deforest:THE BIG PARADE (1925)dir. King Vidor[John Gilbert] wrote of Vidor: “In directing the

deforest:THE BIG PARADE (1925)dir. King Vidor[John Gilbert] wrote of Vidor: “In directing the picture [King Vidor] seems to convey some of his ideas through his silence better than they could be explained by most producers. “Renée Adorée, for instance, never knew she was even going to chew gum when we sat down in one of the most famous scenes from the movie. I had the gum and as we looked at each other I pulled it out and gave her some… She didn’t beforehand think of swallowing it, but we discovered afterward that she was expected to by Mr. Vidor.” After that chewing-gum scene, in which the American boy gives the French girl her first stick of gum and she eats it, Vidor leaped to his feet shouting, “I’ll be damned if I ever saw a scene as good as that!” — Dark Star by Leatrice Gilbert Fountain -- source link

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