When I was almost fifteen I joined a travelling theatre troupe and started going on trips around America. It was on one of these tours that I was offered a 1 in a film, which I accepted. As a result, I went to Hollywood, where I eventually became a director as well as an actor. m
When I was a child, I could never have predicted my future fame and fortune. My 2 life was a time of great hardship, although my family had started off living quite comfortably. We had even had a maid to help out in the house. Our financial situation, however, gradually got 3 and in the end we lost everything. The family became so poor that at one stage my brothers and I had to take it in turns to 4 the only pair of shoes we had. Years later, a lot of these childhood experiences found their way into my films. I loved being the centre of 5 in films, something which I had never been as a boy.