NO MORE FILMS
Helen Hayes Decides
{~)NE of America’s best actresses, Helen Hayes, says that she will never appear in talkies again, and that she has just declined a £40,000 film offer.
When on a short visit to London with her husband, Charles MacArthur, the dramatist and scenario writer, Helen Hayes told the “Daily Mail” that she had decided not to return to Hollywoodior to make another picture, meet someone for a cocktail, without eight spies armed with cameras listening in and snatching photographs. “No marriage can survive in Hollywood, so my husband and I have decided to stay in New York,” she said. “I am sick of the impossible parts I have been given in films. Instead, I intend to concentrate on stage work.
“In JHollywood one cannot have a word With a friend in the street, or
“There is no privacy. The most intimate details of one’s private life appear garbled in the film magazines, and no couple can survive the publicity.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 24, 23 October 1936, Page 14
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164NO MORE FILMS Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 24, 23 October 1936, Page 14
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