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— wy Bob Hope breaks a long Bob chats with Father English, friend of many stars, Jeanne Crain, Paul Brinkman. Fears tnat Jeanne’s new glamour would injure her marriage have proven false. Not so lucky was guest Jame Withers, whose divorce is imminent. Ci thie SE 7 > Bob's 12-year-old son Tony, and daughters Nora, 5, and Linda, 14, help Dolores Hope blow out the candles while members of famous Trapp Family Singers, who entertained at the party, look on. Tony wore full-dress military school uniform. Bob waltzes with mother-in-law, Mrs. Teresa Defina. One of Hollywood's best citizens, Bob is constantly active in charity attairs; his home is one of Hollywood's happiest. LOUELLA SHARES BIRTHDAY WITH © DETERMINED is Rita Hayworth to marry Dick Haymes that neither lawyers, studio nor friends can talk her into changing her mind. Incidentally, unless Dick can persuade Nora Eddington Haymes to get a divorce in Nevada or Alabama, Rita cannot marry Dick for a year. Nora insists on a California divorce, since out of state divorces are vulnerable to legal attack. The serious trouble Dick had with the Im- migration Department came as a_ terrific shock. Few people knew that he was an alien, was born in Argenting and had signed away his rights of ever becoming an Amer- ican citizen when he avoided the draft by reg- istering as an alien neutral. Dick’s attorney insists that the McCarran Act does not hold in the case of the singer, since he sang twice in the Civic Auditorium in Honolulu and did not go to the Hawaiian

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NEWS gala party at his home. MRTG Niightse ad Gracie Allen, half of another famous Mary Livingstone feeds a cherry to husband, Jack Benny. husband ond wife comedy team looks on while she waits for George Burns. re : Newlyweds Ann Blyth and Dr. James McNulty toast each other over a flower- decked table. Most of the ladies wore or carried sprays of fresh garden flowers; Mrs. Hope wore a lei of white carnations over a pleated pastel dress. Loretta Young and Mary Livingstone find an almost quiet spot in the spacious Hope livingroom. Among the many other famous quests were Robert Young, Jerry Colonna, Fred MacMurray and Pat O'Brien, all old friends of the Hopes. LUCILLE BALL . . . JANET LEIGH SAYS NO TO NUDITY. . . GLORIA DE HAVEN HAS NEW IN-LAW TROUBLES Islands for the express purpose of seeing Rita Hayworth. That he did see her every night and every day has nothing to do with the case, according to the Haymes attorneys. At the time the story broke, I must say for Nora that she came to Dick’s rescue. She said, “Poor guy! I don’t believe he ever tried to dodge the draft. I know he went twice to the draft board and tried to enlist, but was turned down on account of high blood pressure. If he wants me to, I will stick with him in his troubles.” Rita was equally loyal, but she couldn't very well make a public statement, since Dick was still married to Nora. She was so upset by the whole thing that she took to her bed in a state of nervous collapse. Is there anybody in the world who gets herself into more awkward situations than this redheaded glamour girl? With every husband, with every romance, there is trouble and good copy. The big question around Hollywood these days is—who put the finger on Dick? Or maybe the boys in Washington have a long memory. ol ee new love in Olivia de Havilland’s life, the charming Frenchman, Pierre Galante, will probably be her husband by the time this reaches MopERN SCREEN. Olivia confided to me that she wouldn't wait too long to marry Galante, who is a writer and an executive on “Match” magazine, a French publication comparable to our “'Life”’. I met Livvy’s fiancé at a party given for Rosemary Clooney and José Ferrer. He is young, he is charming and he is desperately in love with Livvy. She tells me that he was born under the same sign as Marcus Goodrich, her first hus- band, and that they both love cheesecake, but I believe she will be happier with Galante than she was with Marcus. Livvy seems to favor writers, but Pierre has none of Marcus’ moodiness and critical appraisal of our Livvy. Besides, he has never been married before and Marcus had a num- ber of wives. T CAN be told now that there were two days when Donald O’Connor was very ill in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and his doctors feared it might be polio. Only a few people know this. Thank God, it was just tropical fever and Don will soon be well. Added to his high temperature was an emo- tional upset. He worried about every little thing and telephoned me in a panic because someone had printed that his ex-wife Gwen O’Connor, had never been near him. This was entirely untrue, because Gwen has not only been with him, but has tele-

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LOVELLA PARSONS’ good news Continued phoned to inquire about him almost every day. Of course, she probably didn’t want to run into Marilyn Erskine, although the two girls are not unfriendly. Gwen is the one who asked Don for a divorce. The thing that everyone regrets so much is that Don lost his role in White Christmas. He would have been just as wonderful dancing again with Vera-Ellen as he was in Call Me Madam. HE saddest little woman in Hollywood is Jane Withers, who fought with grim de- termination not to break up her marriage, but the one thing her rich husband, Bill Moss, seemed to want was his freedom. "With three children,” Jane told me, “I think it is wrong for us to divorce and I wanted to wait a little longer. But when a man wants his freedom as much as Bill does, what can I do?” Jane's health is not good and her doctors tell her that she must rest and not get emo- tionally upset. How can you help getting emotionally upset when the man you love says he doesn't love you? ] SHARE the opinion of many people that Suzan Ball’s faith will cure her knee if anything in the world can. She has a new doctor who has put her on a special diet. I hear this is a new treatment for this kind of case, Also, Suzan is in love. Dick Long is court- ing her, but she won't marry anyone until she is sure she is all right. Suzan is that kind of girl. peo OPINIONS: In my opinion, Debo- tah Kerr was trying to disguise her per- sonality on a TV program when she answered the question, “Are you from Hollywood?” with “Unfortunately, yes.” I dont think she meant a slam at Hollywood .. . I still can't see James Mason as Judy Gar- land's co-star in A Star Is Born. Maybe I’m remembering Fredric March's great perform- ance with Janet Gaynor too vividly...... Even with Jeanne Crain's pretty legs, I can't stand the knee-short skirts. So far, Jeanne is the only glamour girl to fall for the Dior fad. Kinda cute, the way Tony Curtis, who has never been a fast boy with a dollar, cut loose with the bankroll and bought himself a John Hodiak has been seen at Ciro's with pretty socialite Kay Williams Spreckels, John's first date since his breakup with Anne Baxter. new $6000 car and Janet Leigh a diamond bracelet, after U-I upped his salary in a big, big way. Rosemary Clooney and José Ferrer are denying the stork rumors now, but I’m bet- ting Rosie will have a baby as soon as pos- sible. She loves children. ep oe myself to Del Mar, the little racetrack where “the turf meets the surf,’ for my birthday and really had a time! It was also Lucille Ball’s birthday and after the last race, Desi Arnaz tossed a surprise birthday party for Lucy in the Turf Club. Poor Lucille! She was so sick she could remain just long enough for the guests to sing “Happy Birthday” and then she had to take off for home. It wasn’t anything too serious with Lucille. She was just tired and over- worked and a reaction set in when she went on her holiday. But I was feeling in fine fettle and got such a kick out of little Desirée Arnaz, looking like a doll in her blue dress and coat, warbling a special ‘Happy Birthday” to me. I just can’t remember having more fun. Jimmy Durante—just love that man—was on hand at my birthday party at the Del Mar hotel and he sang and sang. The crowd didn’t want to let him off, but he finally said it was enough. Then pretty May Wynn, the former Copacabana chorus girl who got the plum part of the season as the only girl in The Caine Mutiny, came on and delighted LATE NEWS FROM LOUELLA PARSONS @ Hardly had the public heard about the Ida Lupino-Howard Duff separation (sup- posedly a result of Howard's interest in Gussie Moran, famous for her lace panties and her tennis game) when it was all over. My telephone rang and a happy Ida said, “Howard and I want you to know we've reconciled.” By this time, Gussie was in Buffalo with her fiancé, Edward Hand, and Howard hadn‘t heard from her. Gussie had a small part in The Bigamist, written and pro- duced by Collier Young, Ida’s ex-husband, and directed by Ida. Howard and Ida were both in the picture, as was Joan Fontaine, Young’s present wife. Ida, like any woman in love, took much of the blame for the separation, saying, “I guess I was too self-centered and too involved in my career. Now I'm just going to be a wife and mother and I’m going to let somebody else direct The Story Of A Cop, Howard's next picture. a marriage.” A career, to my way of thinking, should never interfere with She added that Howard’s big complaint was that they never saw each other. John Payne and Sandy Curtis have taken out a marriage license, will wed when John ends cur- rent film. This will be third marriage for each. everyone with Jimmy McHugh’s song, “I Can't Believe That You’re In Love With Me”. Wait until you see May. I think you'll agree she’s going to be one of our big stars. Glamorous Elaine Stewart drove down from Beverly Hills with her fella, Johnny Grant, especially for my party. Some of the column- ists have been insisting this isn’t a serious - romance. I don’t agree. In fact, I think Elaine and Johnny may surprise everyone, including her MGM bosses, by marrying when he returns from staging his disc jockey show in Korea. Johnny told me, “I’m very much in love with Elaine. She’s the only girl for me.” To switch from romance back to the races —the next day Betty Grable’s and Harry James’ nag, Big Noise, won the $40,000 fea- ture race. A wag said, “Betty's horses seem to know when she isn't working and they always seem to win when she can use the moola.” Hh": hoping the trouble between Gloria De Haven and her wealthy bridegroom of just a few months, Martin Kimmel, isn’t seri- ous. I get it straight that Kimmel’s family, veddy, veddy social, never approved of his marriage to Gloria because she is an actress. Thought that sort of attitude went out with the dodo bird. At this writing, the Kimmels have not yet received Gloria, but I hope they will change their minds. She’s a very nice girl. Le a lot of stuff and nonsense that Janet Leigh’s swim scene in Prince Valiant is as nude as Hedy Lamarr was in Ecstasy or as Marilyn Monroe was on the calendar. Janet tells me, “I have to admit that the scene makes me look as though I were in my birthday suit! As a matter of fact, I'm quite well covered in a bathing suit made of a flesh- colored net material. “However, after I did the scene, I flatly re- fused to let the still cameramen snap pictures of me—because I have no intention of becom- ing this kind of calendar girl.” Janet says that when the swimming scene was shot, the only men present were the cam- eramen, director and Bob Wagner, all vitally necessary to the action. No, Tony Curtis did not kick up a fuss. But it is not his favorite screen appearance of his pretty wife.

