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 #:
000143
Language:
English
Collection:
United Kingdom, Global Cinema, and Year Book
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 yt's,(2haraeteif Ua& GountR AND THESE FINE ARTISTS PORTRAY MANY a film that has been let down by its hero and heroine has been saved by its character actors and actresses. They are not only the backbone of the pictures but very often the brains as well, and the reason is not hard to find. They have that ability which comes from experience. Practically every one has a long stage training behind him or her, a stage training which included playing in stock company, that best of all schools for the actor. Many of them were matinee idols before the young film stars of to-day were born, and like wise men and women they did not attempt to hide age behind grease paint, but accepted Father Time's ruling and took to character parts. In the early days of the pictures the character actor was looked upon merely as a background, bnt with better pictures we have got more discerning directors, and the ca ing of a character part is now approached with as much consideration as the choosing of a star. Indeed, most of the leading Vera Gordon, well known for interpretations of Jewish roles Ford Sterling, who discarded his comic little beard when he stepped out of slapstick comedy, with Bebe Daniels in " Stranded in Paris."