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"December 19 3 6
color. You never saw anything more flamboyant !
"Color film costs reel, so you don't waste it. You just grab a shot here and there, if you simply can't resist it. You can't duplicate you color film, either, except in black and white ; but you can make as man}' prints of the black \ and-white as you want."
The most fun Chester Morris ever had, according to him, was with a movie he wrote, produced, directed, edited, and starred in.
"If you really want to know what fun can be, just try it !" he recommended, enthusiastically. "My brother Adrian and his wife, Mrs. Morris and I were the cast. I wrote the story, and engaged them, paying them each 25^ a day, whether on location or at home. It had everything in it ! It began with me digging in the Hollywood Hills, and finding a diamond, the largest in the world. It was really a glass doorknob. Then we used a slow motion grind on the camera, so that when it was speeded up in the projector, it looked as if I was running like an Olympic champion up and down hills, in and out of streets, on my way home to show it to my wife.
"It's all crazy. But we show it at parties and people make us bring it over to theirs, and everybody breaks down. Frank Morgan was over last
"If you want to have fun, try this/' says Chester Morris as he divulges pet tricks for making the most of his hobby — "quickies" of family and friends
By Ruth Tildesley
A night and practically rolled on the floor when lie saw it. ■ "Sue — Mrs. Morris — shaved her eyebrows off in the ■I interest of her art and painted exaggerated Garbo eyebrows that went 'way up into her hair. She is nitting baby sox, and the title is: 'Ann, a one-man I zvomaii — and darn sick of it!'
H "Everything you ever heard of is in that picture, war and gold and love and tragedy !
"I have always wanted screen credits, so this being my picture, I get them. The credit sheet says,
Producer Chester Morris
Director Chester Morris
Writer Chester Morris
Editor Chester Morris
Star Chester Morris
"That picture cost $500 before we were through with it, but that was silly. I took the angles of each scene and then cut them out — had more film on the cuttingroom floor when I finished than I had in the picture. I could do it again for a fraction of the cost.
"If you think you'd like to get somewhere in Hollywood, there's lothing I know of more illuminating than making your own movie in your own way."
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Brooks and Cynthia, the Morris children, Chester's choice for stars of his es. Above, making a home-life scene; two shots enlarged from one of his reels; and at left, Chester cutting and editing one of his home-made film epics. Some fun!