JIM PLANNETTE - Gaffer
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Did You Go on Sets Where Your Dad Was Gaffing?
In 1954, my mother and sister and I went to Rome to spend the summer with my dad who was working on Land of the Farrows on stage in Rome. One day the assistant prop man came up to me and he said, hey, Jimmy, you want to be my assistant? He said, I'll pay you 10,000 lira a week, which was $16. So I make it across the stage, and my dad sees me. He says, what are you doing? I said, I'm theAssistant Prop Man for Howard Hawks. "You'll go far," his father told him. But that was really, Joan Collins was only 22 years old at the
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