Screenland (Nov 1945-Oct 1946)

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It was while I was swimming that I got a chance to go into a dancing act with the Municipal Opera Company, in St. Louis. They were looking for a blond boy, and when they asked me if I wanted to join, it was okay with me. We did adagio and ballet." At the end of the second season, Bill organized his own stage act with four boys (including himself) and a girl. The act was very successful. They toured here and abroad, giving a command performance for the royal family while in London. Leaving England on the last boat before war broke out in 1939, they returned to tour the United States, and opened at Earl Carroll's in Hollywood on Christmas Day, 1942. While there, Bill studied celestial navigation, and finally left the act to become a shuttle pilot for Consolidated Airlines. From that he was called for Army service, but when an old spinal injury began to interfere with his duties there, he was given a medical discharge. Then it was time, Bill thought, to really take stock and get going on a definite career. "I needed money when I got out of the Army," he said. "A girl I knew said, 'Why don't you try to get in pictures?' It sounded like a good idea to me. So I hunted up an agent, read for him, he liked me and started to peddle me." As simple as that. For Bill, that is. Yes, going into movies was just a matter of getting hold of the most dollars and cents in the least possible time. No stardust in his eyes, no great acting urge to express. Just a healthy, youthful desire to get the most out of life while he can put the most into it. But don't get the idea that Bill regards acting as a cinch. Far from it. He thinks it's easier than engineering, but not easy. And Bill's not the type to slough off anything. Whatever he does, he wants to do well. Not only wants to, but will. You can bank on that. "I like acting," he says, "and I want to be a good actor. I can't act now, I know that. But I will. Give me five years or so, and I'll be an actor, because I've made up my mind to be. When I make up my mind to do something, nothing stops me— nothing! Mr. Pereira (Bill Pereira, RKO producer) says, 'Luck is preparedness meeting up with opportunity.' I'm getting the opportunities, and it's up to me to make myself ready for them." "And how, are you going to do that?" "By keeping my eyes and ears open, and my mouth shut. I'm going to listen to the people who know— like Lukas." Hollywood only recently found out how well Bill can keep his mouth shut, when the news leaked out that he had just been divorced from a wife nobody (not even his studio) knew he had! Bill considers the whole matter strictly his own business, and all he will say on the subject is that the marriage, which took place several years back when he was on tour, was washed up a long time ?sro, the recent Maybe only birds were meant to fly! That seems to be what is bothering Ann Sothern in this scene from MGM's "Up Goes Maisie." divorce being just a matter of finishing up unfinished business. And he doesn't see why anybody even cares. All he's interested in now is learning to be a good actor. Well, perhaps not quite all. For Barbara Hale certainly doesn't belong on any list of things that do not interest Bill Williams. "Everything I do is natural— so they tell me," Bill continued. "Childish, even!" teased Barbara. "Sure, I'm childish," said Bill, poking his fist in the general direction of Barbara, and throwing her one of those irresistible smiles, "and I want to stay that way. I don't want to pick up any of the tricks." "Any particular kind of parts you're ambitious to play?" "Nope. I just want to do any kind of part that comes along, and do the best I can with it." Bill was running down, but Barbara, who had kept still as a mouse and listened intently (having been warned beforehand that this was Bill's interview and she must keep quiet) now had some ideas that were bursting to be said. And why not? For these two kids think and work together so closely that whatever one says goes for the other, too. "I think one thing that's awfully hard, when you're starting in this business," said Barbara earnestly, "is to know whom to listen to. Everybody starts giving you advice, and each person will say, 'Don't pay any attention to what that person says. Do what I say.' What I've decided is that you should listen to everybody. You can get some good out of what nearly everybody tells you, but you can't swallow what anybody says just hook, line, and sinker. You have to sift the different ideas, decide for yourself which ones apply to yourself and your own circumstances, and let the rest go." Pretty straight thinking to come out of such a young and pretty head. But that's the way these kids are figuring things out. The indications are that they intend to show the world that careers and marriage can be successfully blended, and the chances are that they will. They're T6 SCKEENLAND