Screenland (Nov 1928-Apr 1929)

SCREENLAND 99 Just a Little Love (Continued from page 55) for talking motion pictures came into being. Bryan Foy, in charge of the short sound features for the Vitaphone, invited her to do a turn before the 'mike' in the role of a song and dance vaudeville star. She did and the result was promptly forgotten. The film was not released to the public for many weeks, but when it was, Bessie Love was finally discovered. Here was the perfect star for the talkies. She had a voice, both for speaking and for singing, a well'trained voice. She had proven dramatic talent and both stage and screen experience. She could dance. She could improvise. She was what the 'talkies' had been looking for. There was a scramble between many companies to bid for her services. MetroGoldwyn-Mayer signed her for the featured lead in "Broadway Melody," an all-dialogue picture, and at its completion gave her a five-year contract, making her one of the important players of that organization. "It's so much fun making talkies!" she says. "It keeps you on your toes every minute. For instance, in some of the scenes in 'Broadway Melody' I was supposed to hum and sing a tune. Well, I couldn't sing anything I knew because there's some sort of rule against it — that is, unless the company has made arrangements to use a popular song in a talkie it can't be used at all. So here I was — making up music as I went along. And you've no idea how hard it was not to let the strains of some current musical hit crop in! All those things make it seem like an almost entirely new business. Much more fun than the old silent pictures! I'm for 'em!" Bessie and her mother come on to New York after the little star completed "Broadway Melody." Bessie told everybody, including me, that she was "going to enjoy a real, good holiday!" "I've worked so hard — all that vaudeville to get experience for talkies; and then working from twelve to eighteen hours every day in 'Broadway Melody,' that I'm worn out, and I'm going to rest." I thought it might be interesting to find out just what method of resting was being selected by this movie girl, to pass on to you. So I asked her for details as to just how she went about relaxing in Manhattan. "Well, you see," said Bessie, "I have my singing lessons here — with Jeanotte, and my dancing lessons with Ned Wayburn, and then I have to practice for hours. Of course I must talk business with my company, too — and there are interviews. And I love to shop and there's no place like New York for that. And I do want to see all the shows and visit a night-club or two." She paused a minute — maybe for breath. And that's your idea of rest?" I gasped. Why, yes!" she smiled. "A change is a rest. New York is so different from Hollywood and I don't want to miss anything! 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