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After a stint with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater and a short period of vagrancy involving hitchhiking, freight hopping, picking fruit, logging in the Pacific Northwest ( Preston Sturges conceived the film Sullivan's Travels after hearing Garfield tell of his hobo adventures ) Garfield made his Broadway debut in 1932, in a play called Lost Boy.

It ran for only two weeks but gave Garfield something critically important for an actor struggling to break into the theater: a credit.