The public is never wrong (1953)

Record Details:

Title:
The public is never wrong
Date:
1953
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putman's Sons
Volume:
The public is never wrong
Leaf #:
000110
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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8 M UCH depended on striking while the iron was hot, and we began hitting some blows heard throughout the industry. The grand lady of the American stage, Minnie Maddern Fiske, went before the camera. So did the world's most celebrated beauty, Lily Langtry, and a second matinee idol, James O'Neill. Mrs. Fiske was reputed to be hard to work with, and we expected temperamental eruptions when she and Porter faced one another. They got along fine. Much of the picture Tess of the D'Urbervilles was made at her country home. Although Mrs. Fiske was still a year or two under fifty, and Porter was himself in his middle forties, he spoke of her as "the Old Lady/' This referred, I think, more to her dignity than to her age. They ended with respect for each other. When James O'Neill played The Count of Monte Cristo for us, he was in the autumn of his years as a matinee idol. He must have been even older than James Hackett, for his son, Eugene O'Neill, after some years of 90