Sylvia Sidney

Before SAG there were some nights I would just sleep at the studio. There were no rules about how many hours you would work or how much time you had between shoots. We'd work all day Saturday and all night. They didn't stop working us until daylight because that's when they did all of the outdoor night shooting. Life was very different before the Guild. On Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) when we had to go back for retakes, there was snow on the ground, so they sprayed it with brown paint and there I was wearing hardly anything and my legs turned blue! Around that time the studios finally recognized the union. I think SAG has done remarkable things and is the best thing that ever happened to actors.