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THE ADULT AND THE CINEMA with my knife and not fork, also films no one in particular have been responsible for my present refined manner. I have adopted the manners of the stars. Films and reading have been responsible for a lot of my Education.
2) Films have never appeared in my dreams.
I don't expect to win a prize but I do hope you will send my letter and photo to Deanna Durbin you can send all this letter and I will be very grateful to you, tell Deanna it is not necessary to marry another star or person of position, love comes to the humblest.
P.S. Nationality of my parents and I is Irish.
2. Miss . . .
Looking through a recent issue of the Picture goer, I read that you want some assistance, so here goes:
Some films have influenced my personal decisions, for instance, the films that Donald O'Connor or Mickey Rooney are in. I often wish that England could have Colleges and Drug Stores, like those in their films. America seems to be a country of fun and games, and I feel discontented when I think of it. On the subject of love, the boys always seem to run after the girls, and find someone to introduce them, before they dare speak to them, but the boys in England never wait to be introduced, they just whistle, and if the girls don't turn round, they think you are 'snobs'. I often wish the boys would treat us as Donald O'Connor treats his girls. I also wish we could go back a few centuries, and the ladies wear beautiful crinolines, and gentlemen wear Cavalier clothes. I am not always discontented after seeing a film, because sometimes I come out of a cinema, with a feeling of utter satisfaction. For instance, after seeing a 'Murder' film, I'm thankful that I'm not involved in a 'Murder', and all the pictures of Japs and Germans torturing I appreciate my freedom.
In answer to the Second question, I remember one instance, that I ever dreamt of a film. It was the film of Gone with the Wind, it kept on haunting me, I enjoyed it very much, but if I had a chance to see it again, I would not go. Every night for about a month, I used to wake up and find myself thinking about it. It was not because my favourite film stars were in it, because Clark Gable nor Vivien Leigh aren't on my 'favourites' list. I also wondered what happened after the end, I used to imagine that when he met her again, he would want to go back with her, and sometimes I imagined that Leslie Howard would go with her. Now, whenever
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