Tommy Kirk, a child star of Disney movies and later beach-party movies of the '60s, got his big break doing Eugene O'Neill.
From Wikipedia: In 1954, Kirk, 13, accompanied elder brother Joe to an audition for O'Neill's ''Ah, Wilderness!'' at the Pasadena Playhouse. Joe was not cast, losing out to Bobby Driscoll, but Tommy was, and he made his stage debut opposite Will Rogers Jr. "It was five lines, it didn't pay anything, and nobody else showed up, so I got the part," said Kirk. An agent from the Gertz agency saw Kirk in it and signed him, and the rest is history ... |
