Show r Winchell Barbara Tells Stars' Stars Pasts K Clark Gable Once Pi Picked ed Hops AT 9 iii I Gary Cary ary Grant Walked on Stilts Trades Janes By y Barbara A bit of tattle tattle tattIe on the pasts of If Hollywood celebrities Even as no motion picture has ever been made in the city of oi Hollywood another indisputable fact r ct is that few lew per cent actors and actresses can be found in Hol Hol- lywood No motion picture has even en been filmed in the city oJ oI Hollywood because it is not and never has been a city The place now tow known as Hollywood was annexed annexed an an- to Los Angeles before the first film was shot and it has been within the corporate of oI the city of ol Los Angeles throughout the life of the industry As for the actors and actresses A per center is one who was born to the theater from theatrical parents or who has never engaged In any other profession but act- act Ing As for lor the less than per centers enters it is Js sate safe to guess they outnumber the per centers nine tIne to one Clark Gable worked in a tire factory was an oil worker a lumberjack lumberjack lumberjack lum lum- classified ad salesman and hop picker before- before he became an actor Wallace Beery was a i in a circus a wiper in a railroad roundhouse an ironworker an elephant elephant elephant ele ele- trainer and a business manager man man- ager Greta Garbo was a model in a Stockholm department store Then theres there's a certain chap who could do right well crooning in a aradio aradio aradio radio hill billy quartet for that thatis is is what he did for a while before he left Beatrice Neb to win fame and fortune and a lovely wife wile like me in Hollywood His name is Robert Taylor Robert Montgomery served as asan asan asan an apprentice on an oil tanker and worked in a locomotive plant I Should the props fall from under under un un- der ler Cary Gary Grant he could go back to walking stilt-walking which he did throughout England in his younger restless days Charles Laugh Laughton ton served several years ears as a London hotel clerk and manager while William Powells Powell's first thoughts were of law Bruce Cabot was a rancher and cotton buyer before belore his greasepaint greasepaint greasepaint grease grease- paint da days s 's and Robert Benchley was one of the best newspapermen and magazine e editors to turn his back on New York Claire Trevor was wes seriously studying ing to become a portrait and arid landscape ape painter at Smith college when n the he acting fever ey r sidetracked herT ei Fred MacMurray MacMurry was doing allright all allright allright right for tor himself as a hot horn tooter when his his' band landed in Hollywood and he landed in pictures pic pic- t tures Ray Kay Milland 1 at this particular time could find immediate employment employment em em- plo plo-ment in n any mans man's army for before he became an actor he was wasa a professional soldier and aviator in England Nelson Eddy studied singing while working as a Philadelphia newspaper reporter and Allan Jones earned his first dollar running running run run- ning a steam shovel in the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania coal fields Fredric March was a very handsome hand- hand some Mme model and they still use models models models mod mod- els to advertise things Melvyn Douglas not only could be but is a most persuasive politician politician poli poll with his hands in many political movements in his adopted state Robert Young earned his first dollars in a drugstore a newspaper newspaper newspaper per office a building and loan as association association as- as and a bank Martha Scott and Madeleine Carroll Carroll Carroll Car Car- roll have had experience as school schoolteachers teachers and George Raft still can shake a couple of graceful feet on the dance floor for which he was amply paid by night clubs before he flipped the lucky coin in Scarface Scarface Scarface Scar face that changed his future life Me Well I was was third from the left in the chorus on the Strand Roof PooL Dick Powell Ponell was a Bandleader in Pittsburgh before the movies called and Ronald Reagan was a sports announcer on station WHO Des Moines Janet Gaynor sold shoes before her her extra extra days and Ellen Drew was was-a a soda jerker next door to Graumans Grauman's Chinese theater Dorothy Lamour was an elevator elevator ele ele- vator ator operator in Chicago and Jinx Falkenburg now embarking on her first serious bid for movie fame could either go back to modeling or professional tennis |