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DUELLA PARSONS’ good news * Continued’. | Sadat story back of how Johnnie Ray’s | movie career at 20th got “hot” after be- ing very, very “cold.” After the studio signed the cry-singer, he managed to get quite a bit of bad publicity | in various parts of the country, and he made tactless remarks at the time of his separation from Marilyn Morrison Ray. It had been all set for the weeper to be in Ethel Merman’s There's No Business Like Show Business until all this came up. Then, with- out any fuss or bother, it was agreed it might be better to let Ray sit out his contract. But boss Darryl Zanuck was summoned to Washington to be a dinner guest of President Eisenhower at the White House. By coinci- dence, Ray was singing in a local theatre the same week. Darryl had never seen Ray perform and having a bit of idle time on his hands, he de- cided to drop by the theatre just as Johnnie’s act went on. Result? The boss thought the “‘cry-Ray-by” was just terrific and telephoned 20th that his contract was very much “alive” again. HE LETTER BOX: Mrs. P. M. J., of Kansas | City, wants to know if the movie stars spank their children or discipline them by the | more ‘progressive’ methods. Screen star parents are just like private-life parents on this score, Mrs. P. M. J. Some believe in mild spankings (Joan Crawford, for one). Others adhere to the “progressive” school of thought. | Doris Waterstram, Johnstown, Pa., is a | strong rooter for Richard Carlson, “that fine | gentleman and actor” who, she feels, doesn’t | get his share of good screen parts. Marlene Oechsner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, writes: “I believe that Jane Powell and Gene | Nelson cannot possibly know the terrific dis- | illusionment their actions have brought to the teen-agers of this country.” I haven't been printing service men’s ad- dresses lately, but I couldn't resisi the plea of two who say, “We are probably the two most unknown people in Korea, as far as receiving | mail is concerned.” We can't have that, so write to: CPL Fred W. Ponder RA19378184 HQs & Hgs Battery, 75th FA Bn APO 264 c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, California And to his buddy, PFC Robert G. Larue RA13425501, same address. That's all for now. See you next month. Ts eee ‘ - Donald O'Connor attended Joanne Gilbert's 4 Mocambo opening with frequent date Marilyn Erskine just before illness sent him to hospital. New Mum with M:3 kills odor bacteria ... stops odor all day long PROOF! New Mum with M-3 destroys bac- teria that cause perspiration odor. Photo (left), shows active odor bac- teria. Photo (right), after adding new Mum, shows bacteria destroyed ! Mum contains M-3, a scientific dis- covery that actually destroys odor bacteria . . . doesn’t give underarm odor a chance to sfart. Amazingly effective protection from under- afm perspiration odor—just use new Mum daily. So sure, so safe for normal skin. Safe for clothes. Gentle Mum is certified by the Amer- ican Institute of Laundering. Won't rot or dis- color even your finest fabrics. No waste, no drying out. The /y leading deodorant that contains no water to dry out or decrease its efficiency. Usable right to the bor- tom of the jar. Get Mum—stay nice to be near! For sanitary napkins — Mum is gentle, safe, depend- ahle...ideal for thts use, too. A Product of Bristol-Myers 1%)

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modern screen in the news The quiet Wayne marriage exploded into court last summer and hasn’t left : the headlines yet. Now after months of trial by rumor, Duke can answer back. the stand BY SANDY CUMMINGS m@ Barring a last minute out-of-court settlement, Hollywood and the public are going to be treated, on October 19, to one of the toughest, roughest legal battles ever waged between a movie star and his wife. John Wayne, forty-six, and his hot- tempered, excitable, thirty-year-old wife, Esperanza, are scheduled to throw the book at each other in a divorce suit that will make world-wide headlines. These two handsome people, once so fendenly and romantically in love, now dislike each other with such violence and intensity that they are prepared to make public the most private aspects of their marital confusion. “Chata,” as Mrs. Wayne is known throughout the film colony, has charged John Wayne with beating her. That charge is already part of the public record. So, too, is Duke Wayne’s denial. “I have never in my life struck Mrs. Wayne,” the actor testified in court last May. “But there have been many times,” he continued, “when I have had to protect myself from her temper. I’ve held her hands and feet but only to protect myself.” When Wayne made that statement in court, his wife, sitting next to her lawyer, suddenly crimsoned. “Why! That’s a lie,” she blurted out. Spectators smiled. The picture of Duke Wayne, six feet, four inches tall, weighing 200 pounds, protecting himself from Chata, five feet, seven and 135 pounds, conjured up such a comic scene, that several of the more uninhibited people in the courtroom were startled into laughter. : : There is no doubt (Continued on page EO

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I haven’t been in Hollywood very long but here I am a star in Paramount’s new picture “Forever Female.” You KNOW all the other stars in the picture but you probably don’t know me from Adam! Well, maybe from Adam because I’m a girl. And that’s what “Forever Female” is all about... girls and naturally men. Jeepers, isn’t that what every- thing is all about? But in “Forever Female” we’ve got a new—and very funny — slant on it. First, there’s a TRIANGLE com-: posed of three big stars... Ginger’ Rogers as a glamorous Broadway’ actress; Paul Douglas as a producer: and Ginger’s last year’s hubby; William Holden as a playwright and Ginger’s this year’s hobby. Then I step in and throw the whole thing into a QUADRANGLE! WOW!99 $e DY on gS | Ws G par Produced by Pat Duggan Directed by Irving Rapper - Written Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein Suggested by J. M. Barrie’s play “Rosalind” A Paramount Picture.

