Cinema: Cinecritique

Columnist Sidney Skolsky asked some cinemactors what they thought of their work while watching pictures they had made. Their answers:

John Barrymore: Nothing that I do surprises me any more.

Fred MacMurray: I never look at the rushes. They show them just before lunch.

Gary Cooper: Sometimes I appear egg-shaped; sometimes pear-shaped.

Maxie Rosenbloom: I'm never concerned about what I look like up there on the screen. The thing that bothers me is getting the job to get up there on that screen.

Myrna Loy: The first time ... I ran screaming out of the projection room.

Don Ameche: The one thing that bothers me is my...

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