 Angela Lansbury (qv) was only 17 when she made this, her film  debut. She had been working at Bullocks Department Store in Los  Angeles and when she told her boss that she was leaving, he offered  to match the pay at her new job. Expecting it to be in the region of  her Bullocks salary of the equivalent of $27 a week, he was somewhat  taken aback when she told him she would be earning $500 a week.