Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Volume:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Leaf #:
000130
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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Star-dust in Hollywood folk-tale is this : not one of the interlopers, except perhaps the author himself, is working on the thing for his own intellectual amusement or pleasure ; he is working with his eye on the box-office receipts. Over the heads of almost everyone who touches the plot there looms, like the mummy at the Egyptian feast, the ghosts of the sheriff, the parson, and the flapper of Oshkosh. But the young woman of the States, THE REAL FILM DICTATORS SHERIFF, FLAPPER, AND PARSON that product of English-German-PolishItalianSwedishRussian-Portuguese intermarriage bred in an American climate, is the ultimate dictator of movie art ; you may slip a thing by the sheriff or the parson without affecting financial returns in the least, but she must be satisfied at all costs or the receipts fall off. If folk-tales had been modified in deference to the opinions of the young women of the primitive audiences, folk-tales would not be worth the recording. So Sam Ornitz's tale, had it fallen into the hands of folktellers, might have passed through a hundred variations. At the end it might have been almost unrecognizable as [124]