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He spiels satirical versions of the holy Academy Award dinners, mimics the winners mercilessly, and dismisses even his chosen dining companions as the "dullest people imaginable." He wallows in distemper. He refused to eat at the studio commissary for six months because the management accused him of hogging two <;ups of coffee during rationing. Cregar was indignant enough to spill the extra coffee — a gift from a nearby abstainer — surge past three weeping, head-shaking waitresses, one hysterical hostess, and the irate manager-in-chief, and eat at the Beverly Brown Derby regularly until the commissary manager made a formal apology. At the insistence of Mr. Cregar 's assembled directors who could no longer afford to wait production while Laird ate in angry splendor down the street. They're still fighting it out, however, with Laird — forty minutes late for shooting last week — because the commissary hostess "forgot" to inform him — on the temporary receiving end. In an unexpected surge of filial love recently, Cregar imported his mother, plus his aunt and two brothers, to come live with him in a house in Santa Monica he couldn't afford anyway. Three days later Laird clashed with Mom (a decisive character named Bess) , moved out, checked off the experiment as "costly and unwise," and found a one-man house in the middle of a lemon grove where he and his notable hulk have to crawl in sideways. With five miles of good beach land between them. Laird is a good son again, editing Mother Cregar's autobiography a chapter at a time, and contributing notably to her support. So notably, that when he wanted to buy a house of his own he found only six thousand dollars left in his bank account, although he collects $2,000 a week regularly from his grumbling bosses. Cregar is in Hollywood through a Rotary Club fluke which financed his trip out from Philadelphia and set him up to a course of lessons in acting at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. Cregar, not in training to be indebted to a Rotarian, has paid back every cent. "I was planning to be the writing white hope of the theater, not the acting gray hope of the screen," he counters, trying to talk away his Rotary backing, and the spirit of brotherhood, in general. Cregar was big and jolly and kind at Pasadena, and came out of the two-year course marked as the Second Most Likely to Succeed, following a romantic juvenile, at 165 pounds, who came out first. Right after graduation Cregar ran out of money so he moved into the back seat of a parked sedan and spent his nights sleeping pretzel style. Mornings he ■toured the Hollywood casting offices and. came away with the impression that he was a "grotesque type." "Too big, too fat, too young, too old — too fresh!" Oh.'' Cregar forthwith decided he'd have to swing a part for himself if he was serious about keeping his bulk at its usual flabby mark. He scooped up the coast rights of the play "Oscar Wilde," found an ice-cream manufacturer with a yen for the theater to put up the money, a jobless Mack Sennett man to direct, and the trio went right out to make history on Hollywood Boulevard. "I was magnificent." Cregar says, soberly. The ice-cream man has long since gone back to Iowa, and the dairy business, and the Mack Sennett man is still looking around for a job. Cregar was so good as "Oscar Wilde" that the studios which had previously dismissed him as "grotesque" now submitted so many offers that Sammy could say no to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with Tracy, Beery, and Arnold to buck; no to Warners, with Sidney Greenstreet, Alan Hale, Huston, and Claude Rains around before actually signing with Twentieth Century-Fox, top-heavy with musical comedy favorites. Right after Cregar finished one of his fat character parts, something he describes more accurately as "shmaltzy," in "Ten Gentlemen From West Point," he turned his eyes to the stage again, foaming over the possibilities of playing the starring role in a West Coast version of "The Man Who Came To Dinner." A few days of mulling over the growling Sheridan Whiteside and Cregar was ready to open up shop on Hollywood Boulevard again, with or without the dairy industry behind him. A month later he was playing to overflow business. With the theater-going West Coast clutching him to its rock-bound bosom, Cregar watched from his prop wheel chair, noted well, then sped out to Burbank between the Wednesday matinee and evening performances to insist upon playing the Whiteside role in the film Warners was going to make of the play. He was laughed off the lot and resentenced to his Delineations-in-Technicolor. back at Fox. "Now MGM is making 'The Picture Of Dorian Grey,' and they tested everyone in sight for the Oscar Wilde part. Do you think they even asked to test me for it.''" Cregar fumes illustratively. "No!" Cregar is one hundred pounds lighter now than he was either as Wilde or Whiteside — result of a bird-like diet, thyroid shots, and six weeks of lying flat on his back in a hospital. His new waistline mellowed his fife for a short while. Right after the pounds oozed off he played an understanding devil in "Heaven 76 SCREENLAND