By Richard A. Davison, Jackson R. Bryer
Interviews with seventeen best degree performers.
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Come on down with me. ” I came down, I met Nancy, I met the director, and he did give me a job at fifteen dollars a week. That was my first time on the professional stage. It was in a play aptly titled Up Pops the Devil. ” My father was very ill at that time, so my eldest brother was deputized to act for him. There are some words you never forget. ” Those words were seared into my head; but I got the fifty bucks. Is that the story you wanted? Interviewer: That’s the story I wanted. Jessica, your background is very different from Hume’s.
So dressed like this I said, “WHERE IS EVERYBODY? ” There was a terrible pause. ” So I said, “Where is everybody? ” I did it three times to “a little less theatrical,” and then I said, “Look, I’m dressed like a fellow in drag here. I’m supposed to be playing a part that’s right for Eve Arden. You haven’t sent me the script. You’ve never spoken to me. ” He gave me a line reading and I did the part. And I had a good time. Interviewer: How did he want you to say that line? Caldwell: A lot less than I was saying.
Interviewer: Movies? Caldwell: Oh no, I’m not a movie actress. Interviewer: As far as I know, you have been in Purple Rose of Cairo, as the Countess. Caldwell: That’s it. That’s my one film—and that was a mistake. No, no, it wasn’t a mistake when I eventually did it. I have been offered films, and I look at a script and I think, “There’s nothing for me to play. Why do they want me for this? ” I love films. I love watching them. I love good film acting, but I can’t do it. ” I said, “Sure! ” She said, “Woody doesn’t send scripts,” and I said, “In that case, no.