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To Outstay A Studio
Douglas McPhail, who did well for himself in "Sweethearts."
That's if you want to eat while waiting for that elusive call to sign on the dotted line.
mogul comes along and begs them to sign a contract.
Well, meet two new contract players at Metro and learn from their own lips what they did to eat regularly while waiting for that proverbial "break" that landed them in the world's largest studio. Theirs are representative case histories. They are young men of great promise and you will hear a good deal about them as time goes on. They are potential stars.
Right now Tom Neal is just about the busiest man on the Metro lot. He and Jack Carlton came to Hollywood together a few months ago, took a room in a boarding-house, and started making the rounds of the studios. It was a slow, heartbreaking process, and their meager funds were exhausted before Mr. Metro agreed to consider them.
But meanwhile they had to eat. And so they went to a bakery and applied for a job. Plenty of bread, and even pies and cakes, in a bakery. They were two
Doug and his wife, Betty Jaynes, at home — harmonizing.
By Leon Surmelian
Workingat a service station while "at liberty."
YOU have read about the lovely blondes, brunettes and red-heads who juggle trays in Hollywood restaurants in the hope of being discovered for the hllums. After all, Ellen Drew was a waitress in a tea room. I know a beautiful stenographer at Universal who is walking on air because she has been given a screen test. Hollywood is full of eyefuls, who toil as waitresses and stenographers and manicurists and usherettes and salesgirls and models, and even escorts to packers and barbers from Kansas City and Chicago, while waiting for some producer or director to say to them: "Eureka! You're just the gal I've been looking for."
But how about the young men who come here to show the established male stars a thing or two about acting and singing and making love on the screen? What do they do, what can they do, for a living before some movie
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