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Love is The Path
In 1925, Huston married his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Harvey, and also took his first professional stage bow with a leading role off-Broadway entitled “The Triumph of the Egg.” He made his Broadway debut that same year with “Ruint” and followed that with another Broadway show, “Adam Solitaire,” the following November. John soon grew restless with the confines of both his marriage and acting and abandoned both, taking a sojourn to Mexico where he became an officer in the cavalry and expert horseman while writing plays on the sly. Trying to control his wanderlust urges, he subsequently returned to America and attempted newspaper and magazine reporting work in New York by submitting short stories. He was even hired at one point by mogul Samuel Goldwyn Jr. as a screenwriter, but again he grew restless. During this time he also appeared unbilled in a few obligatory films.
By 1932 John was on the move again and left for London and Paris where he studied painting and sketching. The promising artist became a homeless beggar during one harrowing point.
— Cinema Shorthand Society
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“An avuncular figure in my youth passed on a piece of advice his father had given him: ‘Don’t work at anything simply for the money. Choose your profession as you would choose a wife, for love AND for money.’ I have faithfully abided by the first half of that…
