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FIRST MOIMEY
To Ben Lyon, his first cinema check was a sort of "Certificate of Validity" to prove to his friends that he was actually "in the movies." And then he lost the check before he cashed it!
value than money however, in being able to ex ploit myself as a movie actor through that first pay
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JOHNNY MACK BROWN
VE never got over the way I spent my first movie money. I was so excited when I got my first salary check that I called the folks on long distance to tell them all about it. I could not wait to write a letter and a telegram would not accomplish my end. I wanted to hear for myself how the shock of learning that I was acting in the movies affected them.
I learned all right. First, I talked with mother. TJien she a.sked me to wait just a minute, that my kid brother wanted to a.sk me something. 1 waited. In fact, I kept on waiting and listening until everyone in the family down to my baby sister and littlest brother had found out just how It felt to' be acting in the movies and rubbing elbows with Greta Garbo, Jack Gilbert and other big stars on the lot. When my call .as completed, I found that I had only one dollar and eiglity cents left from my check for my expenses until next pay day. But it sure was worth it. And when I saw my family in the flesh, as they say, it was thrilling to tell them all over again, md in detail, what it was like to work in the movies. But it wasn't half as thrilling as that telephone conversation.
That first money was spent on some things wise and some foolish — why not?
KAY FRANCIS
LOVE animals, especially dogs.. I can hardly bring myself to pa,ss even a stray dog without patting it on the head. When I first came to Hollywood, I saw the most adorable little puppy for sale in a pet shop. I paid a' deposit on him and when my salary check came, I went right down and brought him home. Believe it or not. I bought him and a Ford coupe to bring him home in. I adore Scotty and Fm not ashamed to drive my little coupe around town, either. In fact, I am slightly proud of both of them. They were the first things I purchased with my own money. Having my own dog and my own car made me feel as if I belonged, and I have never been homesick or lonely since I came to die movie colony.
FARINA OF OVR GANG
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At the time she received her first pay-check. Clara Bow was phonograph-crazy— and still is. She owns several, and adds to her collection as often as a new one pleases her.
Laura La Plante (shown here in Jiggs in Society, one of her first pictures, released in 1920) spent her first movie money on shoes — lots.
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