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In order to make sure that Princess Baba wouldn't be nervous for her first : appearance before the movie cameras in Universal’s “You Can’t Cheat an! Honest Man.” the producer Mr Lester J Cowan withheld the script from her until one hour before she was due on I the set. “It has been my experience that I much or the trouble experienced by IMr Cowan said. “They are so anxious jto make good that t hey study their, (dialogue so much it worries them. .Then they get in front of the camera land blow up. However, by withholding their dialogue until the last min- | ute you eliminate that advance worrying. Consequently they work far ( more smoothly. | "I followed that procedure with j Princess Baba with marvellous rc[suits. She went in and did her first scene almost as well as an experienced actress.” Princess Baba, who is the daughter of the White Rajah of Sarawak, plays a princess and one of the romantic •leads in the pictuer which stars W. C. | Fields with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. George Marshall is directing with Cowan'producing.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4
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184STAGE FRIGHT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 4
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