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7a DEVIL'S CANYON Five hundred men and a girl (Virginia Mayo) are serving time together in the Yuma Territorial Prison, a prison that makes Sing Sing look like heaven. Virginia has it easy—she works in the hospital. But Stephen McNally, a brutal killer, Dale Robertson, who shot McNally’s brothers in self-defense and 498 other prisoners, in- cluding Arthur MHunnicutt, aren’t ecstatic. The warden (Robert Keith) is okay, but the chief guard (Jay C. Flippen) is slightly sadistic. He figures it’s a good day when three or four prisoners expire on the rock pile. He doesn’t like Dale. Neither does McNally, who throws a knife at him in the mess hall. Well, McNally and Mayo plan a break, and McNally is bent on turning all the inmates in the direction of Yuma, trusting they will lift the lid off that town. He, personally, will lift the lid off Dale Robertson. But you know what happens to the best laid plans. Naturally, this is in Technicolor and 3-D.—RKO. the crown of Louis XIV. Gilbert Roland throws senior to the guards, but takes junior to India. India is rife with diamonds. India also has a jungle, in the middle of which is a pool, in the middle of which is, of all people, Arlene Dahl. She’s bathing. Arlene is Queen of the Nepalese who are currently dying of thirst. It hasn’t rained out that way since the diamond eye of their goddess was stolen. To get it back, Arlene will marry Sheldon Leonard, the Great Mogul. He promised it to her for a wedding gift. Give me the diamond, says Fernando to Mogul, and I'll give you France’s secret weapon, so you can conquer India. Sure, says the Mogul, much to Ar- lene’s displeasure. That Mogul gets blown to kingdom come during an impromptu demonstration. But Ar- lene never liked him, anyway. Sujato and Asoka revive interest with their Indian dances. Techni- color.—Warners. ’ i Ati, = THE MOONLIGHTER A lynching mob breaks into jail to hang Fred MacMurray for “moonlighting” (rustling cattle after dark) but they nab some poor critter instead and MacMurray rides back to Barbara Stanwyck. Not that she wants him. You’re bad, Wes. bad, she tells him. I don’t want no part of you. I and your kid brother are going to be married. Kid brother is a hulking young fellow in his thirties (William Ching) who works in a bank and is dying to rob it. MacMurray and Ward Bond give him the oppor- tunity. Danged if Stanwyck isn’t sworn into the posse to track ’im down. Time she catches up to Mac he’s pretty disgusted. He didn’t want to be a “moonlighter.’” He did want to get even with the lynchers, which vengeance he effected by lassoing a few of them and dragging them over the rocks behind his horse. But somebody forced him into this sordid life. Somebody’s initials are B.S. who urged him to get off the farm and make something of him- self!—Warners. _ eepsake DIAMOND - TALBOT Ring $675, (White Gold) Wedding Ring 150 . VISTA Ring $300 Also 100 to 2475 Wedding Ring 12.50 . PINEHURST Ring $200 Wedding Ring 100 Man’s Diamond Ring $100. Available at 75 to 250 to match all engagement rings. All rings available in either natural or white gold. Prices include Federal tax. Rings enlarged to show details. ® Trade-mark registered. PHONE WESTERN UNION’S “OPERATOR 25" FOR YOUR KEEPSAKE JEWELER'S NAME 27 We RINGS Such wonderful dreams are reflected forever in the radiant beauty of a Keepsake Diamond Ring. For Keepsake is the bride's traditional choice ... the perfect symbol of love. If the name Keepsake is in the ring and on the tag, the diamond is guaranteed, registered and perfect. At better jewelers everywhere from $100 to $10,000. : aust O84 2003 > CO Guaranteed by > Good Housekeeping Noor KEEPSAKE DIAMO SYRACUSE Be NEW YoRIeS Please send free booklets, ‘‘ The Etiquette of th and “C Oosing Yau Mapa er REE a MSC 11-53 ond Co, Syracuse Antwerp. Amsterdam

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modern screen /november 1953 ee a They were married twice— to each other, and now they've come to their second separation. After seven years of trying, “Tt just didn’t work BY ALICE FINLETTER @ A tall young actor was sitting in his room in the Hotel Sherry-Netherland leoking down on New York’s Central Park. His name was Jeff Chandler, and he had come to the big city to do promotion work for a film, The Great Sioux Uprising, in which he was playing the lead. This thirty-four-year-old giant with the deep bass voice and the prematurely grey hair should have been happy. After all, S this was his home town. This \ was the return of the native, a classic example of the local boy who had made good to the tune of almost $3,000 a week. Only Jeff wasn’t happy. He_had just finished speaking to his wife in Hollywood, and Marge hadn’t changed her mind. She wanted a divorce. No hurry about it, but after seven years of trying, they both knew it-was hopeless. Divorce was the answer. Jeff got up and paced his room, and as he did, a soul-searing realization over- whelmed him—the more successful his career, the less successful his marriage. In seven years he had worked his way up from nothing to full-fledged stardom, and in those samé seven years his marriage had deteriorated (Continued on page 81)

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AS TOLD TO HOLLYWOOD’S GREATEST REPORTER. @ She had been in hiding for the few days after the story of their startlingly sudden separation broke. When she came in, I noticed she was trying to keep one side of her face away from me. “Susie, darling, don’t do that,” I said, “I already know about that black eye Jess gave you. Don’t you know, by now, that you don’t have to keep anything from me? I’m your friend.” Suddenly, she was in my arms, not crying or sobbing, but holding me tight, just as she used to do when she was one of my little starlets on our stage road tour _ and someone had hurt her feelings. No, she was not crying as I patted her shoulder, because she was past that stage. The tears had dried up long before this, or else they were dropping back inside instead of spilling down her, face. That poor eye. So discolored and swollen. The whole side of her face was puffed, distorting ‘ one of the loveliest faces in the world. It was as though an artist with a misplaced sense of drama had made one side of a woman’s face perfect and the other bruised and discolored. The girl I have known and been fond of for so many years sat down and started talking almost in the middle of -her story, as though — the deep hurt were crowding to come out. - “We had been quarreling, and I saw he was going to slap me. He had slapped me many times, i] but this time I could tell it was going to be worse. “His face was so distorted with rage I knew he had lost control of himself. I knew I was in great physical danger. “T was brought up in a tough section of Brooklyn and I’ve seen men get drunk on their pay nights and beat up their wives, but it was nothing like this. “He went after my face and I kept running from him, first all over the house and then down by the swimming pool where he caught me.” In a voice so low I had to lean close to hear her, she told me how he beat her unmercifully, blacking both eyes and bruising her body. Susan’s screams brought the police to the house. Neighbors had telephoned them. (Continued on page 87)

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By Kirtley Baskette The Hestons have had only one joint vacation in ten years of marriage— and even then, they read scripts.

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They say goodnight on the telephone and they see each other on a movie screen —but the hectic Hestons are making their long-distance marriage work! ne lonesome evening, a dainty, bru- nette doll called Lydia Clarke ‘was happily watching her favorite actor, Charlton Heston, perform Shakespeare’s Macbeth on a television program. Suddenly she screamed, clapped her hands over her hazel eyes and blanked out, mercifully. Mrs. Heston had swooned at the sight of a grisly head—unmistakably her husband’s— hacked off at the neck, dripping blood and lifted up by its familiar curls before her very eyes. : Luckily, Lydia came to in time to see the man she loved taking bows with a per- fectly sound Adam’s apple and telling his pub- lic he hoped that they had enjoyed the show. Obviously, one of these—his wife—had not. Lydia hadn’t known about the flesh colored, rubber head, carefully molded to a perfect likeness of Chuck’s features for that gory touch of realism. Her big, lovable, exasperat- ing husband had neglected to tell ‘her about that. Fortunately, Lydia Heston’s recovery from the shock was complete, although she wasn’t quite herself for days. She had time to reflect that the long distance married life of two actors left a few things to be desired. At other times, Charlton Heston has had the same misgivings. On a recent night, for instance—this time when Chuck was in Hollywood and Lydia in New York—he put in a midnight phone call and soon heard the familiar feminine tones of his wife saying, “Hello . . . hello.” But at the same time he heard an unfamiliar baritone saying the same thing. Chuck clicked the oper- ator impatiently. “Something’s wrong,” he complained, “Try it again.” She did; same result. Back came the wifely greeting—and the same disturbing man’s voice too. Well—you know how husbands are. “Look,” barked Chuck, “I may be old fash- ioned—but just what the hell is a man doing in your apartment at three o’clock in the morning?” There was, Lydia came back sharply, no man in her apartment, but obviously some obnoxious male character on her party line. “Get off!” yelped Chuck to the unknown kibitzer and was invited in colorful language to get off, himself. So all that came of that tender long distance contact was a three- cornered hassle, rising blood pressure and some sleeplessness for the Hestons. Both Charlton and (Continued on page 83) Chuck feels he has a lot to learn about acting, does TY and theatre work besides movies. Major ambition: to be world’s greatest Macbeth. Both Hestons like outdoor living: hope to settle down in a rustic hunting lodge on their 1300 acres in Michigan's wild north woods. r BS ow Evenings together are rare. The Hestons spend many domestic hours in railroad stations, wave anniversary greetings from separate planes.

