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Movie stardom
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relied on the fact that
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that Cy was an American and not an English director.
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And the length of the bar at the Prince of Wales theatre in the west end—
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’cause it’s a very long bar.
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And that’s where he was auditioning.
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And I went to play a cockney corporal, and when I got there,
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he had already given it to my friend James Booth.
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Another real cockney like myself.
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A-a-an-and when I was walking out
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I got right to the door, and he said,
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‘You don’t look like a cockney to me.’
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He said, ‘You don’t really look that tough or anything.’
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He said, ‘You look like one of those upper-crust officers. Can you do that ?’