Demi Moore she told another interviewer, "I was 17 years old. I was underage. It was just the cover." Moore made her film debut with a brief role in the 1981 teen drama "Choices", directed by Silvio Narizzano. Her second film feature was the 3-D sci-fi horror film "Parasite" (1982), for which director Charles Band had instructed casting director Johanna Ray to "find me the next Karen Allen." Moore then joined the cast of the ABC soap opera "General Hospital", playing the role of an investigative reporter until 1983. During her tenure on the series, she made an uncredited cameo appearance in
Archie Moore the role of the runaway slave Jim in Michael Curtiz's film adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", opposite Eddie Hodges as Huck. Moore garnered positive reviews for his sympathetic portrayal of Jim, which some viewers still consider the best interpretation of this much-filmed role. Moore did not choose to pursue a full-time career as an actor, but he did appear in 1960s films such as "The Carpetbaggers" (1964), "The Hanged Man" (1964) and "The Fortune Cookie" (1966), and on television in episodes of "Family Affair", "Perry Mason", "Wagon Train", "The Reporter", "Batman" (episode 35) and the soap