Screenland ((Jan–Jun 1947))

The Town's Be-Guild Continued from page 53 immediately put to work on the university daily, where she inaugurated a series of special features. She selected outstanding girls on the campus and compiled a symposium of their study methods. Cunningly, she selected only those girls who were dreamboats, but who also maintained high scholastic averages. Because Nancy has always been deeply interested in photography, and because her reportorial beat coincided with that of a man on the Tucson Daily, Nancy came to know many professional newsmen well. This man was also the Arizona representative for Life Magazine, so when he received word from the publication's New York office that five universities were to be scanned pictorially for a story on how college girls were putting to use their souvenirs from G.I. beaus, it was only natural for him to ask Nancy to participate. The rest is history. So energetically did Nancy enter into the spirit of securing this picture layout that it was decided to focus the article entirely on the University of Arizona. One fact was kept a secret, however. Not until Nancy had come back to Hollywood on her summer vacation did she learn— by confronting herself in multicopy on the newsstands — that her picture was to be used on the cover. Nancy has never fainted in her life. She didn't faint on the spot then, either. But she attributes this only to the stamina developed by her athletic childhood. As a result of her debut as a cover girl, Nancy received over three thousand letters from men and girls scattered all over the world. Of this number she energetically answered fifty, before the spectacle of the postman ringing not twice but twenty times a day overwhelmed her with a sense of utter futility. Nancy is still corresponding with one of the original congratulators, a man who invited her to last spring's Yale Prom. She planned at first to go, but 20th V picture schedule forestalled the trip. In addition to her sudden flood of mail, Nancy received — on the afternoon of the magazine's newsstand appearance —a telephone call from an official at 20th Century-Fox. After a few sentences, Nancy covered the receiver with her flat hand and told her mother, "This man would like to talk to you and me this afternoon about a motion picture contract. Shall I tell him that I still have three years of university before me?" "I think you could gain as much practical knowledge by working at the studio two months as you would get from two years of university training," she said. "At least, it's worth a try." So Nancy signed her 20th contract late that afternoon. During the next three' days she and her mother took turns explaining to talent scouts from other studios that Miss Guild regretted she would be unable to lunch that day. Nancy's reading had been devoted mainly to fiction and biographies, so she had escaped the widely-published fact that the instant a girl is signed by a studio she is subjected to intensive cultivation. Ordinarily, as you know, she is dieted, given diction lessons, dancing lessons, a course in interpretive technique, and sometimes rudimentary lessons in one or two foreign languages are also added. In Nancy's case, nothing was done at all, because the studio wanted to experiment with the camera values of unmodified naturalness. As a result, when she was given the script for "Somewhere in the Night," she attacked the problem exactly as if she were cramming for a final. She hopped into bed early and memorized two or three pages more than the director had assigned. She was determined to smack the course for an "A" or know the reason why. Director Joseph Mankiewicz, somewhat nonplussed by the spectacle of his "natural" actress reciting lines as if they were mathematical formulae, questioned her. After Nancy's explanation, he assured her that the lines were the least of her worries. He wanted her, not to rely upon rote memory, but to think her way through the dialogue and the action. So that night Nancy didn't study her lines at all. She just turned in very early. The next day's shooting was almost as difficult as her previous experience, because she was totally unprepared for everything that developed. Even so, John Hodiak told an interviewer during the early days of the picture's shooting, "This new girl, Nancy Guild, is a natural. She doesn't have any idea how valid her reactions are, nor how stimulating she is to work with. I personally think that she is going to be a great actress." 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