Breaking into the movies

Breaking into the movies

Were the average man suddenly called upon to assemble all the women in his town who looked like Mary Pickford, he might find himself at a loss as to how to commence. In fact, he might even doubt that there were sufficient persons answering this description to warrant such a campaign. We know a way to get them all together on twenty-four hours' notice. Just insert a small advertisement in the local newspaper, reading: "Wanted for the moviesa girl who looks like Mary Pickfordapply at such-and-such a studio to-morrow morning." We guarantee that not only will every woman who looks like Mary Pickford be on the spot at sunrise, but that a large preponderance of the entire female population will drop in during the morning. For it is a puzzling but indisputable fact that everybody wants to break into the movies. The curious part of it all is that the movies really need these people. On the one hand are countless men and women besieging the studio doors in the hope of starting a [pg2] career in any one of a thousand capacities, from actress to scenario writer, from director to cameraman. There are people with plots, people with inventions, people with new ideas of every conceivable variety, all clamoring for admission. And, on the other hand, there are the men who manage the movies sending out all manner of exhortations, appeals and supplications to just such people to come and work in their studios. They drown each other's voices, the one calling for new talent and new types, the many for a chance to demonstrate that they are just the talent and types that are so in demand. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 56570
Author: Emerson, John
Release Date: Feb 15, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Loos, Anita, 1893-1981