In this picture , you may see the fifteen - year - old Ray Bradbury — long before his notable writer days — mystify with the unbelievable movie star and Isaac Bashevis Singer Marlene Dietrich . How did this encounter ?
Over on Dangerous Minds , Tara McGinley contextualizes this singular yoke with a few relation quotes from interview that Bradbury did over the year . He told Playboy that he ’d locomote to Hollywood with his family when he was fourteen , and that he have sex to chase down movie stars on his roller skate :
I was madly in love with Hollywood . . . I skate all over Ithiel Town , hell - bent on get autographs from glamourous stars . It was glorious . I saw big MGM stars such as Norma Shearer , Laurel and Hardy , Ronald Coleman . Or I ’d spend all day in front of Paramount or Columbia , then soar upwards over to the Brown Derby to observe the star come or going . I ’d see Cary Grant , Marlene Dietrich , Fred Allen , Burns and Allen — whoever was on the Coast . Mae West made her appearance — bodyguard in tow — every Friday Nox .
In a LIFE interview , he added :
I still have my autograph and a few roller skate ball bearings left over from those years so long ago . Almost all of the multitude I meet then are fail , but miraculously Marlene and George have endure . The Christ Within that come out of these characterisation is a constant rerun of my animation as a somewhat silly but always bed son , atrociously reluctant to enter manhood .
The thought ofBradburyas a teenage skater , have a shot taken with Dietrich , made me feel nostalgia for a clip I never even live through . Absolutely adorable , but also pensive and beautifully unconvincing , just like Bradbury ’s full piece of writing .
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