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He Has to Fight for His Parts!
Though Jean Hersholt, skilled character actor, makes a marked success of every part he plays, he usually has to put up a battle to get each successive one.
By Helen Ogden
As Krauss in "The Goldfish."
JEAN HERSHOLT is the most convincing man in ' pictures.
Every time he applies for a role, he has a battle on his hands. Though his ability as a character actor has often been proven, he invariably has to fight for every part he gets. Each time, the director gives him his role doubtfully, thinking that he is not suited to it, and yet always, before the picture is completed, becomes enthusiastic about his work.
His job of pre-camera convincing began back in the early Ince clays. After several years on the Danish stage, he had come to America in 1915 to attend the World's Fair at San Francisco. Accepting Ince's offer of fifteen dollars a week, he remained, his wife and child with him.
He was playing bits when "The Servant in the House" was scheduled for production. The Christ role offered a wonderful dramatic opportunity, and Flersholt wanted it. Ince thought that he hadn't the essential spiritual quality, but hours of experimenting with make-up and tests finally convinced him.
His insistence upon rehearsing a scene won him the oldest German-son part in ''The Four Horsemen." Called for the
As he appears in "Only the Brave."
In real life he is so unlike the various roles he seeks that directors never believe in advance that he can play them.
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you will In a desperate effort Los Angeles stores for a disreputable suit and derby and spent hours evolving his make-up. Reporting" at the studio, he managed to station himself near the director and glared at him malignantly. Von Stroheim's eyes snapped.
''There is Marcus!" he cried. Continued on page 106
His role in "My Old Dutch." '
As Ed Munn in "Stella Dallas."
second "Tess of the Storm Country," he met with disappointment when Mary Pickford said regretfully that he would not do because he seemed too placid for the energetic fight scenes. Cutting strips from old films showing him in fist-action episodes, he spliced them together, returned to the studio, and asked John Robertson to view them. The director, thus won over, persuaded Mary to give him the chance.
The greatest role of his career, Marcus in "Greed," almost slipped away from him. Seeing "Tess" in S'an Francisco. Von Stroheim had wired instructions to the MetroGoldwyn-Mayer studios to put Hersholt under contract for "Greed."
When they met, the director shook his head and said, "I am very sorry that I had them ennot do. Your eyes are too kind." , Hersholt rummaged the cheaper