tv star collector
12-23-2005, 09:12 AM
At 23, Harrison Ford made his film debut, as a clerk delivering a telegram to
James Coburn in the film "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round." The Columbia brass
weren't impressed, esp. a producer named Jerry Tokovsky, who called Ford into
his office and explained to him what a star was. Or rather, what a star WASN'T
--which was Ford.
"Kid," Tokovsky said, "in the first movie Tony Curtis ever made, he played a
grocery clerk and you could take one look at him and know, THAT is a movie
star."
Ford, unfazed, replied, "I thought the point was that you were supposed to
look at him and think this is a grocery clerk."
(Source: PEOPLE magazine)
James Coburn in the film "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round." The Columbia brass
weren't impressed, esp. a producer named Jerry Tokovsky, who called Ford into
his office and explained to him what a star was. Or rather, what a star WASN'T
--which was Ford.
"Kid," Tokovsky said, "in the first movie Tony Curtis ever made, he played a
grocery clerk and you could take one look at him and know, THAT is a movie
star."
Ford, unfazed, replied, "I thought the point was that you were supposed to
look at him and think this is a grocery clerk."
(Source: PEOPLE magazine)