“He wasn’t as ambitious as I was,” according to Joan. “He had a dozen talents and indulged them all in his easygoing way, but he’d never had to fight his way up the way I had, and he had no taste for it. I wanted Douglas, but I wanted work, too, and the rest of the time with him. I took my work with deadly seriousness.” Joan certainly had to do just that for her next picture, Untamed, her first talkie. Because many film actors had poor diction, or voices that were too high or too low, or had accents they could not lose, a large number of them could not negotiate the new sound barrier and lost
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