Clint Eastwood is about as towering a cinematic figure as they come, but back in the 1950s, he was just a struggling young actor looking for a break. In a 1971 interview with Rex Reed as recorded in “Clint Eastwood: Interviews” by Robert E. Kapsis and Kathie Coblentz, Eastwood recalled his early career when he was stuck playing a lot of “motorcycle hoods and lab assistants” on screen. A string of these bit parts had him on the verge of quitting altogether. That was, until “Rawhide.”
“I was visiting a friend at CBS, and an executive saw me drinking coffee in…
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