SCREEN POTENTIALITIES
A REMARKABLE LIST If 10 world-famous figures had chosen motion pictures instead of other careers thdy would have attained screen prominence, even stardom, according to a “ voice personality ” vote cast recently by three film notables. Ballots were filed by Carole Lombard and Fredric March, co-stars in David 0. Selznick’s technicolour production, ‘ Nothing Sacred,’ and by the director, William A. Wellman. The impromptu vote was the result of a discussion on the screen value of “ voice personality,” during which it was agreed that no one who lacked it could hope to become a star.
Unanimous choice of all three for the No. 1 position was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose vocal charms are well known. Next in line followed the Duke of Windsor, Aimee Semple M'Pherson (the evangelist), Tod Husing (radio sports commentator), Dorothy Thompson (journalist), Richard Halliburton (author, adventurer, and lecturer), Sir Anthony Eden (Britain’s Foreign Secretary), Hiram Johnson (Senator from California), Arthur Vandenburg (Senator from Michigan), and A 1 Smith (of political fame). “ These choices,” explained Wellman, “ were on the basis of voice alone. No one has ever mathematically figured how much ‘ voice personality ’ counts in motion pictures. To judge its importance, however, one needs only to point to the crashing of stars when talkies came into the film industry.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 5
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