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Picture Show, July list, 1920.
MARY rpETl
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REAL actresses are born, not made, and that is why Mary Odette is so perfect in her art. For almost, before she could toddle she developed a passion for dancing. Her parents did not approve, but the desire to trip the light fantastic soon became so marked in the little one, that they eventually gave in to her wishes, and allowed her to receive tuition, with the result that at the age of ten Mary made her first appearance before the public.
Mary was a wonderful little fairy-like creature — in fact, she is now — and was always so happy in her childhood because she was always chosen to take the part of a fairy.
Soon she grew too big to take fairy parts, and then she decided to take lessons in acting. But unite soon the lure of the silent, stage overcame her, and this elfish little person secured an engagement with the Ideal Film Company. .
A Real Fairy.
MARY ODETTE says that she found it very difficult to get used to the continuous clicking of the machine at first, and that she missed the feeling, sympathetic audience that she had grown so accustomed to. But she soon forgot this in her enthusiasm of her part. For therein lies the charm and cleverness of Mary's acting. Some magic wand — perhaps that of the fairies she always represented in her childhood — transforms her into the part that she is playing, and right away her own personality is swamped in her role. It is as though she never was Mary Odette, but only little Florence Dombcy, the down-trodden child in " Dombey and Son," or Caterina, the passionswept heroine, in " Mr. Gilfil's Love Story," the part which was destined to place her in the forefront of her profession. Hence the extraordinary unselfconscious character of her work. Hence its unaffected sheer naturalness, and utter freedom from a single falsa note.
Mary Odette possesses the facial power of expressing emotions — alike the tempestuous and the subtle. She can be ingenuous and frenzied, the bappy lover and the storm-driven woman intent on desperate " remedies.
Perhaps you remember Mary Odette's first appearance on the screen, when she took a nart in The Greatest Wish in the World," the film version of E. Temple Thurston's novel.
A French Maid.
THE excitement and incident in film work so appeals to Mary that she says she does not wish to return to the legitimate stage. Swimming and tennis are this little actress's favourite recreations, although she is so busy at the studio that she has little time to devote to these sports.
Many of you will remember Mary Odette when ehe acted under the name of Odette Goimbault. She decided, however, that the latter name was too difficult for the public, and changed it for its present simple* form.
Mary is a French girl, having been born in Dieppe seventeen years ago. Perhaps this accounts for her wonderful vivacity.
In "John Heriot's Wife.'
In her latest play. " With All Her Heart," MARY ODETTE plays a dual role— that o! Cottie the girl and Ronnie the boy. She makes a wonderful impersonation ot a
boy.
The bridal party leaving the church in " John Heriot'j Wife," MARY ODETTE as the bride.
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