“My dancing school work was getting me exactly nowhere. The twenty-five a month was getting us into debt…. “I heard, then, that Fanchon and Marco were putting on one of their revues at the Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre. I applied for the job and got it. I was one of thirty girls doing the dance numbers. […]
“I’m all right when I’m acting. It’s the stills that worry me. My cameraman said, ‘Miss Ulric, you’re fine when you’re moving. But the minute I try to take a still of you, you get that set look.’ He’s right. I smile naturally for a second, and then it’s forced. In the sad scenes I […]
“I guess I became an actress because I didn’t want to be myself.” — Jean Arthur “Modern life is so complex that I think we need all the intellectual tools at our command to understand it. I am particularly interested in the mental and spiritual phases of life. In this modern world, the two […]
“I’m always pleasant around the house when I’m playing emotional parts in the theater. When I’m playing comedies, I’m always a little disagreeable around the house.” — Miriam Hopkins Source: Dora Albert (1931) Photographer: Eugene Robert Richee (1931) “We thought Uncle Dixie was a very grand person. He was sort of a Gene Markey […]
“Doesn’t it strike you as just a little funny when you think of us actors eternally putting on and taking off make-up and spending the best part of our days and nights making funny faces? When you look at it from a grown-up point of view, acting is the most childish of professions, isn’t it? […]
“No matter how alien the lines may seem to his own personality and viewpoint, the good actor makes himself, for the moment at least, believe completely in their work. Without that belief, he can’t make his words ring true.” — Dwight Frye in 1933. Photo: Frankenstein (1931) “If God is good, I will be […]
“When I first came to California an interviewer asked me what is the dangerous age of a man and a woman. They ask such funny questions, so naive! I told him I did not know the dangerous age of man. I have not been one. The dangerous age of a woman is from one to […]