Jinx Falkenburg

Imagine coming off the boat from Chile and within a year working in the studios on these giant sets on great pictures. My family had lived in South America where my father was an engineer, but after the company closed, we left and got off the boat in New York. The Depression was just barely lifting and we were living a block from the L.A. Tennis Club. All of the producers loved tennis and we had a lot of invitations to play so that opened up all kinds of doors to jobs. I was signed with Goldwyn when I was 16. We were sustained by those acting jobs. SAG is one of the biggest pluses of my life because of the benefits I've reaped since I was 17. Once you were a member, you could call Central Casting, so we called all the time. I was able to work because of SAG.