MONTGOMERY GOT HIS OWN WAY.
Robert Montgomery is the happiest aetor in Hollywood, for he is to play in Emlyn Williams 's dramatic story, "Kight Must Fall," which gives him" his first experience. of heavy dramatics and breaks, to his intense relief, the long succession of light . comedy rolesin what he himself would call ' ' sickly stories a]bout idle wasters." "I'm |ired of bobbing about among. Hollywood 's society snobs trying ' to be pert or funny," he said when he was filming "Piccadilly Jim." As soon as the picture was . completed Montgomery left his fine home in Beverly Hills to go to his farm at Connecticut. From there he carried on jheated icorrespondence wi,th M.G.M. exocutives and with his own management. "Get me 'Kight Must Fall,' and I TI come back," he told them. For a while it looked as though Montgomery might even retire from the screen and remain at Connecticut as a gentleman-farmer. He could easily break with Hollywood and live- contentedly for the rest of his life. Fortunately, however, M.G.M. decided to buy specially for him the screen rights in "Night Must Fall," and not merely to give Eobert the role of the young murderer but to bring over from
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 77, 17 April 1937, Page 8
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202MONTGOMERY GOT HIS OWN WAY. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 77, 17 April 1937, Page 8
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