Etiquette of Hollywood Films

Never ask another actor what he is doing unless you know he is working. It is embarrassing for him to admit that he is “between pictures.” – Public domain image of Golden Globe winner, Mervyn LeRoy, the man who promoted etiquette for the blossoming film industry in Hollywood.

 

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HOLLYWOOD, March 18 (AP)- A treatise on the etiquette of the movies is being prepared by Mervyn LeRoy, scenario writer with Colleen Moore. 

Here are some of the rules he lays down: 

• Never ask another actor what he is doing unless you know he is working. It is embarrassing for him to admit that he is “between pictures.”
• Never ask an actor about his wife, nor an actress about her husband, unless you have read the morning paper.
• Directors do not visit sets on which other directors are at work.
• Three picture people, on parting, will go separate ways, in order that two will not be left to talk about the other. – San Pedro Daily Mail, 1927

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