Word: muni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muni set the second most important person is Mrs. Muni. If she likes a "take" she nods. If not, she shakes her head and even though Muni and the director are satisfied, the scene is done over...
...Muni is dreamy, sensitive, unpractical. When he bought a ranch in San Fernando Valley he mistook the irrigation stand-pipes for flower pots and planted geraniums in them. When the water was turned on, the geraniums flew into the air. He sold the ranch last spring for a hilltop home in Palos Verde, where he swims in his pool, plays with his dog and looks through a telescope at ships on the Pacific. He is never seen in Hollywood nightspots and takes no part in actors' disputes. He attended the mass meeting of the Screen Actors Guild last...
...Muni considers himself a very funny fellow, earnestly citing quips, practical jokes and an incident in which he jumped into a swimming pool with his clothes on. At his own insistence Warners allowed him to make a comedy called Hi, Nellie in which he played a wisecracking city editor. The experiment was not repeated...
Retirement? Reading scripts, Muni grades them like a schoolteacher, awarding "A1" to those scenes which have good dramatic values and also fit him perfectly. His contract allows him to reject any role he does not like. He rejects four out of five. What his next part will be is not known. With the completion of Zola, Muni began a long vacation. In October he and his wife will start on a trip round the world, avoiding war zones. During shooting of Zola, Muni gave several intimations that Zola's epitaph in the film might mark his own permanent farewell...
This sounded very much like the talk of a man whose zeal for his art impels him to seek a change of atmosphere but will not permanently keep him from work. This impression was strengthened by the fact that Muni has been considering an-other role, that of Haym Salomon, a Jewish banker and friend of George Washington who helped finance the Continental Army. Last week Warner Brothers announced that Salomon would be impersonated by Muni next, but it was shortly revealed that Muni had turned down the role on the ground that U. S. citizens might object...