Playboy Interview: Jack Nicholson

April, 1972

Playboy Interview: Jack NicholsonNothing brings a warmer glow to Hollywood's gloomy faces than a revival of the overnight success story--the performer who was unknown one day and a star the next--that was so common during the film capital's halcyon days. In the case of Jack Nicholson, the overnight success story took 14 years to write. After a long apprenticeship--mostly as a heavy--in a plethora of low-budgeted B movies, Nicholson finally scored with his funky, funny portrayal of George Hanson,...