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ee Le how ever can they stay so in love? @ To the sleepy gas station attendant, the slim figure rapping at his glass door looked like some little girl lost. It was plenty past midnight in Hollywood and he’d seen her scurry across Sunset Boulevard from the darkened front of Schwab’s Drug Store. Her round, brown eyes under the blonde, bun-tucked hair looked anxiously troubled, and he thought, “Some dame who got ditched by her date after a hassle.” So when she said, “Mav I use your telephone?” he just grunted, “Help - yourself,’ and went back to the race track results. But he looked up again when she told the operator, “New York, please,” and started feeding half-dollars into the slot as if it were a Las Vegas one-arm bandit. You couldn’t blame him for - eavesdropping a bit after that but he didn’t hear much. Just this girl telling some Joe across the country, that -she loved him and couldn’t sleep until she heard (Continued on page 60) The impromptu “badminton ~ ballet’ shown in these exclusive photo- graphs was created for MODERN SCREEN's photographers—who innocently asked-for a few pictures of Marge and Gower Champion at home, ‘just behaving normally!”

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Dress her in jeans, hide her in timber. When Marilyn takes to th Marilyn has traded Hollywood for the north woods—but just till her new picture is finished. Now she's sitting on fences instead of cushions, wearing blue jeans, and falling into rivers! by Rickard, Moone ™ Wrapped in blue jeans instead of marabou, Marilyn Monroe was camping in Jasper National Park with the rest of those who were working on River Of The Sun. No matter how Marilyn is costumed, she doesn’t look as though she belonged in the north woods. As a matter of fact, although she’d surely look more natural : in southern California, she doesn’t seem to notice where she is, just now. , For Marilyn Monroe is the most married girl you've ever seen! For months, everybody has been reading about Marilyn’s romance with Joe DiMaggio. Would she marry him? Wouldn’t she? : Here’s the answer to that. This is a girl in a dream. True, she’s wrapped. up in her career. So wrapped up that when a visitor arrived on the location scene, he found her pacing back and forth between takes muttering lines. She looked up, caught his eye, said, ‘“When did you get back?” and kept right on pacing and rehearsing. Later she sat down with him to talk it over. ‘““There may be a surprise. for you on the train tonight,” he told her, repeating the rumor he had heard (Continued on page 80)

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At twenty-six, Ava’s carefree air hid two tragic marriages and a mixed-up heart. But ‘see what four years: with Frankie have done! BY WILLIAM BARBOUR @ During Ava Gardner’s playgirl period, before she had become the second Mrs. Frank Sinatra, she frolicked in a Hollywood night club with that perennial escort of beautiful women, Peter Lawford. Ava danced with verve and abandon and grace. She sang as she danced, and occasionally her lips would break into a wide smile as Lawford whispered sweet nothings.. Back at her table, she imbibed freely, chain-smoked, greeted friends with warmth and delight; in on she appeared to be a classic Hollywood Sybarite. One man, a wise old MGM executive sitting in a corner booth with his wife, wasn’t fooled. “You see Ava Gardner?” he asked. The wife nodded. “There,” said the old man, “sits the most. mixed-up girl in Hollywood. This one,” he went on, “doesn’t know whether she feels sad or glad.” “A very beautiful girl,” the wife of the MGM executive said. “In fact, the most beautiful girl here.” The studio executive nodded slowly. “Unfortunately,” he said, “it’s all exterior beauty. All on the face. Inside, ” he tapped his chest lightly, “the poor kid is bedeviled. A million little devils scurrying inside her soul. I don’t think she’ll get rid of them until she is thirty. Maybe not even then. Time will tell.” A few weeks ago, he was. reminded of his appraisal of Miss Gardner and assured that she is thirty years old now. Does he think she is emotionally unscrambled? : The executive smiled wryly. “To begin with, - Ava is now Mrs. Frank Sinatra.” Does that make so much difference? The executive paused (Continued on page 88) Dies ee, Scat

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_WITH LAD HAT ALL HE WANTS IS HOLLYWOOD AND A HAMBURGER! mg BY BERT PARRY @ In my pursuit of the Alan Ladds,-I checked in at the lush and famous Banff Springs Hotel. Getting lost is a hazard in this tremendous castle-like structure which can accommodate 1200 people. Although it was dwarfed by the huge peaks of year-round- snow-capped Mount Rundel, this place is busier than Times Square on a Friday before a long weekend. Eventually, with the aid of a college student—one of a couple of hundred employed during the tourist season—I made the mile-long trek to my room. There, on the door, was a sign that read: “Bert: We’re waiting for you. Please get in touch.” When I went downstairs, I found the Alan Ladds in a beautiful oak-paneled room, having dinner with the hotel manager and his friends.. Sue threw her arms around me and exclaimed, “Golly, it’s good to see someone from home.” Alan, right behind her, stretched out one sun-tanned paw and gave me a grip of the sort that will break three fingers unless you’re braced for it. (Continued on page TA) Alanis an enthusiastic golfer; usually averages a near- professional score. Loyal to the links of home, he child may be a handicap; gives kids claims that the Canadian scenery ruins his game! minimumofpampering, maximumoflove. Alan calls his newest dachshund, Red Beret, "that David, Alana, and one of the ever- dope!" The dog practices rétrieving onthe golf course; present canine crew pose with Mom once brought Alan an irate young lady's best drive! and Dad before Banff Springs Hotel. 43

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The experts on Lana’s love life have been wrong every time. This time no one— not even Lana—is predicting a thing! BY CONSUELO ANDERSON anything call happen @ When Lana Turner is in love, anything can happen. And it just did. After months of rumors and counter-rumors Lana married Lex Barker at City Hall in Turin, Italy. The wedding came as a surprise in Italy, since the American Consulate had not been informed of the date in advance, as is customary overseas. At home the wedding was a different kind of surprise. There had been no question of Lex’s intentions. The superlatives Barker had used to express his admiration and affection for the 33-year-old actress are endless. Certainly a proposal from the one-time Tarzan was expected to be forthcoming the moment his divorce from Arlene Dahl was final. But nobody knew what Lana’s answer would be. Nothing she does seems inevitable. In fact, she didn’t know, herself, what she would do. At least, so she said. Here is a ~ portion of a conversation she had only a few weeks ago with a (Continued on page 72)

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hin LANZA LIVES BIG m Among the rumors you might have read about Mario Lanza, are the rumors about his home—stories that his handsome Bel Air house is equipped with gun turrets, secret trapdoors, a tremendous wine cellar, and a great, big gymnasium. “All of this is interesting, if not true. Mr. Lanza does enjoy large-scale living. But he expresses this in outsize livingroom and bedroom furniture—not in ar- senals and playing fields. The Lanza’s house is a tremendous, rambling, Mediterranean- style mansion that occupies a knoll overlooking Bel Air, the swankiest residential district in Los Angeles. It is a two-story job, well concealed by lush foliage. Years ago it cost $250,000 to build. “Few people can afford to build homes like this any more,” Mario says. “The walls are at least two feet thick. We have a private patio paved with beautiful Spanish tiles. We have our own fountains, our own statuary. Really, it’s out of this world.” With a housewifely shake of her (Contimued on page 48)

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The Lanzas live in a casa in Bel Air—and ‘all of their fourteen rooms overflow with children. guests and singing—and just plain happitiess! Betty holds Damon, 8 mos, the latest € Muted rose sotas and gold lampshades accent the quiet, cream-colored fireplace and pale green rug; the gold motif is continued in the Chinese scroll design of the mantelpiece The paneled library holds Mario's oldest, most prized posses- sions. Located in a remote corner of the house, it is his private haven. Only Betty is allowed in te dust and straighten up a bit.

