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June 1960

AA on Location

A familiar film and TV personality tells how alcoholic movie actors find ways to drink even in remote filming areas

FIRST OF ALL, to the uninitiated, I would like to explain that "location" in the motion picture business means to film a picture, or a part of a picture, away from home. Now this may sound very simple, but to go on location one must get there first, and that means the entire company is transported in a body in a chartered plane. Since wives or husbands, as the case may be, very seldom go on location, the whole thing takes on the nature of an air-borne office party. No sooner is the "No Smoking" and "Please Fasten Your Seat Belt" sign turned off than bottles appear from nowhere and. . .need I go further?

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