The Picture Show Annual (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1928
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
The Picture Show Annual (1928)
Leaf #:
00045
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book, Global Cinema, and United Kingdom
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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Picture Show Annual Saved from the Saccharine Swamps It wat not to very long ago that when a producer had a role whose chief requirement wat beauty, Florence Vidor, if available, wat immediately cast for it. And the director breathed freely, because he bjtew that he could rely on Florence to play the part at well at it could be played. But, strangely enough, it never teemed to occur to them that the sincerity which the infused into her colourless roles merited better opportunities, and Florence seemed doomed to spend her days and waste her talent in mediocre insipidity until she gently faded from the screen altogether. And then Florence put her foot down. She refused to have anything more to do with the sweet and simple heroine, and announced that the part she wanted was the Duchess in " The Grand Duchess and the Waiter." There was a gasp of astonishment at this announcement. Florence in an adaptation of a French farce I Inconceivable I But Florence had her way, and brought to her role a sparkling vivacity and humour and a wholly irresittuMe charm and poise which silenced her critics and rescued her for ever from the sugary roles of her previous experience. Since then she has played in " Sea Horses," and " You Never Know Women," and won stardom in " Love Magic"