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| |  | SVENGALI WINDOW CARD In September of 1930 Barrymore began a three month cruise on his yacht with his wife (Delores) and five month old baby. While vacationing he suffered a severe gastric hemorrhage. On the return Warners contacted him with the suggestion that TRILBY be adapted to the screen. He cabled in reply ;- Impress the writer with the fact that the male character must be funny and get lots of laughs, particularly in the first part of the story. Although a sinister figure, he is a wise, dirty, glutinous Polish Jew, with no conscience and a supreme contempt for all those nice, clean, straight-thinking English Christians. He has an enormous sense of humor. The funnier he is, in the proper way, the better the picture will be, and the greater contrast to all the sinister part, hypnotism, etc., in the last part of the picture......The female lead must have exactly the right quality. Otherwise the entire play goes for nothing. The man's is the better acting part, but if the girl is not perfectly right everthing he does is bound to be unbelievable and little ridiculous. Arriving back in Long Beach in December, he spent a full month in bed with headaches. SVENGALI was shot in the first months of 1931.
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