4 Quotes & Sayings By Vincent Louis Carrella

Vincent Louis Carrella was born in 1909, and attended the University of Michigan until 1932, when he dropped out to enlist in the army. He spent his time in boot camp training as a military policeman, but later decided to pursue acting instead. He received his first break in 1926, when he appeared on Broadway in Clifford Odet's play "The Revolt of Mamie Stover". He soon joined the screenwriting team of Lew Brown and George E Read more

Ingram, working on several films before going solo under the name Vincent Carrella. He moved to Hollywood in 1937 and worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox.

In 1939 he married Betty Grable, became a naturalized citizen of the United States, and eventually gave up screenwriting to focus on acting. He was cast as an Italian-American detective in "Hell's Angels" (1930) with James Cagney and as a gangster in "The Roaring Twenties" (1939) with Judy Garland. In 1940 he was cast as a baseball player in the film "People Will Talk" with Jean Arthur.

In 1942 he starred as a private detective in "Meet John Doe" alongside Barbara Stanwyck and Van Johnson.

1
The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are. Vincent Louis Carrella
2
We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace. Vincent Louis Carrella
3
Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration. . Vincent Louis Carrella