The Picture Show Annual (1931)

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Picture Show Annual 133 " The Green Goddess ' is identified with the personality of George Arliss, for besides playing the role of the Rajah in the stage play, he starred in the silent version, made in 1924. with David Powell, Harry Morey and Alice Joyce in the leading roles, and in the talkie, made in 1930. with Ralph Forbes. H. B. Warner and Alice Joyce once more as the leading lady. The censoring difficulty, producers found, grew much greater with the introduction of talkies. If a silent film failed for political or other reasons, to pass the censor, a little judicious re-titling and re-editing, and a new picture could appear. Talk! es do not allow of this. A picture once made is unalterable. Although an entire scene may be taken out, the theme cannot very well be altered, as it could in the old silents, and in choosing the silent film hits that had had no difficulty over the theme m passing the censor, the producers knew there would be no hitch. Otherwise, they might have hesitcied to produce " Anna Christie," considering the fate of Gloria Swanson's silent " Sadie Thompson which was not permitted to be shown as " Rain.' Corinne Griffith starred in the silent version of " Mile. Modiste," with No rman Kerry as the debonair young officer who falls in love with the pretty shopgirl. In the talkie version, Ber- nice Claire takes Corinne's role, with Walter Pidgeon, one of the silent film heavies " whom sound raised to hero roles, instead of Norman Kerry Backstage stories are not among the redone pictures. The backstage story was a product of the micro- phone. It was an atmosphere natural to the new stars, and new to audiences, but there soon came a surfeit of them, and it was then that producers, racking their brains for material and realising that after the first novelty of the talkie had worn off, "anything" would not go, turned to stories that had been proved successes in the past, and, with the addition of dialogue and song, an- ticipated another success.