Film stars are divided into two categories—those who dominate their background—and those who are dominated by their background, writes Sheilah Graham to the "Oregonian." There are more of the latter, Joan Crawford did all right by herself and her public against those early hot cha back-drops. Her troubles started when she was placed ip society' locales ("The* Last of Mrs. Cheyney," "Love On the Run" and "The Bride Wore Red"). She just didn't belong there.
You could just as easily take Myrna Loy from current drawing rooms and put her back into her early Oriental mistakes. In those miscast days, Myrna was just another slant-eyed dancer, Now, in her proper setting ("The Thin Man," "The Great Ziegfeld" and "Parnell"), she is a powerful box office magnet.
105 difficult to know what constitutes the right background for Marlene Dietrich. As Joseph von Sternberg expressed himself when critized for some of Marlene's errors, her type of picture is limited, "She cannot play American drama or comedy. She has to go abroad. She's already had a German background ("The Blue Angel'), a Chinese bactground ('Shanghai Express), a Moroccan background ('Morocco'). a Spanish background ('Desire') anda Russian background ('Knight Without Armor). There's nowhere else take her" He's right.
Clark Goble's fame was founded on he-man out-of-doors epics ("Call of the Wild," "Mutiny on the Botnty" and "China Seas"), Why did if-G.-M. have to spoil it all with bette. neck dramas of the "Parnell" selion?
Specimen." Now he is back again in his best romantic setting—as he bandit who robbed the rich to feed the poor in "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
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