While enrolled in the pre-med program at Berkeley, Gregory Peck took a trip to New York City, where he saw Vera Zorina in "I Married an Angel", and changed his priorities, withdrawing from medicine and joining a small theater group on campus. After returning to NYC in 1939, he won a scholarship to the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse School of Dramatics, and his acting career took off. The plays in which he appeared ("Morning Star," "The Willow and I," "Sons and Soldiers") were less than successful, but Peck's excellent notices attracted the attention of Hollywood. The scarcity of leading
While a 19-year-old undergraduate at UC-Berkely, acted in his first play, an adaptation of "Moby Dick", in which he played the first mate Starbuck
1928
Travelled to New York with Berkeley crew team for competition; stopped off in NYC and saw first Broadway show, "I Married an Angel"; inspired to become an actor
Suffered spinal injury; could no longer compete in sports
