LACK OF CONFIDENCE.
Jred Mac Murray claims that his debut in motion pictures was delayed fully five years by shyness. "A lack of self-confidence is man's worst enemy," said Mac Murray, now under long-term contract to Paramount. "Although it is not generally known," .he continued, "when I drove to Hollywood for the first time in 1929 and worked at practically all studios except Paramount as an extra, 'I'had opportunities to make good. But I didn't take them. I helped to cure myself thereafter by working in an orchestra. I got used to being watched by people when I played the saxophone. I even got so that I could stand up on the stage and play a solo. Gradually I won self-con-fidence. Paramount signed me in 1934 and I returned to Hollywood. I felt uneasy at first, but gradually got such control of myself that I forget about myself, now when I stand. before . a camera." Mac Murray in his next picture plays opposite Claudette Colbert in "Maid of Salem.".
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 21
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