To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.