Michael Caine Biography
electrics at a big wedding and was sacked. He'd not do much better at his next proper job, as an odd-job lad at the mighty J. Arthur Rank Organisation, getting fired on his second day for smoking in the toilets. At 18 it was time for NationalFridays at Solosy's bookshop on Charing Cross Road. This he did and, sitting in Leicester Square, noted that the only suitable vacancy was for an assistant stage manager who'd also play small roles for a company in Horsham, a small provincial town to the south
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