"In 1955 Steve landed the male lead in a new off-Broadway production, TWO
FINGERS OF PRIDE, which co-starred Sam Jaffe, but it soon closed and with
nothing else happening, Steve decided to return to class. Because he was now
a "working actor", meaning he had actually earned money for his work, he was
eligible to try out for the mecca of training schools, Lee Strasberg's
Actors Studio, where the acceptance rate was about one out of two
hundred...For his audition, Steve put together a monologue from Clifford
Odet's GOLDEN BOY..." {Steve McQueen, Marc Eliot page 29} |