star. I'm simply support. Why should I expect star chances ?" "But they shoot half your stuff with your back to the camera, don't they?" I persisted. "No," said Ford mildly. "I've always found stars very fair and generous. You see, acting is my profession, and I don't mix my ego with it. It wouldn't trouble me if I had to go through a whole picture with my back to the camera. Really it wouldn't." The Talmadges he found most delightful to work with. Constance has the sense of humor that makes work a pleasure, while Norma has the sincerity that makes genuine artistry possible. "Hugo Ballin I found most interesting as a director. We recently did 'Vanity Fair.' He gets tremendous effects on the slightest actual sets, using light and shade." Ford does not confine his interests to pictures. Art is one of his diversions, and books — good books— another. He had finished Drinkwater's "Robert E. Lee" and was starting "Disenchantment." Apparently there is nothing that he does not read. 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