Three years earlier, a twenty-two-year old beauty, Carolyn Shaw, arrived in Los Angeles. There was not a doubt in her mind that she would make it big on the silver screen. She stayed at the YWCA for a couple of months, and worked a myriad of part time jobs. Finally, she found a small furnished studio apartment that she could afford, and she rented it. Having a place of her own, gave her a sense of belonging, which had eluded her at the Y.
For more than a year she went to open audition cal