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Moreover, if you haven't given Cary Grant credit for a lively sense of humor as well as a sane outlook on life, you will after reading this swell interview
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HAT would you do," I asked Cary Grant as we sat on the set at Columbia where "The Awful Truth" was being filmed, chatting about this and that, "if you found yourself at the end of your career and with no money ?"
"Well— I don't know," Cary replied, reflectively, "I'd never even thought of it. Guess I'd just
start over again, and go out and look for another job."
And the funny part of it is, that's about what Cary would do if he were confronted with such a problem. Certainly, it wouldn't be the first time he's been broke and had' to take the first job that came along to keep on living. There were plenty of long, lean years after Cary ran away from his home in England to seek his fortune when he didn't know where his next meal was coming from. And I can assure you Cary's present enviable position hasn't softened him to the point where he wouldn't be able to buck those same hardships again.
"In the first place, Ginny," Cary went on, "I don't think the day will ever come when there will cease to be some medium of entertainment. I believe it will always exist in some form or another — maybe not for myself, as an individual, but certainly for us of this profession.
"Look back at the first days of the depression in thi 3 country. Theaters went out of business, to be sure, but not nearly in proportion to other businesses. People would spend their last half dollar to go to a movie or a vaudeville show, just to take their minds dff their own troubles.
"Charlie Laughton said something to me one time that made a very deep impression on me. I was terribly depressed one day at the studio — you know, in one of those Russian cellar moods. I happened to run into Charlie on the Paramount lot, where we were both working at the time, and started to tell him all my troubles.
" 'Did you ever stop to think, Cary,' Charlie said, 'that all those people in the audience who see your pictures are faced with the same problems — and probably worse difficulties than you are? It's something that occurred to me years ago when I first went on the stage. I was feeling very sorry for myself. I didn't think I'd ever make a success of acting. I was terribly upset about financial matters and life just didn't seem worth the living. And suddenly it dawned on {Please turn to page 70)
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