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 #:
000190
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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18t> SODOM AND GOMORRAH brings down upon his head the wrath of a temperamental star or director. Either stellar or directorial displeasure has a fatal effect on his ° There are any number of cases in which such a tragedy has happened, for the occurrence is almost a daily event in one studio or another. One of the more recent examples is a case which attracted comment in the movie columns of sever* newspapers. It concerns a star whose rise in the enema she owes more to vice than talent, and who is unusually smitten with her own charms which includes an intelligence existing solely in her fancy. The victim is an elderly actor whose deplorable financial state won him the sympathy of a studio executive. He was given a small part in this woman's picture. The work was so opportune as to be almost a miracle. But the actor had one unpardonable tault. His education was vastly superior to the star's. Consequently, he pronounced with a short a a word the star had made broad. Although a rebuke was the farthest thing from his mind, the actress took offense at the way he pronounced it, and ^flew into a tantrum. "Use a broad 'a'!" she bawled at him It required several minutes to calm her, and then the scene was repeated. Having for years pronounced the word according to Webster, the actor forgot himself and "mispronounced it a few minutes later. The spoiled woman quivered