:05:00
Forty-eight hours later, I made every
newspaper around the country.
:05:04
"Big splash: New York businessman dives
into pool and comes out movie star."
:05:09
Was I lucky? I think so.
:05:12
If I had stayed just an actor, Norma
never would've given me a second look.
:05:16
What caught her eye was a young
go-getter, sure about himself. Persuasive.
:05:21
A subliminal reminder of the man who
was once her mentor and her husband.
:05:26
It's the old story, though.
Luck doesn't happen by mistake.
:05:29
Rather, luck is when opportunity
meets preparation.
:05:37
As soon as the picture wrapped,
I flew back to the Big Apple.
:05:40
Evan Picone was on fire...
:05:42
...the showroom packed with them leggy
ladies prancing in their patrician pants.
:05:46
It was turn-on plus. My brother Charles had
built the top fashion company of its time.
:05:52
Me? I was lucky to be part of it...
:05:54
...never having a second thought
about returning to La La Land.
:05:57
Why should I?
:05:58
In New York, I was a celebrity.
From debutante, to starlet, to model.
:06:02
There I was on their most-wanted list.
Was I enjoying it? You bet your ass I was.
:06:09
One night, my brother and I took
a few femme fatales to El Morocco.
:06:13
Me? I didn't feel like conversation,
so I hit the dance floor.
:06:17
Well, that night someone had eyes
for me, and it wasn't her.
:06:21
It was Darryl Zanuck, head
honcho of 20th Century Fox.
:06:25
He had no idea who I was.
But just looking at me, he thought:
:06:29
That kid's right to play the
matador opposite Ava Gardner.
:06:32
After years and years of knocking
on doors, being turned down...
:06:36
...here I am, discovered to star
in two pictures within six months.
:06:41
That's what you call incident, and that's
what's also known as sense of discovery.
:06:46
Thank God, I was the one discovered.