Virginia Grey

Spending the $5 it cost to join SAG was the best bargain I've ever had in my entire life. I signed a stock contract with Warner Bros. as a chorus girl in 1933 and the conditions were terrible. We'd work from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 the next morning, with no lunch hours or dinner breaks. All we had to sit down on were benches. I was on the SAG board from 1948-'51 and I remember when my health insurance was canceled because I was at risk being an actor. I told Ronald Reagan, who was the President of the Guild then, and he listened, even though he had broken his leg and it was in a cast, propped up on a desk in our tiny office on Hollywood Boulevard. He and others helped out their fellow actors, so I just can't say enough great things about SAG.