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_aMarsh, Mae, _d1894-1968 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aScreen acting |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-02-01 | ||
| 508 | _aTim Miller, Paul Fatula and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _a"Screen acting" by Mae Marsh is a practical guide and personal manual on motion‑picture performance written in the early 20th century. It offers clear, experience-based advice for aspiring film actors in the silent era, covering technique, preparation, and career realities, enriched with studio anecdotes and insights from collaborations within the early Hollywood community. The opening of the guide explains that Marsh wrote to answer the flood of fan letters about screen acting, outlining common requests (photos, autographs, “old clothes”) and the central question of how to learn the craft. She debunks the myth of the overnight star, stresses perseverance with examples, and defines seven key traits for success: talent, ambition, personality, sincerity, agreeable appearance, vitality, and quick learning. Early chapters favor expressive faces over mere beauty, show how to study a script and plan “business,” advocate light, thoughtful makeup and character‑true costumes, and use concrete set stories (from Polly of the Circus, The Birth of a Nation, and a fashion-heavy role) to illustrate preparation. She tackles camera‑consciousness with focused concentration, warns against imitation by drawing on genuine emotion, and explains repression and emphasis, mood‑resuming, body language, walking, and the value of real rehearsals. Technical sections introduce shot distances, close‑ups, spoken lines for lip‑read clarity, “hogging the camera,” and keeping poise, then widen to studio atmospheres, the primacy of story, and “observation tours” for realism. This opening culminates in a warm tribute to D. W. Griffith’s patient, collaborative direction and the innovations his teams developed. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cLos Angeles: Photo-Star Publishing Co., 1921 |
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| 653 | _aMotion pictures | ||
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