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fora, Be stairway, two balconies, and an $1800 bed—huge, even for Hollywood, but just big enough for the Lanzas’ early-morning romps with the kids. Mario believes childhood is the time for fun, provides kids with plenty of toys. The big pink nursery adjoining the youngsters’ sleeping quarters is their first try at a joint playroom for the children. An office is a necessity for Betty, who must supervise tour servants, three highly active 1 children, and a fourteen-room home. Her oversize desk stands at one end of the sun- porch. Note early-model Victrola: Mario’s first, it has been treasured for twenty years. - LIVES BIG... head, Betty Lanza admits that her house is beau- tiful. “Only,” she adds, “the architect did some pretty funny and impractical things. Maybe he didn’t worry about mundane matters, but he for- got to provide sufficient space for hanging clothes. This house is built on a hillside, you know, and the only level spot we could find to hang our clotheslines is under the master bedroom. Also our dressing room closet—it’s only large enough for Mario’s wardrobe, so I’ve had to use the linen closet for my things. I took out the shelves and - put in some portable racks. On the whole, how- ever, the good features of the place certainly: outweigh the bad ones.” i The Lanzas have had five homes since they first arrived in California, and this is.the only one in which Mario has ever had a music studio where-he could work without interruption. He rehearses at least two hours every day, usually from one in the afternoon to three. Many days, however, he will sing for five or six hours, then knock off, play some recordings, or watch TV. The Lanzas have three television sets in the- house. The most striking room in their house is the living room which is really a miniature concert hall. It is- fifty feet long, forty feet wide, and. thirty feet high. There is a dais at the far end. When the Lanzas entertain and Mario is asked to sing, he mounts this dais and gives out. Sing- — ing, of course, is the great passion of his life, and once he is sure the audience is with him, he’ll go through his amazing repertoire even if the party lasts until four in the morning. At a recent Lanza shindig, Della Russell, Andy’s wife, asked Mario to sing “Song Of In- dia.” By the time the tenor had finished it, Della was crying unashamedly. Mario repeated the song four times before his father insisted upon his doing an old Neapolitan tune. - When the Lanzas first moved into their new home last fall, there was (Continued on page 70) SS ab Cee OO iene S

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OUND FAITH “Most of us are problems to ourselves. Thave had to be honest and admit it. But Um earkuie on it. That’ 8 the most —and the least—a man can do.” _ toallas to myself hy Du ly eS @ It is not to my credit, religiously, (at least it isn’t a clear credit) that I served * aS an altar boy at St. Christopher’s in Baldwin, Long Island. Unfortunately, the part of my position I liked the most was the opportunity to appear before an audience. I was more the actor than the acolyte. When sometimes, as during Holy Week, I was permitted to read to the congregation from the Gospel, I was really in my glory. And T did a good job. Just the same, it ought to be pretty evident that my piety was not all it should have been. It still isn’t. But if there are hurdles I still must take, some thinking about myself I still must do to straighten out my views, I am a man of faith, if not in steady church attendance, at least in my overall view. There is a bond. I seek to be deserving of a stronger one. 3 As I see it, getting to be the person you should be, religiously, takes in more than just your relationship to your church. What you are to your family, to your neighbors, and to your fellow worker must match. I might add Ahat what you are to yourself must be examined sometimes, and straightened out, if you want to do an honest job. This isn’t always easy. I’ve had my troubles. You can put yourself into the hands of the experts on this sort of thing, the _ psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, but even they will tell you that ultimately the cure rests _ with you; it rests on your ability to adjust to a world that is rarely as you would have it. I remember talking to the administrative , head of. the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He was posting me on my relationship _to the institution (Continued on page 78)

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soe . a Debbie's friends let her ‘go Hollywood” to the extent of owning a pool, but promptly and firmly deflate her when they think she is putting on airs. She’s got a big thing on baseball, and she drinks her root beer straight. How natural can Debbie get? BY JIM NEWTON Paul Lillard wrote Debbie from -Korea: she gave his name to Korean-bound Dan Sites. Now, squired by both, she claims they ignore her! ~~ ‘ = Murray Miller and Buddy Scandland give Debbi The kids around Debbie's pool are a hand. She finds asking for help breaks the ice usually friends from Burbank, rather when people are overawed by her stardom. m@ A few months ago, the spectators at an industrial league baseball game in California’s San Fernando Valley saw that one of the pitchers was blowing up. And they knew why. Seated among the crowd in the crude, wooden stand behind home plate was a young girl who was riding him expertly. “What’s the matter?” she would call. “Just because you’re cute can’t you put the ball over?” Ever since she had arrived, in jeans and light pullover, people had turned to each other and speculated about her identity. In her attire and manner she was like any of a dozen other girls present, yet everyone agreed that her face was familiar—they had seen her somewhere before. The girl resembled the third baseman on one of the teams, and it was apparent that she was rooting for his side. Several innings passed before everybody found out who she was. Word got around after some old men, retired gaffers who came daily to smoke their pipes and watch the games, were heard speaking to her. “Been watchin’ ya, Debbie, while you were away,” they said. “Been seein’ how you been doin’ in the movies.” : Debbie Reynolds, after a round of personal appearances through South America and a season of playing summer theatre in the middlewest and southwest, was back home in Burbank and again fitting happily into the ways of the community she loved. “Oh, you robber!” she screamed at the umpire, as he called a questionable strike on her brother Bill, who was playing for the Burbank Blues against the Blanchard Lumber Nine. “That’s the old Debbie,” murmured one of the oldsters approv- ingly. “That’s tellin’ him. You hain’t forgot your baseball.” Debbie “hain’t forgot” more than her baseball. She “hain’t forgot” her old friends, her Girl Scout activities, the taste of a double root beer float at Bob’s Drive-In around the corner from her home, her mother’s sewing room where she always got in her mother’s way—and still does— and a thousand and one other warm elements of her girlhood. Riding high in glamourland, where the pitfalls, both sotial and profes- sional, are as deep as the heights are dizzy, she is so heart-tied to the old and beloved associations of her youth that new ones—the kind that so often trip up a young star— have no undue attraction for her. As one of her old school friends puts it: “Debbie hasn’t pulled a ‘boo-boo’ yet and she isn’t going to. Hollywood isn’t going to get her because Burbank’s got her!” (Continued on page 62) than members of the’ movie colony. 51|

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AUDREY HEPBURN She wu the moal gneiling nour Alar of, 1953-aud hero is hor curw Slory, Toth in, hor cure word 1 JANE WILKIE @ Everything Hollywood has ever accomplished, all the actors it has ever discovered, all the pictures it has produced, have been ‘sensational’, ‘terrific’ and ‘colossal’. The words have been used so often that by now nobody listens to them. _ So when Hollywood got its first look at Audrey Hepburn on’ the screen, in Roman Holiday, the press was left without suitable adjectives. It was necessary, and accurate, to describe this new, young actress in the most complimentary terms, but somehow the correct words sounded empty. She is truly great, but the critics who saw the press preview agreed it was going to be difficult to convince the public that Miss Hepburn is that magziificent. After the showing was over, the editors present immediately began to plan Audrey Hepburn stories, certain that the minute Roman Holiday was released to the public, there would be a surge of curiosity about her. The next morning, Paramount’s publicity department was swamped with questions. Where did Audrey Hepburn come from? What was she like? Was she under contract? What did she eat for breakfast? Was she married? They didn’t know a great deal. She had been born near Brussels and educated in England. She had studied ballet, and she had played the title role in the Broadway production of Gigz. Her performance drew rave reviews. The show had toured the United States, and William Wyler had contracted her for Roman Holiday, to be made in Rome. Before Miss Hepburn was whisked away to eastern cities and eventually to Italy, Paramount publicists managed to learn enough about her tq write a brief biography. Unfortunately, Miss Hepburn was not available for interviews. She was in England and would not return to Hollywood until September, when she would star in Sabrina Fair. This was a disappointment to everyone, MopERN ScrEEN included. Roman Holiday would be released in September, and everybody would want to know all about Audrey Hepburn, at once. MOobERN ScREEN had an idea, though. “It must be done, and there’s a way to do it. Tape an interview and send it to her in England, and with Paramount’s cooperation, she will tape record her answers and send them back.” So over at Paramount studio, a very uneasy reporter was hooked up to a frightening machine that looked like the instrument panel of a Stratocruiser. Then they stuck a microphone in her hand and said, “Go ahead.” (Continued on page 90)

