Word: self-respect
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With sports out of the question, Gregory landed a part as Starbuck in a college production of Moby Dick. In this first try at acting he was so terrible that self-respect forced him to try again. In the next plays, he was better. By the time he played Matt in the drama club's Anna Christie, he knew what he wanted. He could not even wait five days to pick up his diploma, he was in such a hurry to reach Broadway...
...Hours. Caught neck-deep among Hollywood's peculiar blessings and obligations, Peck likes being regarded as a good actor. But he takes little pleasure in his fame, and none, apparently, in the standing, prestige or power he might have. He admits to some laziness, but adds, with proper self-respect: "I can be conscientious as hell under pressure...
Where Magic Town eventually gets gainfully out of order is in sounding its Note of Hope. Know-how, self-respect and daring are traditional American virtues, but this movie suggests that they can be aroused only by deceit and the pressure of public opinion...
...without disproving his fear that he was a coward. "He had hoped finally it would be in this war, the first war in which the psychiatrists had made it 'all right' to be afraid, so long as you were brave," that he would rebuild his self-respect. "He had rushed out on Dec. 8, 1941, to seek another chance...
...knows how to please his agency's most fearsome client, Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sidney Greenstreet). Vic seems predestined for radio's ulcer brackets. But Miss Kerr's gentility seduces him into true love; and Mr. Greenstreet's ferocious bullying eventually goads him into self-respect...