Colour May Bring New Faces To The Screen

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 13

Colour May Bring New Faces To The Screen

THE advent of colour films is causing an upheaval in Hollywood comparable to that which followed the introduction of sound. Colour is demanding new faces for the movies. Some of the most famous faces on the screen to-day may vanish. New faces will appear.

1 Colour is demanding that everyone in Hollywood re-learn his business. That goes for actors and actresses, producers, directors, cameramen, make-up experts, electricians, scenic designers, stylists, film editors —even scenario-writers. It will affect everyone in the profession.

Abraham Shore, one of Hollywood's best-known make-up experts, says: •'Colour, with its realism, is definitely going to weed out many of the glamorous stars of black-and-white films. Black-and-white pictures give us an opportunity to use highlights and shadows to compensate for shortcomings—to model features, to alter expressions. The reproduction of 'colours in pictures will make these tricks impossible. It will bring many new faces to the screen. Defects Revealed. "Besides beautiful natural colouring," says Mr. Shore, "a Woman must havo regular features to photo-, graph well iu colour. That is whyi some of the present-day stars will vanish. There are many stars whose ! features now need shading to give them glamour. One has a double chin, | which can be camouflaged in black, and white. Another has a sharp profile. that is softened by make-up magic, j Another has deep circles under the eyes which can be hidden in black ! and white photography. j

"The present-day stars who will! make good in colour are Anne Shirley, Jeannette MacDonald, Myrna Loy—all. three are redheads; Kay Francis, a de-, cided brunette; Norma Shearer; Joan' Crawford; Marlene Dietrich, if she] stays a natural blonde; Anita Louise,, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple,! Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers,! and Steffi Dunn—who. is gorgeous in E colour. There are others. Colour films will make the public realise that some of the stars to-day are sensational beauties, because colour is' more intimate than black and white."i