Keen Film Aspirants Face Any Difficulty
TRAMPS TO HOLLYWOOD A few months ago a girl tramped 300 miles to Hollywood in search of fame before the cameras. “And others have done harder things than that to get here,” she told an amazed official. With these words in mind a casting director examined his lists of registered extras and set about inquiring how they came to Hollywood. More than 30 male extras owned up to having “ridden the rods’* (stowed away on the under-carriages of freight trains), or had “jumped a ride” in goods trucks. Two men, now employed as stunt aviators, flew their own planes to Hollywood. Tim McCoy rode into the cinema city at the head of a band of redskins belonging to a travelling troupe, was seen by a studio executive, grabbed as a technical adviser for an outdoor picture then under production, and later graduated into the ranks of film players. Gwen Lee, blonde leading lady, drove her faithful flivver from a middle-west town to Los Angeles. One girl got to Hollywood from Kansas by asking for “lifts” from passing motorists. Another hid in a linen-cupboard aboard a Pullman coach.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 25
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193Keen Film Aspirants Face Any Difficulty Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 25
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