What Makes a Star Succeed in Hollywood

Bidwell McCormick takes you behind the scenes in Hollywood. Many times I have wondered and no doubt you have also. Just why some actors and actresses get ahead faster in pictures than others do. Why it is that of perhaps two persons who show great promise, one rises to the height, while another falls to comparative obscurity.

What do you think about this, Nathan? Well many things enter into the making of a successful career in motion pictures. Sometimes it's an intangible something in his or her personality that makes a star click.

More often it's sheer ability, hard work and a willingness to learn and to keep on learning and of course appearance plays no small part in making a star material. Yes, I was particularly impressed with the combination of these things not long ago when I was on the set of Archeo's forthcoming production of Spanish Main.

That's being filmed entirely in Technicolor isn't it? and should make a grand vehicle from lovely marine or Hera. I agree with you there, Nathan, for I had an opportunity to study this young lady's beauty and charms never before as I was standing on the high platform directly back at the huge technicolor camera as they were shooting a close-up of her in the Spanish main. She stood there

at the rail of the great sailing vessel, patiently rehearsing and reenacting a scene for beauty silhouetted against the cloudless sky of studio-painted blue that would defy detection from nature's own. Her hair gently tossed in the breeze, and her large vivid blue eyes sparkling with a rare charm, the technicolor camera will record in all its natural beauty.

Well, there was one answer. Rare combination of charm and beauty, coupled with the willingness to accept hard work under the intense heat of the studio lights, the countless rehearsals and necessary retakes. I mentioned a moment ago that a gentle breeze tossed her hair.