The other rôle was that of Mary Shelley, who was sweet and gentle. In one rôle I was the female monster: not actually ugly, but with a terrifying, sculptural sort of make-up. Next I had those two very good parts in The Bride of Frankenstein. The first part I did during this visit to Hollywood was a little bit in David Copperfield under my M-G-M contract, and then I played in Naughty Marietta. He is a sort of walking theatrical Who’s Who. He gets the programmes, and he knows who played Othello in 1928 in Berlin, who played Hamlet in 1926 in London, and so forth. For years he has followed important productions all over the world.
He is a professor at the University of Chicago and has a passionate love of the theatre. At Chicago we were met by Thornton Wilder, a great friend of ours, and one of the best companions one could have. We went by the fastest possible boat to New York, stayed one night, and took the plane early the next morning for Hollywood. One expects dirty frocks, and so forth, at the end of a long journey, but it is most disheartening to have to start off with them.
Women hate packing hurriedly because they have to pack dirty as well as clean clothes. We have always packed in a hurry, and they have been the most horrible times I have ever lived through.
In fact, it seems that whenever we have gone to or come from Hollywood we have never had more than ten hours’ notice. AFTER the Old Vic season had finished, Charles and I went to Hollywood once more, and again at short notice.
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