Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must not complain, for a life dream has come true. I am in Hollywood, California, the source of all this century's legends. No pilgrim to Lourdes can experience what I know I shall experience once I have stepped into that magic world which has occupied all my waking thoughts for twenty years...
Enter Patrick Curtis, a Hollywood product if there ever was one. At age two he won the Adohre Milk Company's Adohreable Baby Contest, a ringing triumph that earned him the role of Olivia de Havilland's baby in Gone With the Wind. He later played Ma and Pa Kettle's ninth kid, changed his name from Smith to Curtis (after his boyhood hero, Tony). When he was 13 he landed the TV role of Buzz in Leave It to Beaver; his eternally boyish face and buck teeth allowed him to keep the part for six years. Patrick wanted...
...sight. As Raquel recalls it: "He saw me and I saw him, and we put our heads together." The result of this cerebral huddle was the creation?three weeks later?of Curtwel enterprises. Shortly thereafter, things began to happen. Bikini picture in LIFE. Billboard girl on ABC-TV's Hollywood Palace. Twentieth Century-Fox contract. Said Fox Talent Director Owen McLean: "We thought we would build her up slowly; that it would take some time. But she got more publicity by accident than most girls get on purpose...
...million and raked in money. Another south-of-the-border oater, Bandolero, gave Raquel the opportunity to demand of Dean Martin, "How duss hay man get to be han hanimal like ju?" Such lines at least scotched rumors that Raquel was a crypto-Chicano; her accent was pure Hollywood...
...Hollywood is finally at my feet. Beyond that, ambition stops and godhood begins...