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54 It’s bee - Ty Power has been “many things—soldier, playboy, wanderer— in his search for inner peace. Now he is finding what was there all the time. BY JOHN MAYNARD hen a film star decides to buck the stage, somebody always wants to know why in thunderation he does it and the star replies that it is a challenge. It is an innocent colloquy, predicated on the knowledge of both that the star is at least temporarily washed up in pictures and is needful of maintaining his wardrobe, his alimony, and his three meals a day. In the case of Tyrone Power, there occurred a mildly interesting switch. Power, who is not washed up in any sense, still did not bother to reach for the “challenge” handle. He said “security.” “Work,” he said, sweating frankly in 106 ‘degrees of Lone Pine, California, heat, “as the actor’s only provision for security. It’s his back door, the old escape hatch. That goes for the rich ones, too, and how many of them do you know? I know some. Got enough money in the bank to last them till they die. Last ’em real fancy, too. But they haven't got security. Theyre stagnant. You know who I mean? Wealthy, idle, miser- able in the knowledge of their own limitations, actually very unhappy people. I don’t care how well-upholstered a vacuum is, it’s a vacuum. Nature hates its guts, as somebody has said before me. And better. You go forward, you go backward, or you die. And if you’re going backward, you might as well send the mortician a memo anyway. Just so he can begin scratching around, getting things ready. But the squirrel cage is worst of all.” (Continued on page 67)

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by Thelma McGill FORGOTTEN CHILD This 1951 news shot shows Yasmin and her nurse; Rebecca typically in the @ A bored little girl shuffled through the steps of the Seguidilla and brought her castanets to a languid stop. “Rebecca Welles! Please do it right, just once, for me, then you may go.” Eduardo Cansino’s pretty, hard-working, second wife, Pat, was again entreating Rita Hayworth’s older daughter to work with the rest of the children in the Satur- day dancing class. Rebecca thrust out a defiant chin and went through the steps again, mechanically. Her hair’ was. carelessly combed and AS her brown and white checked gingham dress was not particularly becoming. There was no spark of interest or pleasure in her brown eyes. Across the room, with Rita’s house- keeper and two nurses, Rebecca’s step- sister, the Princess Yasmin, sat quietly watching the class. Yasmin, an exquisite little creature, was dressed just as a baby Princess should be dressed. She wore a handmade, pink, French organdy dress. Her softly curled hair shone from careful brushing and her background. Rebecca is rarely photographed these days. oe eo pink hair ribbon was placed just right. None of the dancing class mothers or nursemaids seemed to pay attention to the tragic difference between these two daugh- ters of Rita Hayworth. The doting ma- mas on the sidelines watched their own darlings. Many of them, and a large por- tion of the American public, have for- gotten, perhaps, that Rita Hayworth has an older child named Rebecca. Suddenly, Rebecca’s face brightened. Grandpa (Rita Hayworth’s father) had come into the (Continued on page 92) 57

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The nation's newest heartthrob is casual about his success: sprawls happily (and untidily) all over the Sutton Place apartment he took over from Eddie Canto’ aaa the kid from Philly Eddie sings about love but his only love is singing. Here is the story of America’s new dreamboat— and the girl he didn’t marry! BY JOAN KING FLYNN M Studio 6.B at wNBT-Tv was humming. Outside the door, an usher had a list of those who were to be per- mitted inside during the rehearsal. It was a long list. In the Tv theatre the audience seats were occupied by an assortment of pro- ducers, writers, kibitzers, Tv technicians, press agents, song-pluggers, fans and friends. They were all there to see Eddie Fisher or to attend to business connected with some offshoot of his career. The person who seemed least affected by the activity and excite- ment was Eddie Fisher himself, the star of Coke Time. Because of his vivid coloring, his black curly hair, deep brown eyes and tanned skin, the tall tv star is better (Continued on page 64)

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A DAY IN EDDIE FISHER’S LIFE IS FILLED WITH FRIENDLY PEOPLE, WORK AND CASUAL LIVING. Former G] Fisher loves sleeping late, drops in, for lunch and sociable chat. i) cook, Gypsy, pick up after him, “and stops for friendly chat with fans. Day's end with book on idol, Bing. and everyone's music but his own, 59

