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A SCREEN HERO IS MADE
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Cary Grant claims to know the reason behind Hollywood's shortage of leading men. Says the popular actor: “Take a look at this camera record of what a leading man has to go through. Then tell me why any man with a modicum of sense wouldn't prefer some good, hard, honest labor?”
Having emerged (all in one piece!) from the filming of Warner Bros.’ comedy hit," Arsenic and Old Lace,” in which he stars, Cary is firm in the belief that screen heroes are made, not born. For proof, he offers the accompanying photographic record of what he endured for art’s sake.
To aspiring film heroes, Cary names three necessary requisites for success, based, he
says, on painful—very painful—experience. They are: a stout heart, a strong constitution
and, above all, an extraordinary resistance to physical disaster.
1. “There’s nothing like starting a day’s work right,” says Cary as he freshens up prior to facing the camera. Where most leading men would have to worry about camera angles, the star of “Arsenic and Old Lace” had no such concern. Hollywood's cameramen agree that from any angle he looks good to the femme fans.
2. “Producer-Director Frank Capra is a oneman blockade when it comes to making changes he doesn’t approve,” Cary explains. “So it wasn’t disrepect for a fighting opponent that made me look twice at the scene he had mapped out for me that day. It was downright incredulity.”
6. “The next thing I knew, Capra took that big guy, Jack Carson, and gave him special boxing lessons — with my chin as the punching bag. i ask you—how much can a man learn if his opponent’s bound and gagged?”
3. “In fact, when I realized Capra wasn’t kidding, I let him have it. ‘After all, I argued, ‘I’m a leading man. You can’t do this to me! I won’t have it! I’ll take it up with the Warners! I’ll
. Well, I simply refused to play the scene.”
1. ““Listen,’ I said when they finally undid the gag. ‘How much can a leading man take? I’m finished. I quit. Let me out of here!’ No sooner said than done. In another minute, I was not only down—I was out.”
4. “As I was saying, Capra is a fighting man. You see what I mean?”
5 s “We played that scene, all right. And we added a lot more that wasn’t in the script, too. Now that I look back on it, I don’t think I’d have minded so much if it weren't for something I
9. “Believe it or not,” concludes the star, “we finished the film, my dignity notwithstanding!” And here Cary is shown leaving
the studio after a full day’s work, proving learned all the way back in g. “There are four lunatics in ‘Arsenic and that, after all, anything can—and usually does my early vaudeville days. A Old Lace,’ but you can take my word for it —happen in an actor’s life. It’s all in the day’s leading man has got to keep —I’m not one of them,” vows Cary. “Or, on work, folks. Now, who was it who said somehis dignity. What I want to second thought, what do you think?” thing about wanting to be a leading man?
know now is, how?”
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