|
e1d5d9d
|
Her first really great role, the one that cemented the "Jean Arthur character," was as the wisecracking big-city reporter who eventually melts for country rube Gary Cooper in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). It was the first of three terrific films for Capra: Jean played the down-to-earth daughter of an annoyingly wacky family in Capra's rendition of Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You (1938), and she was another hard-..
|
|
classic-hollywood
frank-capra
jean-arthur
films
hollywood
film
movies
|
Eve Golden |
|
0bec922
|
I bumped into every kind of disappointment, and was frustrated at every turn. Roles promised me were given to other players, pictures that offered me a chance were shelved, no one was particularly interested in me, and I had not developed a strength of personality to make anyone believe I had special talents. I wanted so desperately to succeed that I drove myself relentlessly, taking no time off for pleasures, or for friendships." - Jean Ar..
|
|
|
Eve Golden |
|
95c1847
|
I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself," [Jean Arthur] later conjectured."
|
|
|
Eve Golden |
|
3c78909
|
Talking films revealed [Jean Arthur]'s quirky, remarkable voice: nasal, raspy, querulous-- an odd, expressive voice which somehow fit her intense, funny and very smart screen persona.
|
|
|
Eve Golden |