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right ! gosh-awful
Just to Entertain You!
The players have to undergo some strange and often disagreeable experiences to get laughs and thrills into the pictures.
By A. L. Wooldridge
£~>) OME day, the irate daddy or ^\ husband of a movie star is going to lead some director to some secluded ocean pier, tell him to look down at the pretty little fishes and then he's going to push ! And he's going to shout as the body hurtles into the brine :
"Now I guess you'll quit mistreatin' my gel !"
And it probably would serve him They are doing the most things to the movie stars these days. Directors don't seem to have any respect for the dignity supposed to surround screen royalty.
All to entertain you ! Then some movie queen gets squashed in the eye with a ripe tomato, or some one busts a watermelon over her head, flings her into a synthetic swamp or has her chased by a bench-legged bulldog" or a bull.
All to entertain you !
Think of Gloria Swanson, the marquise, being hung up by the seat of her trousers — male attire — in "Stage Struck !" Gloria never hung that way before. And if her trousers hadn't been substantially reinforced at the hanging place, she wouldn't have hung there long. She put a lot of reliance in those pants and probably prayed she hadn't misplaced her confidence. And she hadn't. The trousers were equal to the occasion. There she dangled — the heroine of "Manhandled," "Her Love Story," "Society Scandal," " Madame Sans-Gene," and so on. The "Divine Gloria!"
And Mary Pickford, the queenly lady of "Rosita" and "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall" — think of sending her oozing down into a pond of tadpole water, mud up to her knees, totin' a child on her back and carrying another in her arms ! "America's Sweetheart !" So dirty when she came out they washed her off with a hose before they let her into her dressing room. That was in "Sparrows" (first called "Scraps"). And that isn't all. Mary, walk
Mary Pickford had to be washed off with a hose before going to her dressing room after the mud bath she took in "Sparrows."
ing a straight-and-narrow path across the synthetic swamp built in the studio lot, found the path not too straight, but too narrow, and she sloughed off a second time. She sloughed in till the mud got into her hair and the child on her back was yelling for a raft. They had to be helped out, and were a sorry sight.
All to entertain you ! It appears as though directors believe worlds of art are subtly submerged in water. Monta Bell, for instance, espied a chuck hole on the Metro-GoldwynMayer lot filled with water which looked like it came in with the flood of 73. It offered possibilities.
"Here," he said, "is where I put a wonderful punch in 'Lights of Old Broadway!"' This'll knock 'em dead !" So he called for cameras and lights and assistance. Then he called Marion Davies and George K. Arthur.
"We're going to make a whale of a
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There is no other profession in the world which would require one of its leading representatives to do anything so absurd as was required of Gloria Swanson in "Stage Struck. "
scene," he said. "We're goi duck vou both in that water !"