| re: Jean Arthur -- In Film and On Stage | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 01:34 pm EST 02/05/24 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 01:33 pm EST 02/05/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Jean Arthur -- In Film and On Stage - PlayWiz 12:26 pm EST 02/05/24 | |
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| She was under contract to Harry Cohn at Columbia for 10 years until 1944. Unfortunately she didn't like to play the Hollywood game, didn't like interviews or publicity campaigns, fought with Cohn, and was judged to be "difficult" at times. Despite being Columbia's biggest female star, her salary was less than half of what her male co-stars Cary Grant and Ronald Colman received for Talk of the Town. It's also a little sad that she received only a single Oscar nomination for The More the Merrier, even though her indelible performances in classic films like Deeds, Mr. Smith, You Can't Take It With You, Talk of the Town, Shane, and perhaps one or two others certainly merited greater consideration. Her last film of the 40's was the very underrated Billy Wilder comedy, A Foreign Affair. Her stage career after the contract with Columbia ended was mostly an utter disaster with the exception of the Berstein scored Peter Pan. Unfortunately despite that shows's strong reviews and respectable run of 321 performances, there was a lot of controversy and missed performances by Arthur. AlanScott has well documented the whole story in earlier posts. Anyway, the show ended up being a commercial failure. Perhaps audiences were disappointed that Arthur had a non-singing role. |
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