We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
4. WRITERS and staff members flunked out of the bungalow in large numbers through the years—a mortality that was heaviest among the men. In time, women became the core of his organization. "I had a mother that won my admiration/' he once explained, "and I have liked women ever since. We seem to strike a note of understanding. And I like fighting with them and enjoy their reactions/' For years his all-female team—secretaries to film editor—was the envy of the industry. This extraordinary dedication reached a high note during the big quake of 1933, a DeMille secretary leaning out of a second story window when the tremors were at their worst and calling down to her boss, "I have completed the notes on the interview, Mr. DeMille. I will come down now." There was only one major woman director in the film industry and no women producers in the late 1920's. Editing, cutting and decorating of sets were the tasks of men. Not so in the DeMille organization. This was the period of "the nine women." Only one of them was married—Mrs. DeMille. The others were wed to their work, spending their days at the studio and their week nights at the mansion on DeMille Drive in Laughlin Park. The staff luncheons were an institution even then. The women scheduled no social engagements during production, never lunched off the lot. At night they accompanied the boss to his home for dinner, spent the evening looking at "rushes" or movies important to casting. Jeanie Macpherson, Bessie McGaffey, Emily Barrye, Ella King Adams, Anne Bauchens, Gladys Rosson, Dorothy Griwatz, Florence Cole and Constance Adams (Mrs.) DeMille-names 31