Silver Screen (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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Comment on hairdress, for instance; or clothes, or even a slight change in makeup. After all, it is the fans who are the real critics, so I try to follow their suggestions, if they are reasonable, as much as I can. Some day I'm going to make an effort to meet and thank those t^vo girls in person for writing to me so faithfully. "Speaking of hairdresses, another girl here on this lot has helped a gieat deal, strictly on her own initiative. Her name is Marie Brasselle. She always does my hair. She goes through all sorts of magazines and hunts for new and interesting coiffures. Then she'll build for me a sort of composite coiffure from all those photographs. One side from one picture, a curl or two on top from another, and the back from still another. Some of these effects are marvelous. When I'm working I always get to the studio very early so that I can have my hair \\ashed and set each day before shooting begins. "Incidentally, the time tliat I spend under the dryer is when I try to read all my fan mail, too; but -what I started to say was that no matter how early I get here, she never minds. She says that when my hair looks particularly nice in a picture she gets a grand glow of pride because, no matter if her name isn't mentioned, she has the satisfaction of knowing that she has contributed something to the picture, and has helped me. She certainly has been a real aid, because she has made it possible for me to have as many as four coiffures in one picture. "I think, absolutely, that those people ivho say that people in pictures are not happy unless they are giving someone else, figuratively speaking, a swift kick, are very ivrong. Everyone— from the lowest salaried messenger boy to the biggest director— has ahvays given me better than an even break. Look! I'll give you an example. Just the other day when 1 was working in 'Pennies From Heaven' with Bing Crosby, Monty Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dix off for a well earned vacation, leaving the twins to keep house. Westmore, makeup man, gave me a swell lift. I always apply my own makeup, and generally do a pretty good job. But Montv, who had been watching me, suggested a few changes. I made those changes but they still didn't please him, so he took time out from more pressing work, to show me ivhat he meant. He did it because he really wanted to be a help. As a result my make-up photogi-aphed much better than usual. "There are a lot of others -svho have helped in much the same way. Directors ■who miss their lunch to give a little extra coaching; 'still' men who ^vork o\ertime so that one's pictures wiW be better; people in the -ivardrobe department ^vho, on their own, will freshen up a costume between scenes. All in all I'd say that the studio workers are a very kind group— and thev most certainly have been grand to me. Whe^v!!! . . ." she concluded. "I haven't talked so much in ages. You talk awhile." "Oke," I replied. "Just ans\\er one more question— although it has nothing to do with our premise— and then I'll amscrav. Where did you acquire your accent? It is different from anything I've heard in pictures. Ho^v come?" "Lots of people have asked me that," she replied. "I don't really know, unless it comes from en^'ironment. My parents were born in England, you know, and I suppose that the way I talk is a sort of combination of inherited English, and stage diction— although I've had but very fe^^' lessons in enimciation. Living Avith people does have an effect .upon one's speech, however. I knoA\' an amusing story that has to do ivith accent, by the way. "^Vhen I first came to Metro, five years ago, I -was asked my nationality. I told them that I was born in New York. 'Then get rid of that accent,' they said. 'It won t get you anywhere out here.' That, of course, was years ago. Not so long ago when they ^vere preparing to make 'David Copperfield,' I asked for the part of Agnes in that picture. I adore Dickens— I always have, since I was a child— and since it ^vas a sort of ambition of mine to play that part I asked for a test. Do you know what they told me. They thought that I wasn t English enough— that I didn't have enough of a British accent. They gave me a test anyway— an example of the 'breaks' that they will give one merely for the asking— and as a result I got the part. 'With this proviso. They sent a young man to me— a graduate of Oxford. He was to talk to me an hour every day— in order to perfect mv diction." She laughed aloud, and then suddenly sobered. "Do you know? " she asked thoughtfully, "I'd better add that the }oung man I mentioned is reallv another who has helped me. I pretended that 1 didn't need a tutor because I am English, but* I'll have to confess that he helped me a great deal in creating the role of Agnes.' NVhat Madge E\ans said to me about others inadvertently presented a pretty clear picture of herself— as an individual. If this writer might be permitted to insert a personal opinion, I'd say that she left out a lot of things. The people she has helped, for instance; those to whom she has given a boost over a particularly rough stretch. A very human sympathy and understanding is an essential part of her makeup. AVhat she has done has been done without any fanfare and publicity. The deeds stand for ihcmsches. I won't mention any of I hem because she ^vouldn't like that any !)cticr than being called a "baby star. " She's that kind of a person.