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the Glass Slipper
did not fit into the grand-lady placed her, has reverted to that is better suited to her.
Gebhart
Maybe pickle factories aren't very clean places. Certainly the one in Los Angeles chosen as a location for "Sunny S'ide Up" was not. It was very grimy, and the face and clothes of Sunny Duerow matched perfectly. This is the first film in which De Mille is starring Vera.
Sunny, Vera informed me, when the big lights had shut off their glare and she had climbed expertly over barrels and jars and boxes to my side, works in the pickle factory. Then, on one awful rainy night, she sings on the street to obtain funds for a holiday in the country. Not for herself, for Sunny is a generous little waif, but for her gloomy boy friend, Bert.
After a series of thrilling escapades, Sunny finds hers-elf on the stage in a sparkling revue. Of course, she becomes a sensation overnight, j but in quite an unex pected way She forgets her lines and her steps,
Right— Another view of Vera as the pert young
In a more dressy scene from"Sunny Side Up."
so in desperation, she clowns — and becomes the hit of the show. Through various melodramatic adventures and a snap-bang climax, Sunny dashes, to find happiness eventually with a grand young man.
An amusing little tale, you see, but not at all pretentious. True, Sunny wears glad rags after she makes a success in the show, but they are not drawing-room velvets — they are the fluffy falderals, a bit exaggerated, that a Cinderella of a pickle factory would choose with sudden wealth.
"I was frightfully worried when C. B. said he was ready to star me," Vera admitted, when I cornered her in her dressing room for a luncheon chat between the concluding scenes. "I had been so widely criticized, that it had somewhat dampened my enthusiasm. I had begun to think I wasn't any kind of an actress at all. But Mr. De Mille insisted that my name had a certain drawing power at the box office, and that I was worth risking along a line new for me, and new, too, for him."
A wise man, Mr. De Mille. to admit a mistake and correct it, instead of permitting a good picture possibility to escape his patterned lot. And, realizing that one personality alone cannot carry a production, however light and fluffy it may be, he is surrounding her with a good cast — Edmund Burns, . [Continued on page 96]
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