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...were spoken very sharply and very fast at a World's Fair ride called the Meteor Speedway. The lines began: "A-thrill-a-second-a-mile-a-minute-around-the-walls-of-an-upright-BOWL! . . . Come on, brother . . . defy the laws of gravity! . . ." Shortly before the venture folded, Peck took a job ushering tourists around Rockefeller Center, where his performances were no more outstanding. Until he learned better, he innocently assured other eager outlanders that Brooklyn was a part of New Jersey. He once fell asleep in a box while his charges outstayed (by an outrageous 20 minutes) their...
...year scholarship at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse. Broadway Producer Guthrie McClintic saw him and signed him for a last-act bit in the road tour of Katharine Cornell's The Doctor's Dilemma. On that tour, Peck met and later married Greta Konen, a tiny, bright-blonde Finnish girl who was Cornell's hairdresser...
After a dreary series of revivals, summer stock and out-of-town closings, McClintic gave him a role in a 1942 Broadway show, Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star. The show soon folded, but the critics had some nice things to say about a new juvenile named Gregory Peck...
...kind notices encouraged Peck and interested Hollywood enormously. The young actor earnestly wanted to become a good artist in a good Broadway play. But after three flops in a row, he began to feel that a little ready money, quickly made, would be very nice indeed-so long as it was clearly understood by everyone that after one picture he was going straight back to Broadway...
Pieces of Peck. Hollywood, a hard place to get into, is even harder to leave, once you're in. Peck's "one" picture, Days of Glory, was a rather pathetic Hollywood attempt to make a Russian-style "art" movie. It was not a box-office success; but before it was released and before most of Hollywood had even seen it, Peck was one of the most sought-after properties in town...