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May 26, 2008
One of my favorite lessons from Roy H. Williams
Taking a break away from keyword research, I thought I'd write a little bit about one of my favorite lessons from Roy H. Williams.
If you have not heard of Roy, he is also known as "the Wizard of Ads."
Rolling the clock back a few years back....
The New York Times tells us, "There was once an actress who embarked on a show-business career at 15. She began by going to Manhattan and enrolling in John Murray Anderson's dramatic school.
From the first, she was repeatedly told she had no talent and should return home. She tried and failed to get into four Broadway chorus lines, so she became a model for commercial photographers.
She won national attention as the Chesterfield Cigarette Girl in 1933. This got her to Hollywood as a Goldwyn chorus girl. For the next two years she played in unbilled, bit roles in two dozen movies.
She then spent seven years at RKO, where she got leading roles in low-budget movies. But she was wrongly cast and mostly wasted in films."
She then eventually ended her lackluster career on the silver screen without any fanfare in 1948. At a time when she was considered to old
to be a "Hollywood star," she went on to literally transform the entire entertainment industry. To find out who she was and see the full story as Roy H. Williams tells it, please visit this link.
I hope you enjoy this story as much as I did the first time I read it.
I highly recommend you subscribe to Roy' Monday Morning Memo.
If you want to see some excellent film noir watch the Dark Corner with Lucille Ball. I was watching it the other night and she really was under rated by Hollywood. After that, I switched over to watch some Science Fiction that night, but there was no Lucille Ball in:
The Day the Earth Stood Still. (One of my favorites)
Does anyone today remember Lock Martin? Literally a giant actor who stood 7 feet 7 inches tall and played the role of Gort, the giant robot.
John Alexander
http://www.SearchEngineWorkshops.com
Like the only REAL magic - the magic of knowledge.
Posted by John at May 26, 2008 05:54 PM