Judge — August 2, 1930 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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ocumeNTs toward a projected metaphysical, philosophical and biological study of the movie actor, culled by my bootblack from various fan magazines, newspaper in- terviews, published correspondences and linotyped personal confidences and confessions: “I don't feel that I’ve used any great amount of brains.” — Norma Shearer. “My grandmother, she ‘ave twenty- two children. My mother, she ‘ave thirteen, For me—oh, mon Dieu—I ‘ope I two—well, maybe three or four. Baby I adore. I want to be married. Oh, ‘ow I love to be mar- ried. If I marry, it weel be to ‘ave beeg family. I love keeds."—Fifi Dorsay. “I've worked with directors at their homes until three and four o'clock in the morning. Incidentally, I've never had a door locked on me yet, like the heroine in the second act of the melo- drama. What experiences the tresses have, I don’t know. But I can speak for myself and the rest of the women scenario writers.”—Sada Cowan. “I am considered quite deep by others."—Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. “At times I feel unde the desert’s Gray. the spell of —Alerander mysticism had at least a high-school education, and one which brought her reasonably excellent marks for application and scholar- ship, any girl, no matter how beau ful, is subject to immediate elimina- tion from any roll of movie candi- es.""—Cecil B. De Mille. and fame and worldly wis- not necessarily the levers which lift. people to happiness.”— Estelle Taylor. “There is a biological difference between the sexes, and all the contro- versy in the world never gets beyond that point.”"—Ronald Colman. “Unless she h: “Money dom are “The urge of women to bear chil- © ALTE » GEORGE J JUDGE O dren is the same urge today as it was in the Garden of Eden.""—Ditto. “I always want to be happy. That is what I try always to be. I try to plan my life in such a way that I will always be happy."—Billie Dove. “Beauty is not enough for me.”— Ditto. “Young people are prone to be un- certain as to what it is they want.”— Raymond Hackett. You have been chosen one of the most popular movie stars by the co- eds of Stanford University.” When I received that telegram, I’ really thrilled—and proud. This kind of distinction comes seldom! Need I say more than: I hope to live up to the honor you have accorded me Clive Brook, “When I feel like opening mouth and screaming, I can. the reason I've always bel can lead a very | nd mentaliy."— my That's ed that thy life, dmund “Believe me, it is not the most rep- rehensible thing in the world when a man desires to kiss 4 girl other than his wife.”—Ditto. “I think that one thing that makes for health in American girls is their small quantity of clothing.”—Joan Craveford. “T am a better person in the air. Bigger. Broader-minded. I think bigger thoughts.”—Ben Lyon. “Tam glad I am twenty-nine. Why woman lie about her age, should a anyway? get A woman doesn't bi until ; around thirty. Gosh, I wouldn't be twenty any sense she’s in for any amount of mone was the goofiest kid you ever saw vays falling in love with every moon- faced sap, bellhop or soda squirt I laid eyes on. I'd go in a soda foun- tain and eat chocolate sundaes all afternoon just so I could make eyes at some kid without any chin. I'd ride up and down in an elevator all day just so I could listen to the dizzy 148 LAIRE NATHAN line of some pimply-faced elevator boy with brass buttons on his coat.”"— Winnie Lightner. “Individual actors never interested me. It was the roles they played that interested and fascinated me."—Greta Garbo, “Girls are pretty much alike aft you have known them about a week.” —David Rollins. “The first quality I think women should have is sincerity, and it's very hard to find."—Stanley Smith. “I waited long to meet the Great Cheiro (the fortune-teller) and I can't tell how wonderful this meeting has been for me.”—Mary Pickford. “Men hate me, but women are in- terested. It is repressed masochism.” —Eric von Stroheim. “Whatever is done or whatever is not done in Hollywood, there is a greatness about ‘it that tells."- Adolphe Menjou. “Newspaper interviewers keep ask- ing me: ‘What are your feelings to- ward Miss Bow?’ I think: ‘Is noth- ing sacred in this man’s town?’ And then I struggle on and try to tell them what I think, I can’t make myself understood. Everybody knows when a person really cares, he fumbles his words; he can’t express he gets inarticulate. W sometimes I feel like an animal in pain, not able to tell where the misery hurts me. I feel this way because I look on Miss Bow as you would look on a beautiful statue.”—Harry Richman. “The blood of the old Spa: sh con- quistadores is in my veins!"—Bebe Daniels. “Beauty is a great aid to any woman. “Don’t ever let anyone tell you differently."—Mary Nolan. “Poverty would fade into insignifi- cance with me, could I have a lot of children. In me is pent up all the mother-love that sn't bestowed upon me as a child.”—Clara Box (Continued on page 32) comicbooks.com |