GAIL RUSSELL TRIBUTE #4-"TOO BEAUTIFUL TO LAST"
There was never anyone,ever,quite like her.Gail Russell,the former Paramount actress with the lovely blue eyes and the luxurious raven black hair whose beautiful face,when in repose,always had a haunting sadness.Her career should have been long and happy instead of short and tragic.Gail's shy nature and fragile psyche were not suited to the glaring spotlight and harsh realities of a Hollywood star.In a Motion Picture Magazine article in November,1950,she told reporter Helen Weller"I can't remember the time when I wasn't painfully shy.I don't mean the garden variety shyness most people have.Mine was a thousand times worse.I was possessed with an agonizing kind of self-consciousness where I felt my insides tightening into a knot,where my face and hands grew clammy,where I couldn't open my mouth,where I felt impelled to turn and run if I had to meet new people".Earlier in a Screenland Movie Magazine article in 1945,Gail told reporter Gladys Hall"Until I was twelve years old,I was so shy you couldn't get me to open my mouth!When my parents had guests,I would run,get under the piano and hide there.Whenever I had to recite lessons or speak pieces in school,I behaved like an imbecile.Or I didn't show up".That was how shy and timid Gail was.Imagine being suddenly 'discovered' by Paramount executive William Meiklejohn in 1942 when he picked up two of Gail's classmates who were hitch-hiking,praising her to the skies,which led to her being screen tested and signed to a seven year ...
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