Even the Butler was Poor

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Speaking of screen stars, there’s a mosquito. – Franklin Pierce Adams

There’s an old story about a Hollywood school child (in the days when the children of movie stars went to schools in Hollywood) who was instructed to write an essay on poverty. “Once upon a time,” this moppet wrote, “there was a very poor family. The father was poor, and the mother was poor. The butler was poor; the maid was poor; the chauffer was poor, and the gardeners were poor.” – Alex Barris

American motion pictures are written by the half-educated for the half-witted. – St. John Ervine

Benito Mussolini was paid two dollars a day in Rome for playing an extra in Sam Goldwyn’s The Eternal City; Leon Trotsky made three dollars a day (in 1915) when he played in Rasputin at Fort Lee, New Jersey; the Duchess of Windsor, then known as Wallis Simpson, is reported to have drawn down five dollars from extra work in many pictures in Hollywood. – Leo Guild

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