HOW IT HAPPENED (SOFTCOVER EDITION) by Gary Clarke

Imagine a day in 1967, sitting in your small, quiet office, facing an Underwood Noiseless typewriter and writing a comedy script for Get Smart. Then, picture yourself the very next day, emoting before cameras as an actor in an episode of the Civil War series Hondo. Those were the two lives of actor/writer Gary Clarke as he co-existed in an industry that rarely crowned either with success.  This nostalgic autobiography presents a rare look into his feats and failures in both professions as he lived them throughout hundreds of films, television shows, radio shows, and plays.   From Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1958), The Virginian (1962-1964), Hondo (1967), and Tombstone (1993) to directing his new screenplay, So You Wanna Make a Movie! (2016), Gary knew firsthand the haunting unemployment that led actors to meals of crackers and ketchup, yet he also tasted the caviar and epicurean coffee in the banquets that follow success and fame. The story of the