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The Most Dangerou:',
Charles Bickford's size, voice and he-man personality are so well suited to the tvpe of role he makes convincing that CLASSIC asked him if his real life had had any o£ the same tough action he portravs on the screen. The story he tells here is his answer — and a potent one. It is a story that contains more "hidden past" than has ever heretofore been revealed by a motion picture star. In telling it, he was emphatic that it should he printed just as he told it — without any "sugar-coating." — Editor's Note.
AT present I am a movie star in Hollywood.
f\ A few years ago I was a rum-running racketeer
/"^ in Maine. / m And, of the two, I would much prefer the life of a rough and ready racketeer to that of a movie star, any day! Not particularly for the money there is in it, but because it's more interesting and exciting. Real adventure. This business of standing in front of a microphone" and "acting" tough is like a howl of cold soup — after some of the actual adventures I have been through.
I have always labored under an innate rebellion against all law and order. In fact, I have never been much for obeying laws — that is, unless I had to or because I just happened to agree with a certain statute. I realize that we must have a good many laws in this state of advanced civilization in which we live, but I don't like them and I never obey them when it is more enjoyable or profitable to pass them up. My heart and soul have an unquenchable thirst for adventure and I have found that strict adherence to laws has always been more or less of an obstacle in my path.
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No synthetic adventurer: Charles Bickford, the hardboiled Irishman of "Anna Christie" (lefti and the heman sailor of " The Sea Bat " (below), had his first sea fight just outside of Boston Harbor
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member of the "Forty Thieves," a gang of young hoodlums that infested the East End of Boston. We were a prettv tough bunch of youngsters and were famous tot settling accounts for that whole end of the town. In al fairness, however. I must say that we made it a practice to steer clear of those who allowed us our own ideas. There are probably a number of citizens who remember us as a bunch of row.iv hellions. We were. And 1 w.is the so-called leader!
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