By By J. Mark Powell, InsideSources.com
Monday, Sept. 2, 2024 | 2 a.m.
these titans of leisure for his or her appearing and singing talents. Lengthy earlier than they reached stardom, every labored a daily job to pay the payments. Which well-known particular person did which job earlier than changing into a star? Take a look at your data with this quiz.
1. What job did Elvis Presley as soon as maintain?
A: Home painter
B: Truck driver
C: Carpenter
D: Bulldozer operator
2. This early job put John Wayne on the trail to changing into a film legend. What was it?
A: Scriptwriter
B: Make-up artist
C: Set prop mover
D: Audio technician
3. Whereas honing his craft as a crooner, which superstar singer as soon as delivered newspapers and was a shipyard riveter?
A: Perry Como
B: Bing Crosby
C: Dean Martin
D: Frank Sinatra
4. How did film star Brad Pitt as soon as pay the payments?
A: Delivering singing telegrams
B: Male stripper
C: Dressing as a hen
D: Giving interpretive dance classes
5. What early job did rocker Freddie Mercury maintain?
A: Journey agent
B: Baggage handler
C: Pet groomer
D: Manicurist
6. What late-night TV speak present made cash in highschool as a magician?
A: Johnny Carson
B. Dick Cavett
B: David Letterman
C: Jay Leno
7. Singer Madonna lasted only one week at this job:
A: Hairstylist
B: Waitress
C: Doughnut maker
D: Caterer
Solutions:
1: B. Earlier than being topped the “King of Rock ’n’ Roll,” Elvis drove a truck for the Crown Electrical Co. in Memphis, Tenn.
2: C. As a favor to Southern Cal’s soccer coach (who gave him free sport tickets), director John Ford employed the hunky 6-foot-4 inch younger man to lug surroundings and props round film units. That led to him being an additional, then to some talking components, after which … the remainder, as they are saying, is historical past.
3: D. Ol’ Blue Eyes labored his method out of his Hoboken, N.J., neighborhood whereas additionally paying his dues as a singer.
4: C. Although he’s been making moviegoers swoon for greater than 30 years, nobody acknowledged him in a single function. Pitt donned a hen costume and waved at passing drivers exterior a restaurant.
5: B. Years earlier than belting out “We Will Rock You” as frontman for the supergroup Queen, Mercury labored as an unglamorous baggage handler for British Airways at London’s Heathrow Airport.
6: A. The long run king of late-night TV did magic tips for $3 a present whereas in highschool. He later spoofed himself in his recurring “Carnac the Magnificent” sketches.
7: C. She might have been a Nineteen Eighties icon because the “Materials Lady,” however earlier than that, Madonna made doughnuts at a Dunkin in New York Metropolis. She instructed Howard Stern she was fired for “taking part in with the jelly squirter machine.” (She was additionally a hat checker on the Russian Tea Room. Briefly.)
J. Mark Powell is a novelist and former TV journalist. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
