Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.