Also, I think more and more people are yearning to get out of the big cities, have a garden, and maybe go hunting or fishing. |
Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten. |
As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans. |
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. |
Before that I had one day's work in The Bowery Boys Go To Africa. I played Tarzan. The Bowery Boys were about to take Jane back to civilization, and I discouraged them from doing that. |
Boy, after doing television for all those years, doing all those scenes-rush, rush, rush-what a pleasure. |
But as luck would have it, Warner Bros. saw my screen test, put me under contract, and I wound up making Cheyenne. |
Cecil B. DeMille was a very demanding man. But he was demanding on himself as well. |
Cooper would always kid me about my hats. He'd tell me I should get a bigger hat. |
Funny thing, but when I first got to England, I felt very much at home there. |
Heck, at times I was off two weeks at a crack. I was able to get around London and visit those fantastic museums. |
I always liked going to the movies, but my big problem was that I didn't have much time to see that many movies. |
I began having problems with Warner Bros. They were letting other people do films, and I wasn't doing many, so I walked out for a while. |
I did a thing called Cry of the Wolf where I got very good reviews. |
I didn't finish high school. I wound up working for a big paper mill. Then I went to work loading box cars and glass ware. |