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...Angeles she joined the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse. When Director Clarence Brown was casting male actors for Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen test, a part in Inspiration, a long-term contract. Now approximately 22, Cinemactress Mor ley is 5 ft. 4 in., 104 lb., hazel-eyed. Her mouth is too big, her nose too sharp, but she has a gay face and clever notions about how to act. Cinemactress Morley's description of herself: "I'm naturally a lazy person...
...pictures for $200,000 each. Except Scarf ace, completed early in the year, there were almost none which cost more than $300,000; none, like Trader Horn, which cost $1,000,000 or more. All producers cut office salaries; most producers tried to cut the salaries of employes under contract. George Arliss and Richard Barthelmess reduced their own salaries. James Cagney last week quit Hollywood because his pay was not increased (see p. 26). Also last week Ina Claire retired from the cinema to return to the stage. Her reason: "I didn't have my say. I took the movies...
...orders six glasses of water. He is served by Mary Evans (Constance Ben-nett), a waitress who wants to be a star in cinema. She brings Carey his water so efficiently that he takes her to the opening of his picture and subsequently enables her to get a contract as an actress...
...takes to drink in earnest. He becomes incompetent to go on directing pictures in which Mary Evans is the star, eventually shoots him self in Mary Evans' home. The unjust scandal of this episode forces her to run away to France, where her husband, bring ing her a new contract, finds...
...beginning which have the raucous air of wisecracks from Variety. When Mary Evans meets her producer (Gregory Ratoff), he chases her out of the room, crying to his three reassuring assistants : "No, No! One yes at a time." Presently he calls her back, gives her a seven-year contract. Constance Bennett is a pound or two heavier than heretofore, less gruff* in her speech...