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COMING INTO ITS’OWN.After years in glamorous'roles,'handsome, blonde Nelson Eddy- is to be made into a he-man in “Let Freedom Ring?,’ Hollywood seems to be awakening at last to the fact that fans' want good acting rather than good' looks, and. ability is coming into its own, c The day of the_ sirens -who : slunle across the silver screens with nothing to offer but perfect figures and beautiful but expressionless faces has gones : Today it is sincerity and intelligence that counts. We forget players’ looks when they really live their parts, -We see only the story character, coming to life on the screen and we remember the-part played rather than the.star who played it. Charles Boyer says: “Charm is a by* product, but sincerity of voice and gesture is everything on the screen.’’ Edward G. Robinson says it is' what you say with your voice and how you say it that is the determining factor cn the screen. , The far-from-beautiful Bette Davis is the best example of sincerity of performance above beauty. She has dar,ed to appear unglamorous in roles, but made audiences forget it in.the dramatic intensity of her voice and expression. /
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 4
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