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perfect balance (Continued from page 37) his voice. He didn’t know that for this soothing assur- ance, Marge Champion had rolled down from the top of the mountain and her lonely house, which didn’t have a tele- phone then, to haunt Schwabs’ booths for three hours until they swept her out, ‘trying to talk a’ Manhattan hotel into, violating “Do Not Disturb” instructions. He didn’t know how important it was to her just to hear a tall, boyish-looking and undeniably drowsy. fellow say the words she had to hear. But then, of course, he didn’t know Marge and Gower Champion. Since Gower had gone to New York, everything had gone wrong. First, the plumbing at their house had burst in the middle of the night. In the studio, three feet of water had poured onto the expen- sive cork dance floor they’d laboriously sanded to just the right slipper touch. ‘It took Marge, two patrol cops and as- sorted friends until dawn, bailing and swabbing in hip boots, to save the place. Then a windstorm had whipped up, send- ing the spare shutters Gow had stacked whistling around the place like boomer- rangs. After that, a tipsy milkman whirled into the drive and knocked over part of a brick wall and three prize camellias. Two cherished cats had vanished and, just to wrap things up dandy, a cop had ticketed Marge that morning for cross- ing a white line! Of course, Marge hadn’t let “the Boss” in on the bad news that night—he had the choreography of a Broadway show on his mind. But just saying hello made things better. And he would soon be home. She gunned her roadster back up the hill and flopped into bed. Luckily, the absent lover blues have seldom seized Marge Champion in her half dozen years of marriage. Marge and Gower have been as imseparable as shadows—walking, eating, working, play- ing, sleeping. A few days before last October 5, the graceful, crewcut stringbean Marge Cham- pion loves pulled the gold engagement ring off his dainty wife’s finger and took it down to Tobias, the Beverly Hills jeweler. This year the diamond he added to the glittering arc of five is the brightest of all to Marge and Gower—and with good reason. _When he bought that ring, Gower Cham- pion had to scrape the pockets of his lone tuxedo to do it. The Champs were a strug- gling dance team then, chronically in hock for Marge’s gowns, fighting to pay the rent on a basement apartment. They had pros- pects, it’s true, but few dance dates. Now things are different. As anyone knows, the Champions are the most popular, highest-paid dance duo in Amer- ica, Since they dazzled Hollywood four years ago with their fairyfooted, romantic grace, they’ve been the highspots of such picture hits as Mr. Music, Showboat, Lovely To Look At, Everything. I Have Is Yours and Give A Girl A Break. They’ve also been, and still are, record smashers at the best hotels and nightclubs all over the land and on tv, too. Last year they collected $130,000 and many awards for this and that. They’ve got what both have always wanted—a big time career. _ The grey house with the black shutters tucked into a Hollywood hillside is also what they’ve both always dreamed about. And the two barrels of knickknacks, the Lautree poster and the unpaid-for piano with which they started housekeeping are surrounded by rich (and paid for) antique and modern furnishings, good 60 prints and sketches, ‘shelves of books, Ire racks pparecgrde ail the things that make a house the kind of home both Champions love. They’ve got relatives all aroui:d them, friends galore, five spoiled cats, and two white cars in their garage. But most of all, they’ve got each other, and a mar- riage that grows richer and firmer every hour. And that, considering Marge and Gower Champion’s Siamese twin setup, is the most amazing accomplishment of all. Now, ideally the ancient rites of mar- riage should result in a perfect blending. But in practice, many brides and grooms _who have shaken the rice out of their hair will attest that it is nothing of the sort, although it is true that sometimes they get to looking like each other even by the tin anniversary. They talk alike. A sort of mental telepathy develops so that they think the same things at the same time. That’s evident in the Champions’ dancing which, as one critic marveled, as if they had radar in every muscle.” For example, Marge tripped, making an entrance, and fell on her face. Behind her, Gow immediately made the same stumble and flopped the same way. When they played the Statler hotel in Cleveland, Marge got woozy with a fever. The doctor came and gave her sulfa. Next day she was all over red spots. “Measles,” he said. So they slapped her into the contagion ward of the City Hos- pital with barely time to tell Gow goodbye, and no way of communicating with him— no phone, not even notes that might carry germs. A City doctor took over, and for a couple of.days Marge might as well have been in jail. The place was. swarming with speckled kids. One of them peeped at her and blurted, “You don’t have measles—you don’t have measle eyes.” Marge began to wonder. That noon, her original doctor came in. “I’m not supposed to be here,” he said, “but your husband keeps insisting you don’t have measles. To keep him quiet, I came over.’ Well, she didn’t have measles. Just flu and a sulfa reaction. But how did Gow ever know that, with Marge incommunicado? That phenomenon is sometimes weird, but it’s also fairly common with any Mr. and Mrs. What’s remarkable in the Champions’ ease is that the side-by-side, round-the- clock, foot-away life they lead, constantly under the nervous tension of creating, pressed by deadlines, exhausted by physi- cal exertion, remains a lovebird affair. As a good pal of theirs, a star whose home broke under similar Hollywood strains marvels, “By now, those kids should be sick of each other, but they get sick without each other. The way they live they should be throwing rocks. Instead, they throw kisses. How do they do it?” MA" and Gower Champion are very different. The Midget has a person- ality as open and airy as a barn door. Gower keeps his corked up like a bottle of champagne; when he pops it, the boy can bubble in sparkling style, but usually he’s standoffish, even shy. As a new ac- quaintance put it a little bitingly, “Some- body left the ‘’ out of Gower’s name.” Another long-time friend, warm, demon- strative Nanette Fabray, always used to greet Gow with a hug and a smack until Marge took her aside one day. “Nanny,” she said, “if you don’t mind, please don’t swari over Gower like that. If makes him miserable.” Yet, Marge is inclined to do the same thing to her friends’ husbands, or to practically anybody she’s fond of. Marge’s piano smile is easily her best feature. Often you wouldn’% know Gower had teeth. He’s a worrier, she seldom creases a wrirkle. He’s the grand sweep boy; Marge ties the ideas down. Gow writes and Marge edits. In most other “Ways you stack them up they’re different. } tuffing; he has to be coaxed to eat. Marge will have a drink or two; her husband doesn’t touch the stuff. He likes to get up early; she clings to the hay. In money matters he is extravagant and Marge makes like a Scotch housewife. Gow will shoot the roll on a canvas while Marge argues with a housepainter over how much thinner to use. And so it goes up and down the line —hbig things, little things—they’re no double exposure. But this, some people think, is exactly what keeps their sand- wich style married life from going stale. “You see,” explains the same Nanette Fabray, “Marge and Gow don’t blend at all—_they balance. What Marge lacks, Gower has; what he’s missing, she makes up. They need each other every hour. It’s as simple as that.” haha Another factor, as Miriam Nelson (Gene’s estranged wife) points out rather wistfully, “is a little item called love.” Stanley Roberts, a screen writer, once ob- served, “When Marge looks at Gower her eyes tell him he’s the most important person who ever lived—and to her he is.” Experts agree that even in their dancing Gow’s “I-could-eat-you-alive” look is a big reason why both sexes, from sixteen ta sixty, get mushy inside and stay breathless when they float out on a stage. A huddle of terpsichore critics, analyzing their success, explored every egg-headed angle of tech- nique, training, art and what-all. Finally one blurted, “You can plant me in rows for a corn crop, maybe—but in my book, the extra factor that makes them great is this: You can tell they’re so damned much in love!” Z < ‘ Wr you look beyond moonlight and roses for the ties that bind the Cham- pion marriage, they aren’t hard to find. One of the strongest, of course, is the mutual life’s work. It throws Marge and Gower together in what could be explo- sive proximity. Like the husband and wife who run a chinchilla farm together, they both work every day toward the same goal. They worked toward it sepa- rately, as kids, before either looked side- wise at the other. To say that dancing is the mutual driv- ing force of Mr. and Mrs. Champions’ lives is an understatement. They never get away from it and never really want to. Of course, what Marge gets asked, ad infinitum, is, “Do you ever have any fun just going out dancing?” Her answer is always, “Of course. If we don’t have to perform.” Nowadays, what the Champs call “Arthur Murray dancing” is for them, — curiously, a rare treat. Not long ago they } decided, sentimentally, to step out to the ~ Del Mar Club at the Beach. As teen- agers, they had gone on dates there. : But after just one dreamy waltz, sure — bandleader spotted them, enough, the stepped to the mike and—there went the romantic evening. They were on & That happens all the time. They’re glad it does,’ of course, but admittedly it’s one of the things that keeps them at home, or sends them scurrying back early. “At “midnight,” laughs Miriam Nelson, “Gower and Marge turn into pumpkins.” But there’s a bigger reason for that. Their home is another powerful binder for their marriage. Both Marge and Gower fer- vently appreciate it. For one thing, neither of them ever 3 really had a home until they had this one together. Gower was a divorce orphan from the age of three, brought up by his — mother. Marge had the same story, only it was her father who brought her up. In both cases, the job, though done singly, — was done well. Still, it wasn’t what the rest of the kids had. Now, a couple of families have, in effect, joined up. : (wah No) ache Sahil xhibit.

