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Show ENTERTAINMENT AJ Sailor, Singer, Star: Steele, he ap- pears charming, witty, and outgoing much the same as the characters he played in Walt Disney's "The Happiest Millionaire" and in Paramount's "Half a Sixpence," too. But Tommy Steele is more than just a happy star he is a seri- ous, emotional young man who has learned about life's rough side, too. Tommy's rise to stardom has been meteoric since his smash success a scant three years ago in the London and, Broadway stage version of "Half1 a Sixpence." Tommy quit school at the age of 15 and left England, signing on as a seaman aboard a New d ship. "That year at' sea taught me more about life than 10 years of schooling," Tommy says. "I learned that life can be beautiful and ugly, generous and petty. It's all up to you." After a tieg of spinal meningitis, which almost took his life, Tommy went back to sea a far more mature person. During his illness, he felt the strong pull of God. "I still don't believe in formal religion, but I do believe in God, who has certain laws which we must obey." Signing on the cruise ship Star of Bermuda, Tommy made his first contact with the then new American craze, rock 'a' roll. "One night I heard a recording of 'Dedicated,' a song in memory of Hank Williams. I had learned to play the guitar when I was younger, so I bought one for myself," Tommy says. Back in London after a two-yetour at sea, Tommy, then York-boun- ar iffiMEZ AaI WJG I ) - (1 ommy first meet ss, E- --a "impossible Amis Wl spoffirmer v -- I : jCj ' Lives of WHEN " V The Many YOU fabulous-new-efibrtle- If W .'7 hi Steele S IS, was signed by a recording-compan- y agent who heard him Soho. in Tommy proceeded sing to record a satire of American rock V roll, but amazingly the t Britain's first idol. It nearly drove rock-'n'-ro- ll him to despair. "I felt like the performer who can't sing, cant dance, can't act but can't quit because he is a star." His new found fame brought movie offers, which he accepted. 'I made six films in England, four of them rock V rollers, and all of them bad," he says. "I desperately wanted to 'be a part of show business, but I knew that to be a part I would have to give up ll the image. Sc I cancelled my recording contracts and left for Australia." He spent four months there, four months he now refers to as his "wilderness period." Returning to England, he landed the juicy role of the humble draper's apprentice in "Half a Sixpence" and appeared in 1,500 performances of the play in London, and New York. Tommy and his' wife of seven years, former actress Ann recently bought a home in Ocho Rios in Jamaica, where they plan to spend as much time as he can squeeze from his tight schedule. "Ann and I love the place," Tommy says. "That's where we found peace, tranquility, and friendship." 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