No director in Hollywood has had more experience with high ranking stars than Clarence Brown, who has little use for that overworked word. "temperament."
Greta Garbo. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Spencer Tracy, Charles Boyer and John Barrymore comprise only a few of the leading stars who have received directorial guidance through the years from Brown, who is now completing a new Clark Gable-Rosállnd Russell vehicle.
"Understanding people from whom you're trying to get a job done is one of the primary requisites of Success" is Mr. Brown's opinion. "Without trying to impose upon the star, I have attempted to get close to the individuals personality. I have tried te make a minute analysis of all the stars with whom Tve worked—not only of their ability, great or mediocre, as the case may be, but of their good and bad points, their interests and their emotional set-up. I have saved considerable time and avoided no end of emotional strain by learning early in my association with them that loud laughter disconcerts Joan Crawford: that Paul Muni is easily taken out a mood which he is trying to hold by noisy conversationalists around him; that cigar smoke upsets Helen Hayes.
Clarence Brown's friendship with a prominent motorcar manufacturer is an interesting sidelight on the director's career. It goes back to the time Brown was a graduate in automotive engineering from the University of Tennessee and made the acquaintance of the auto magnate while touring his plant on invitation.
At the time, the manufacturer offered Brown a jo" in his organization on the r"sis of several suggestions made by the man later destined to become one of Hollywood's foremost directors. Brown turned down the offer because ko wanted to go into business himself, which he did. He was then successfully holding down a job in the Engineering Department of the Stevens-Duryea Auto Company at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, where his Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Film Manners Avoided Jane is a nice kid. She hasn't acquired any ut the artifices, which include a forced naturalness, so com mon in Hollywood. Nor is she coy, like many movie gals. Working for many Weeks in Hughes' picture na~ turally gave her more poise than the average 20-year-old has.
She is at ease amon: strangers, the result of training she received from Maria Ouspenskaya. Ouspenskaya, the venerable "Russian charac-for actress. runs a dramatic school here and Jane attended it for a semester. pit offered a job as assistant by for Maurice Tourneur, and he accepted before you could say Jack Robinson.
Young production, iby. assistant to Tovineur for six years roung auction, when he was made a full-fledged director, From Brown has marci
His record is unblemished by a with the advancement othe Screen.
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"One day Ouspenskaya told all of us to imagine we were eggbeaters,"
Karenina," "The Gorgeous Hi "Conquest," "Idiot's Delight,"
Jane recalled. "We felt awfully silly Wilderness!" and countless others. at first. She says if you can do Perpetuating characters which have things like that you can do almost fired the imagination of the world anything in the presence of others by achievements either in their and not be embarrassed." service to hum: or in historical events has been Mr. Brown's Service at Bolero favourite directorial interest. The assignment to do the life of the scientific genius, Thomas Edison, dishes of several nationalities as "Standard short orders, ular provided the director with one of well as tasty early moring break-the greatest thrills of his cinematic fasts are on the menu òf the Bolero coree!
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