Underground film stars hitchhiked and scraped by to work on unreleased movies.

Evidence

That summer, Jacobs attempted a reconciliation, inviting Smith to meet him in Provincetown, where, having failed to find a dishwashing job at a hotel in the Poconos, he had hitchhiked. Ready to play, Smith hitched to Cape Cod from New York with a wicker basket full of props (boater hats, granny gowns, Atlantic City T-shirts, and teddy bears). — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 206

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