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Dumbest Actors
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Rats taught to have no fear of man played with John Barrymore in "Don Juan," and with Syd Chaplin in "The Better 'Ole." A bobcat appears in "The Rough Riders," and a mountain lion in "The Man of the Forest," with Jack Holt. A crowing rooster helped provide one of the best gags in Harry Langdon's "Long Pants."
Minnie, the mouse, is one of the most popular of the four-legged stars. Persons who saw the rodent romp through "The Campus Flirt" probably marveled at the almost uncanny intelligence and the absence of fear the little animal exhibited.
In the film she was saved from the horrors of the dissecting table by a college janitor who rescued her from a medical class, and she took up her home in his coat pocket. On one of her tours of investigation she started exploring Bebe Daniels' hosiery, much to the latter's disapproval. Then, just as Bebe was set for a race in a track meet, Minnie nipped her on the ankle, and Bebe, forgetting all else, ran screaming down the cinder path to victory. Minnie made that piece of comedy. Without her the scene would have flopped.
When MetroGo 1 d w y n -Mayer was filming in the Bahamas the undersea sequences of "The Mysterious Island," the location camp was swept into the sea by a hurricane. The players sought refuge in potholes among the coral reefs, spending an entire night in utter darkness, while a terrible wind ripped vegetation from its moorings and hurled tons of sea water over the key. Into the pothole occupied by Charles R. Stallings, production manager, there crawled a huge iguana. An iguana has the shape of a lizard. Its body is about the size of a cat's, and it has a tail a foot or two long. It looks something like a baby alligator to a sober man, and possibly like a crocodile to one in his cups. Its bite is not poisonous, but it has fanglike teeth, and claws worthy of a badger.
Stallings trapped the iguana the morning after the hurricane and sent it to the M.-G.-M. studio in California. Promptly it was assigned a role in John Gilbert's "The Show," and it permitted Marjory Williamson, in the role of a snake charmer, to handle it. The reptile has become very tame.
Fred Thomson's cockatoo made her debut in "Don Mike," and will play in other pictures.
Doves were trained to flutter and alight in the right place in "The King of Kings."
Harry Langdon used an alligator in "Long Pants." Sticks his hand into a box where the "gel" is supposed to be hiding, and grabs. Lets go quickly when the 'gator barks or growls or does whatever alligators do when annoyed.
Director Melville Brown served up a good scene with ants for Reginald Denny in "Slow Down."
"You see," the director confided to Denny, "y°u are driving an automobile in a race. Just at the crucial moment, a flock of ants crawl out from under your seat and start biting your shoulders and back. See? You begin squirming around and your wild driving threatens to upset the car. Get the idea?
"Yeah !" Reginald replied, sardonically. "The gag is, you're going to invite a bunch of maneating ants to have dinner between my shoulder blades. That's a great idea of yours ! You can think up lots of funny things, can't you? Any