Home Savings and Loan, 1970s

Genre: Commercial

Year Published: 1970s

Creator: Home Savings and Loan D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B)

Format: 16mm

Description: Transcription: Narrator How do you get to the top of your field? 0:00 Home Savings asked the first lady of the theater, 0:02 Helen Hayes. 0:05 - I think it takes more stamina and tenacity 0:06 to be an actor than anything else I can think of. 0:09 You need real courage, almost full heartiness 0:11 to go out and face the unknown in every new audience. 0:15 But you do need the audience. 0:19 You can't judge your performance by instinct alone. 0:21 You have to have somebody looking at you. 0:24 You can rehearse without an audience, 0:27 but you can't perform without one. 0:28 That's why I was never comfortable in movies or television. 0:31 I always felt I was pressing. 0:34 It was so easy. 0:36 I felt so at home when I walked on a stage. 0:38 It didn't matter if I was ill. 0:41 It didn't matter if I had bronchitis. 0:42 It didn't matter if I was exhausted. 0:44 I'd walk on the stage and that audience was there 0:46 and I was well again. 0:51 Narrator There is only one Helen Hayes. 0:52 There is only one number one anything. 0:54 In the field of savings and loans. 0:56 Home Savings is number one. 0:58