Director Plays Jester To Get "Atmosphere"
THE spirit of gaiety and merriment so necessary to make night club scenes convincing on the screen, are not achieved without considerable thought and diplomacy on the part of the director.
Henry Koster, who directed Danielle Darrieux and Douglas Fairbanks, jun., in “The Rage of Paris,” a romantic comedy about a pretty French girl’s adventures in New York, has a method for provoking humour that usually works. With nearly 500 dress extras surrounding his principal players on a big,night club set Koster prepared to shoot a scene. “All right,” he cried, “you’re supposed to be having a good time. This is one night club where you can really relax and enjoy yourselves. There won’t be any check!” If one joke does not work, Koster has a hundred others. One of them is bound to provoke the laughter and gaiety which the scene requires.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 253, 22 July 1938, Page 18
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