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FROM SHOP COUNTER

S TO HOLLYWOOD STARDOM FILM STARS’ BEGINNINGS j If you want to be in motion picI tures don’t hide the fact that you j once worked in a store. Many Hollyi wood stars have done it. Take that company seen recently in “Road to Singapore.” Dorothy : Lamour never has made a secret of the fact, when she was young and ; taking Thespic lessons, she earned her way as an elevator operator in ( Chicago’s Marshall-Field’s. i Bing Crosby, too. and Bob Hope, | who co-starred with her in the picture. are department store graduates. . Bing was once a cash boy in a store j in Spokane, while Bob is proud of | the fact that he once vet a weekly : sales mark in Cleveland for dispos--1 ing of shoes. Director Victor Schertzinger, who alternates between handling players | in pictures and writing songs, says j that he once sold pianos in New ! York. ! Ellen Drew, who is starring with 1 Preston Foster and Andy Devine in ! “Geronimo!” once ran the candy dej partment in a Chicago store, j Charlie Ruggles volunteered to ' run the drug department. His father i was a wholesale druggist and wanted ; Charlie to take over the business, j Jack Benny, who is making “Buck ! Benny Rides Again,” put in his bid. : “I want the haberdashery section,” ! he declared, “I learned all about it j as a kid in my dad’s store in Waukei gan.” Patricia Morison. who has her first starring role in “Untamed,” used to [ draw designs and advertising layj outs for a Fifth Avenue store in New j York. | Madeleine Carroll, now co-starring with Douglas Fairbanks, jun., in “Safari,” admitted that she once modelled and sold hats in a London store. There are many more. Cary Grant once ran a men’s store. Frances Dee sold stockings one Christmas holiday season in a Chicago establishing Greta Garbo modelled and sold i hats in Stockholm long before she i heard of Hollywood. George Raft spoke up and declared that he wanted the sporting goods concession, once having run a similar department in a New York store.

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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

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FROM SHOP COUNTER Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

FROM SHOP COUNTER Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)

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