Brice Hutchins, just another 26-year-old hoping to make it in Hollywood in 1934, was also a man of secrets. In the worst days of the Great Depression, having heard that the movie industry was looking for “Western types,” he was seeking work under a stage name and falsely claiming Texas as his birthplace. But Charles was really from Joplin, Missouri. And his real past was far more impressive than his dubious claim of being a Texan.