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Show .ENTERTAINMENT m 3 CUTS SCRAPES Failure Made Him a Success Michael Penniless and Caine awoke one morning in Paris and, swore he would succeed even if it meant going home and facing himself half-starve-d, BURNS ' Stop PabiTast . Promote Rapid Healing Apply t yv mm .! - J. OPPENHEIMER vctor michael caine has come a long way from the days when he roamed the streets of Paris half starved and dirty, his clothes crumpled from sleeping in them to keep warm. .V -- Today he lives comfortably in a handsome house in a fashionable section of London. He eats well and dresses : with impeccable taste. And he is, a "business" as well as a person Michael Caine Productions, Ltd., a corpora This tall, blond young man, who became famous over night with his striking performance in the spy thriller, "The Ipcress File," now can look back with a certain degree of perspective on that unhappy period seven years ago when he went through a divorce, impoverishment, and a nervous breadown. "I wanted to act," he says. "Eventually I had to make a choice between a career and marriage, and the career won out." , twity imn w ui vuni ui iun.uaci' vun . niimg Now 32, he was born and reared in one of London's toughest slums, the son of a Cockney scrub woman and a father. Leaving school at 16, he had hopes of becoming an actor but found the only work he could get was as an office boy or a manual laborer. The National Service Britain's version of the draft temporarily solved Michael's job problems by sending him off to fight in Korea with the Royal Fusiliers, an infantry outfit. When he was released from the service, he got a job in a meat market and began to work seriously T? ai I nil hn v a m n rvr rl 4 a imt nrAA a mm am antini tmiti in few small parts. It was at this time that he met his wife. "She was the leading lady in a play I appeared in," he told me. "We were married within two weeks after we met" Their marriage produced a daughter, Dominique, who is now eight. But Michael's worries began to pile up. His wife had to give up her career to look after the baby, and Michael suddenly found himself unable to get work of any kind. "In one week,"' he told me,' "my marriage broke up, my father died of cancer, and I had a nervous breakdown. Nothing mattered except to get away. With the $70 I got from my father's insurance, I ran off to Paris." The money didn't last long, but Michael was afraid to return and face the consequences. "I lived on sandwiches given to me by an American who worked in a snack bar. I've had a bad stomach ever since! I slept in a shed and ate discarded, fruit in the produce market. "My life would have been ruined for good if I hadn't awakened one morning and, instead of feeling like a mi fish-peddli- - . stops pin. And. itt antiseptic sction com bits infection, help injuries bed Nature's way. also protects gainst airborne infection . . . so promotes rapid, arwarr raW healing. 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A friend of his told me: "People say Michael is insensitive and ruthless at times. But he isn't. He knew very well what a sacrifice his mother had made for him, and, believe me, he has repaid her many times since." A few weeks after his mother had invested her savings in Michael's career, he started getting parts in tv. But the real turn for the better came after he got a job as assistant stage manager with a repertory company. "At first I felt like I was right back where I started being an office boy but it gave me a chance to do a few small parts on the stage," he told me. His big break came when he got a featured role in the film, "Zulu." Producer Harry Saltzman saw the movie one night and shortly afterward bumped into Michael in a London restaurant Michael recalls: "Mr. Saltzman came over and said, 'Do you want to do "The Ipcress File" and 10 other pictures for me in the next five years?' The money was right, and I took the deal." Becous off th film's success, Michael's portrayal of Harry Palmer, the insubordinate intelligence sergeant who wears glasses and likes to cook, will be continued in future films but not until Michael completes two other pictures, "Alfie" and "The Wrong Box." T " The obvious question that comes to mind is: what will success do to a man who went through so much to get where he is today? " Michael's answer is : "Everybody seems to worry about that Nobody tells me how good I was in 'Ipcress' but only, 'Don't let it change you.' I really don't think it will precisely because of what I have gone through. "I am not out of the acting woods yet. I feel I need all the professional help I can get That's also why I don't want to get married again right now. Someday when I am really secure, I want a wife and children because if I have success I want to share it with a woman. But if I'm a failure, I want no witnesses." having I First Aid Kit in a bat. tie. 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