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Meet Eleanor Parker with the face of an angel and the emotions of a — well, read this colorful story and you'll understand why she was chosen to re-create the role of Mildred, first made famous by Bette Davis, in "Of Human Bondage"
WHEN Eleanor Parker was nine, she bit a neighbor's child in the I arm and thereby qualified in
stantly for her future role as the contemptible Mildred in "Of Human Bondage."
It wasn't so much the actual bite, but the emotional punch behind it that gave Eleanor the inside track when Warner Bros, got around to casting the picture. As a "lydy" Mildred is the type of gal every mama prays her daughter won't grow up to be, but as a prize acting plum it is just plain manna from youknow-where.
It wasn't possible to ee-liminate the negative (courtesy Johnny fiercer) overnight, and doubts reared their inquisitive and ugly phizzes as to Eleanor's ability to make the grade in such a potent drayma. Even Edmund Goulding, the director, was completely indifferent to the decision of the studio heads, and has been quoted by the usually unreliable source as having said.
Smouldering scenes such as this, right, between Eleanor Parlcer and Paul Henreid, will make "O^ Human Bondage" one of Warner Bros.' most talked-about movies. Below, the Parker gal caught off-guard between scenes.
with a frightening lack of emotion, when Miss P. breezed by: "Don't look now, but — there goes the girl they want me to direct in 'Of Hum;ui H(]n<lage.' " His second quote — and a more author-, itative one — was recorded in the annals exactly two seconds flat after he wound up our gal's first test for the role. Said Mr. Goulding: "This girl has the finest native talent since Garbo. ' He promi)tly
])roved his point by corraling every likely character in the vicinity and hauling him into the projection room to view the test. Eleanor sold herself before she even started by proving the old wheeze "seeing is believing."
Doris Lloyd, Cockney coach, houndefl her for weeks to make sure she caught the right inflections for Mildred's nasty fPlea.se turn to pat/e 7W
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