Biographical Information on RKO Radio Pictures Personalities (1935)

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Rutgers Neilson RKO Radio Pictures Biographical Information RKO Building Radio City, New York SLEEP ' N T EAT (RKO Radio Pictures) (Sleep ' N' Eat's real name is Willie Best. He was born in Mississippi, but Willie just doesn't remember where or when. He is tall, thin, and very dark. He likes to fish, he says) CAREER Willie Best drove some white folks to Hollywood from down south, went broke in southern California, and caught on with a traveling show. Film people saw him and brought him to Hollywood. Willie has appeared in several pictures, among them "Kentucky Kennels," the RKO Radio Wheeler and Woolsey comedy, and "Little Mise Marker," the Shirley Temple picture. He has also appeared in several RKO Radio shorts. He gets a nice salary, but the studio gives him only $5 a week spending money, as he is a come-easy-go-easy spender of the Stepin Fetchit type. The rest goes into a trust fund. He hopes, vaguely, to retire to Mississippi with enough funds to allow him to sleep, eat and fish 100 percent of the time. #####