HOWARD HAWKS: Gable, Barrymore, Harlow, not one of those actors had a damn thing to say about the choice of stories. They did what they were told to do by very smart people. And they remade any portion of the picture that was bad. And they worked the star system so that if you went to see Gable, you knew that you were going to see a certain type of picture. You knew what he stood for. You knew if you were going to see Crawford, what kind of story it would be. When the day came that the stars decided themselves what they were going to do—holy smoke, what a mess they made. You know, because
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