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22 2 Ways to Film Success
It was early in 1932 tliat Sinclair Hill put me into The First Mrs. Fraser to play opposite Joan Barry, and it is from that moment that I personally feel my successful screen career should date, for it was then that I began to feel an ease and certainty in my work. Joan is sympathetic, charming, altogether delightful, and playing opposite her made the weeks spent on The First Mrs. Fraser an uninterrupted pleasure. Since then we have been cast together several times, notably in the British Lion film Sally Bishop, and I hope that our partnership will continue far into the future.
I entered lilms by chance : I returned to them by hard work and study in the theatre ; and I hope to remain in them for the pleasure that the work gives me.
"I WAS AN ARTIST'S MODEL"
—by GWILI ANDRE
(Radio Player)
TJERE 1 am in Hollywood where, they tell me, I have been an -^ -■ immediate success. They tell me I am another Garbo. They tell me I am another Dietrich. They tell me I am a star.
Personally I am a little dazed. It has all been so rushed and rather like a dream, this excursion from the life I used to lead in New York into the glare and hustle of the world of films. A few months ago my life consisted of staying stiU for long periods. Now I seem to do nothing but move about the whole time. A few months ago I was an artist's model ; now I am a film artiste.
If there is a royal road to success on the films I suppose I have trodden it, but I am afraid it is not one along which others can follow, unless they, too, can command the colossal shares of good fortune which first put my feet on the way.
I belong by birth and upbringing to the world of art and artists. I was born in Copenhagen and lived for years with my father who is a jeweller and quite a successful painter. I cannot tell you how often he used to do portraits and sketches of me, but I grew quite used to " sitting " as his model during the years of my childliood. Then, a little over three years ago an aunt of mine, who lives in Florida, invited me to stay. I jumped at the invitation and, after some months of playing in the sun, my aunt took me to New York.
Quite soon I had made up my mind to remain there, and I looked lor work. The one thing I knew was how to sit still, and so I was able to get jobs modelling for artists. In a short time my daj's were fuUy occupied with this work, and I suppose my face and figure have appeared on the covers of most American magazines. There is good money to be earned in this w'ay. Not long before I came to Hollywood I was making as much as 500 dollars a week. Indeed, I suppose it was only the thirst for new adventure and new experience that made me accept the movie offer when it did come, for the rewards were not so great.
In America they have a term " take you for a ride," which comes fron? gangster slang and means that one is taken on a trip against one's will (usually with an unpleasant ending). I was " taken for a ride "