Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Los Angeles : End Poverty League
Volume:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Leaf #:
000110
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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106 SODOM AND GOMORRAH "reasonable" to some sex-starved executive, is foisted on the public as an actress. Ninety-nine percent of the chances are that she cannot act. Most girls who get anywhere in Hollywood are those with enough brains to know how to make their beauty serve them to good advantage. Instead of marrying for money, they marry for a career, and, in the event they forget to have a formal ceremony, no matter. This is an enlightened age. It is a regrettable fact that acting talent and beauty are not co-existent. That is why we see so many legs in pictures. The producers seem to believe that a view of a pretty calf will more than compensate the audience for a lack of talent in the leg's owner. Or perhaps the executive wants the audience's approval of his choice. According to a soap advertisement, there are more than four hundred important actresses in the films. Of these, not more than half a dozen are first rate actresses, some ten or twelve are second rate, and all the rest are third and fourth rate players. In a later chapter there is offered an explanation of how all these mediocre or poor players are dished out to the public. Since the cinema audiences have never known much good acting, they are more easily fooled than if they were accustomed to seeing the best talent. When one considers that more than four hundred major features are produced every year and only eight,