BABY THAT COST £23,000
One of Hollywood’s really charming women is Eleanor Boardman, the star of “Women Love Once,” writes Cedric Belfrage in the Sunday Express. Miss Boardman has been practically in retirement, since she married King Vidor, the director, and had a baby. Having babies is a practice that has always been frowned o in Hollywood. The producers say that the long time during which the mother has to be absent from the screen irreparably impairs her reputation, except in very occasional cases. The public memory is as fickle as that. Even if she does not suffer eclipse through it, a star who has a baby finds it an expensive business. One wellknown actress, who recently became a mother, spent some of her time in the hospital calculating how much it was costing her. Her salary was £6OO a week, and she was off the screen altogether for 10 months. That baby cost £25,000.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 278, 24 November 1931, Page 10
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