The stars (1962)

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Record Details:

Title:
The stars
Date:
1962
Publisher:
New York : Bonanza Books
Volume:
The stars
Leaf #:
000155
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:
August 29, 2024
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shown her the true meaning of life. mannerism and spirit, which is perhaps a sin as well as a pity. ... I have a feeling that Miss Davis must have a great deal of trouble finding films which seem appropriate, feasible and worth doing, and I wish that I, or anyone else, could be of use to her in that. For very few people in her position in films mean, or could do, so well. But I doubt that anything could help much unless she were willing to discard much that goes with position — unless, indeed, she realized the absolute necessity of doing so." This is probably as full and fair a statement of the artistic dilemma in which Miss Davis found herself in the middle and late forties as could be made. An individualist and a potential talent of the first rank, she devoted herself to an industry that loathes the first and pays only lip service to the second. Now, without the position she once had, she seems to be living with the artistic daring she once fought for, then seemed to lose after she achieved the status she also craved. She remains a great lady, one of the very few who dared and succeeded at the grand manner in a movie age that did not appreciate it. Storm Center, one of the succession of poor recent films which Davis has illuminated by her presence. In this one she played a librarian fighting to save her books from the censors. 149