It was a theory that died very hard that the public would not stand for anyone dressed in clothes of another period… I got around this objection by staging what we call a vision. The poor working girl was dreaming of love and reading “Tristan and Isolde”. The scene faded out, and scenes were depicted on the screen that the girl was supposed to be reading… Thus a bit of costume picture was put over on the man who bought the picture for his theater, and there was no protest from the public.
Category: died today
Died Today (January 20th): Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990)
[on filming Titanic (1953)] The night we were making the scene of the dying ship in the outdoor tank at Twentieth, it was bitter cold. I was 47 feet up in the air in a lifeboat swinging on the davits. The water below was agitated into a heavy rolling mass and it was thick with other lifeboats full of women and children. I looked down and thought, “If one of these ropes snaps now, it’s good-by for you”. Then I looked up at the faces lined along the rail -those left behind to die with the ship. I thought of the men and women who had been through this thing in our time. We were re-creating an actual tragedy and I burst into tears. I shook with great racking sobs and couldn’t stop.
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