JEAN ARTHUR MAY LEAVE FILMS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 11

JEAN ARTHUR MAY LEAVE FILMS

,, Jean Arthur, who reached the peak of her screen • popularity when she played opposite Gary Cooper in "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," talks of-leaving films (says the London Daily Express), She. claims that she is so sickened by the 'parts provided for her in xecent pictures ' that she has had a nervous breakdown. Protesting' against her.present contract with Columbia Pictures, she has miade a deposition to the Court in which she says — " *'I think that being forced to do the kind of thing you are ashamed to do is about 'the worst. treatment one can possibly go through." ...... Miss Arthur was too ill to attend Court ;to * voice -her .protests, but her husband, Franlc Moss, appeared . for her. " Her deposition referred to a conference' which, she says, was held between her and Columbia in 1933, when she told them that "I will not go back into pictures just to "make money. •"I told them that I wanted to make quality pictures that amounted to somethinlc or else not be in the business at all." Unless some agreement is reached Miss Arthur threatens to abandon her film- career . and coneentrate on radio and the theatre. She ent.ered films as a professional model in 1928, left in 1930 when talkies camo in, and after three years on the stage roturned to carye out a new career for herself as a blonde. Ago — twentyeight.