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was gently trying to shove him out. But even a passive Englishman can stand so much and no more. One morning, he hurried down to see his agent. "If I don't get some better roles," he demanded in a determined voice, "I'm going to get myself another agent !"
It was an irrevocable edict. But it worked ! At that time the casting for "The Letter'' had already begun. It was Bette Davis' picture. She was to star with Herbert Marshall supporting her. 'William Wyler was to direct. The agent knew Wyler. He rushed over to see him about giving the third important role of the picture to Stephenson. He must have been a darned good agent. For even though Wyler had to wage a bitter battle against the studio executives who insisted on a name actor for the part, Stephenson was given a break.
"By this time," Stephenson confided, as he crossed his long legs and lit a fresh cigarette, "I had been thoroughly fed up. I. too, knew they were looking for someone to play the role of Howard Joyce, the lawyer. I couldn't see the sense of hiring an outside player tor the part when they had me under contract. And what was even more — I wanted to do that role very badly. If you know how we Englishmen feel about Somerset Maugham and his works, you can understand my anxiety."
The first time I saw Stephenson was after the preview of "The Letter." He was acclaimed on all sides by those very people who had recently ignored him. But there wasn't the slightest trace of bitterness in his voice. There wasn't even evidenced the nuance of triumph or cockiness that the average actor would show at having won a point over his studio.
"Never did I dream of the results it would bring." he told me in his pleasant, closeclipped manner. "All this is very surprising." But there was a merry twinkle in his eyes — and even though he is supposed to be a combination of Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper and Fred Perry, the tennis player, James Stephenson reminded me more strongly of Ronald Colman. And like Colman, he' has the same suave, smooth man-of-the-world manner. There is breeding and charm about him. There is an unpretentious sophistication. Yet beneath it all lies a zestful enthusiasm for life and an interest in everything about him.
For a long time. Hollywood didn't think he looked like a film hero. And when he was
told this, he asked. "What docs an actor look like?" In this single, terse sentence, he stumped all of his would-be critics. But a few months later, he had a chance to find the answer for himself. We were waiting in the lobby of the theater for the preview of "Flight from Destiny." The print was late in arriving. But it gave us some fifteen or twenty minutes in which to talk.
"How quickly things change," he said. "A few weeks ago, I could go anywhere without getting a second glance from people. But now, if I want to go shopping I have to go on days when the stores are crowded so that people will overlook me in the throngs. And even if they do recognize me, thev insist on calling me 'the man from The Letter.' "
Among Jimmy's most ardent boosters is Bette Davis. The day after "The Letter" opened she passed by "his table in the dining room of the studio. Laughingly, she threw a batch of newspaper clippings to him. "Here, Jimmy," she said, "these should interest you more than they do me. I'm just the woman in the case." And when he started the first
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