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He Became a Star (Continued from page 63) ahead, I felt that maybe I’d have a chance, during those lonely, frustrating months, to sweat off some of the fat around my waistline and a little more off my big head. “When I came back to Hollywood, I returned humble and eager. I was anxious to take any part offered me, no matter how small it was, no matter how unimportant. All I hoped for was that I might be able to stick around so I could learn enough to be worth something — someday. I knuckled down to work. For a long time it was all work and no play, but it was worth the effort; it paid off.” Dick’s efforts paid off well. In “Underwater!” he has his first real bid for stardom, his first big opportunity to show what he can really do. Fantastic as it seems — considering Dick’s six feet two of rugged masculinity, his thick brown hair, his deep blue eyes, superb speaking voice and strong rugged features — “Underwater!” is Dick’s twenty-first picture. Yet so crazy a place is Hollywood that nobody discovered him until he took off his shirt. It was as the leading loin-clothed gladiator in “Demetrius and the Gladiators” that Dick made this important exposure of his talent and started a new trend in his career, one that accents his physical prowess. As a result, the mail immediately poured in on him and he got his first straight lead in “Wicked Woman.” “Wicked Woman” did no great shakes at the boxoffice but it wasn’t because of Dick. His talents were recognized and he went into “Gog,” then into the lead in “Khyber Patrol” with Dawn Addams. When Bob Mitchum decided not to go into “Underwater!” with Jane Russell, Dick was tapped for it. He got the male lead as Jane Russell’s husband, which he didn’t find hard to take. At the end of the first two weeks of shooting on “Underwater!” the whisper was already around Hollywood on him, and 20th Century-Fox got him on the dotted line, with plans that are super-CinemaScope collosal. 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