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Marie Evelyn Dunham, Motion Picture, New York, March 1931.

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„He knows how they punish a man for Success!“

Editorial content. „The Seven Deadly Sins of Hollywood

      VII

      The Sin Of Success

      By Marie Evelyn Dunham

      The deadliest sin of all, in the eyes of Hollywood, is the sin

of success. That, of course, is true of every community.

But in Hollywood, where the stakes are so high, the play is so fast

and the competition so bitter – it is worse than in most

other places.“ (...)

      „So I have concluded that his chief sin is that

of Success.

      Can‘t Have Cake and Eat It, Too

      Charles Chaplin knows. Even after all these years.

That lonely little figure with the graying hair and the

tragic eyes – he knows how they punish a man for Success!“ (...)

      „Part of the punishment for Success is the challenge

to live up to it. ,All right. You‘ve made a hit. Now,

let‘s see you do it again – if you can! Let‘s just see you try!‘

That is the attitude.

      You never live down that initial triumph. You are never

credited with being as good again. The thing haunts

you and pursues you to the end of things. It won‘t do to make

a different kind of success. You have to repeat.

And that can be done so rarely... even by a Chaplin.“ (...)

      „It is no accident that Important People seek

other Important People for their friends. They are pariahs

getting together to shiver in concert.

      The Colman-Barthelmess-Powell combination.

The Fairbanks-Chaplin friendship. All these people have

endured success in Hollywood for a long time.“ (...)

      Photo. „Charlie Chaplin paid for success with graying

hair and tragic eyes.“

 

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