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es ‘this is more than either Marge or £41 Gower Champion dared dream about when they first teamed up to dance. Their love story started when both were junior high adolescents, but between that grop- ing time and their marriage they both collected some beautiful bruises going through separate mills. ; While she was still in her teens, Marge had the shattering experience of a broken marriage. Gower racketed around, too, with disappointing attachments. Both tackled New York alone and when they met again they finally knew what they wanted—each other. They didn’t launch their lives together with champagne, nor even beer. When they were married six months after their first dance engagement, they couldn’t afford a honeymoon. Marge still can’t stand the taste of boiled eggs, because in those newlywed years she bubbled so many over a hot plate in their hotel rooms. There’s a bat- tered portable refrigerator in their studio today that helped keep them alive on the road when they couldn’t afford to buy a meal where they danced. But if Marge and Gower Champion were ‘sometimes short of cash, they've never been short of love and courage. It took a helping of moxie, in the first place, for Marge to ditch the best chance she’d ever had at Broadway fame, when she passed up the lead in Rodgers and Hammer- stein’s Allegro to join Gower chasing their rainbow. Later, it took some more to leave the east, where they’d made a mame, and take on Hollywood. That shrewd show business queen, Sophie Tucker, for instance, told them they were crazy to come to Mocambo in Hollywood. “Youll die on that small floor with that tough audience,” she predicted. “But,” she sighed, “you're both young and youll bounce back.” : As everyone knows, at Mocambo the Champs bounced not back but ahead— right into pictures. And on the first Holly- wood hop they bought the house where they live.-They couldn’t afford that then, either; the price was as steep as the hillside it clung to. But they know it’s been worth every penny they mortgaged themselves for—not only as the security anchor both Marge and Gower craved, but also as the escape valve for their high pressure two-career marriage. Marge has a deep affection for flowers. She still keeps three pressed roses which Anna -Pavlova gave her the first time they met. That was following a performance, during which the ballerina slipped to the floor in a rare fluff of her art. Afterwards, taken to her dressing room by her dad, Marge noticed roses scattered helter skelter in a corner. Although at that point Pavlova rated with her like Babe Ruth would rate with a boy, Marge, five, indig- nantly spoke her piece. “You oughtn’t to throw roses like that,” she lectured. “They can’t help it if: you fell down!” The dancer laughed, prom- ised never to mistreat flowers again, and gave her the three posies. Gow is not so romantic about flowers, ; but just as artistic outdoors as he is in. As in his dance numbers; he does the spade work, lays out the plots and man- | ages a ballet effect, sometimes with the strangest things. Last spring they set out some deep blue delphinium. That called for a color contrast, Gow felt, so he backed it with a hedge of rhubarb. In front, he planted parsley. And on a bare slope that threatened to run mud with the rains, he dotted artichokes. It looks surprisingly good, and tastes good, too. Once you penetrate the Champion jungle and step inside the house, there’s evidence all around of Marge and Gower’s relaxing outlets at home. Marge, by now, is a cook UNIQUE SUCCESS STORY Denise Darcel, the Cattle Boat War Bride @ Although the love has long since gone, French-born Denise Darcel arrived in this country as a French war bride, aboard a cattle boat. Later divorced, she began to concentrate on her singing~career, and oddly enough her extreme beauty has been her greatest handicap. She first created a sensation in the picture, Battleground, in which she had the only feminine role in a costume that out- Russelled Jane Russell. From that point on, producers couldn’t see her talents as an actress for her statuesque and startling physique. Slightly snubbed by- those who failed to realize that she had both dramatic and comic ability, Denise took to the night club circuit. One eve- ning she volunteered to substitute for Danny Thomas and went on with such competition as the Ritz Brothers and Jane Powell, and completely stole the show. She kept the promise she made to herself not to go back to Paris until she had made good. When she returns to this country this time, not on a cattle boat but on the Ile de France, she will begin work in the life story of Jane Avril, the magnificent character played briefly by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Moulin Rouge—a far cry from her first effort as the slave girl in Lex Barker’s initial Tar- zan picture. That will still leave her with one unfulfilled ambition: she’d like to fall in love again, for keeps. In Hollywood she has yet to meet the man who will look not at her figure, but into her eyes, which, by the way, are about as disturbing as a pair of eyes can be. \ supreme. As for Gower, he’s eternally got some Rube: Goldberg device underway. The latest is a dumb-waiter to their pool, four flights down the hill from the kitchen. He overlooked the small matter of motive power, so you have to haul it up and down by hand, but he thinks it’s wonder- ful. Sensitive to noise, he’s got all the phones artfully padded with some sort of fluff so, as Dick Pribor, their accompanist, says, “they don’t ring—they purr.” The Champs have flocks of friends in all sets and circles and by now about everywhere you can name. In Hollywood, their house, which has Victorian ice cream parlor chairs in the kitchen, antique bird cages in the front room, modern paintings on the wall and functional pieces under Gay Nineties fixtures still blend in what they call “modern-baroque” for a color- ful, cozy effect. As Lisa Kirk has noted, “Marge and Gower’s house says, ‘Come in’ and after that, “Be yourself’.”- And that’s a compliment. Their friends do come in, constantly and endlessly, despite the Alpine climb. The _favorite open house is Sunday around the kidney shaped pool when Marge whips out the herbs and prepares her famous ‘California hamburgers.’ Regulars include Lisa Kirk and her husband, Bob Wells, Paula Stone and Mike Sloane, Nanette, Miriam Nelson, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, John and Jeanne Champion, Marge’s brother, Dick, and family, Dick Pribor—and of course the five haughty pussy-cats—Clarabow, Flowerpot, Mug- gins, Lester and Albert. In their friendships, neither Marge nor Gower are passive. Their outgoing natures, one demonstrative, the other reserved, seem to be equally spontaneous and sin- cere. Almost everyone they know can come up with a story wherein the Champs have been actively friends in need. Nanette Fabray moved into her new house last spring, and got the flu on moy- ing day, a dismal ordeal anyway. But Nan is a lone divorcée, and she couldn’t have been more depressed, with everything piled in a mess and her temperature up to 102. Although they were busy getting to- gether new dances for their last tour, Gower and Marge rattled right over, shift- ed all the furniture into place, screwed in the light bulbs, hooked up this and that, hung pictures and cooked her dinner, too. P ror are so used to seeing the Cham- pions a deux that when either shows up publicly without the other, it’s a natural gossip item. Last time, that happened after one of those Sunday night parties when the Nel- sons, Nanette, Lisa Kirk, Curtis, Leigh and company wanted to go on to Mocambo. Gow shook his head because he had a dance idea on his mind and wanted to block it out at the crack of dawn on Mon- day. But Marge got talked into going on alone. “You'll be sorry,” kidded her boss. She was. That brief exposure without Gower made the room buzz and next morning the columns had question marks after their names. It will take mightier crowbars than those to pry the. Champions apart. After six solid years, they’re still happy with each other, although they are together every hour. That could be because, as one critic recently observed, “They dance, not from their feet up, but from their heads down.” It could also be because they keep dancing from their hearts out. END 61

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is it bad to be good? — (Continued from page 51) Debbie hasn’t sworn off Hollywood’s social circles; her life just isn’t confined to those orbits. She had a well rounded, satisfactory life before she ever got into the movies. She gets a kick out of the after-premiére parties, the gay Bel Air affairs and the Strip-club shin- digs she sometimes attends, but she walks and talks best to the tempo of the life she’ was born into. The real Debbie Reynolds is the girl who spent her last vacation ex- actly as she used to spend vacations when she was a school girl; she slept a low, cleaned the yard, helped her father paint the back fence, got whacked at tennis by everybody and put in a week as a counselor up at the Girl Scout Camp in Fraser, Cali- fornia. She was at Ciro’s when Peggy Lee was _singing there. She is crazy about Peggy’s song technique. She spent a lot more nights at the Melody, an unpublicized jazz grotto in Burbank, where the musicians turn real “cat” while the bopster-patrons, Deb- bie included, sit swaying ecstatically with the beat and whispering, “Go! Go! Go!” It is true that she was squired by such Hollywood men as Dick Anderson, Hugh O’Brien and Tab Hunter. But much more often her escorts were Paul Lillard and Danny Sites—together at that—a couple of Korean war veterans who love Debbie like brothers. Paul is the soldier-fan who - wrote such interesting letters to Debbie and her folks from the battlefront that they invited him to visit them when he came back. Now, they have informally adopted him into the family. Danny has lived near Debbie since they were both children. When he was leaving for Korea two years ago, Debbie gave him Paul’s address. The boys not only met but became fast friends. Now that they are back they are writing a book about their war experiences—much to Debbie’s discomfiture, sometimes. “T often wonder if they know I’m with them,” she complains. “Hach one carries a little pad and pencil, and every few min- utes one of them thinks of something for the book. Out comes the note pad and they scribble away like mad. If I want to dance they offer to find someone for me!” IKE the rest of Debbie’s friends, Paul and Danny see her as.a sweet, bright girl, not as a movie star, and they aim to keep seeing her that way. They are not a bit bashful about straightening her out when they think she needs it. Like any girl, especially one with an inborn gift for . mimicry, Debbie will sometimes uncon- sciously take on the color and manner of people around her; she’ll return from the studio, for instance, acting a bit like the grande artiste. When this happens the kids go to work. They look at her coldly and ask, “What’s with you?”.And before she can figure out what they mean, they add, “So shut up and sit down!” Then Debbie knows she has been “glorifying.” Her mother, Mrs. Maxene Reynolds, takes a hand at this, too. Not long ago, Debbie came home after a fashionable reception attended by many of Holly- wood’s English set and began talking like a female David Niven. After she had “rawthered” all around the place for a few ~ minutes Mrs. Reynolds interrupted to ask Debbie to please swallow. “Swallow what?” asked Debbie. “All that mush you’ve got in your mouth,” her mother told her. Debbie swallowed and. talked straight again. She is grateful to her mother and the others for jerking her back into char- acter every time she starts riding a high horse. “If ever I get away from being just me,’ she says, “I'd be sure to wake up some aN Day ae the pe pret to be. I spent years, from i time I was nine, developing the friends I have around home. I’ve got all those years invested in them, and they'll keep me happy for the. ‘rest of my life. That’s my way of being rich and secure. They make me content to come home when otherwise, well—who knows what would happen, where and how I would seek to express myself if I didn’t have them?” In Hollywood, where the next flower, you pick up can sting you, it isn’t bad to have this sort of background, this incentive to settle for the good and not seek the overgay. EBBIE is still “investing” in friendship. Between her South American tour and the summer theatre work, last season, she had just five days in Hollywood in which to study scripts, learn the musical score of her first show, Best Foot Forward, and be fitted for costumes, Any other star would automatically have gone into seclu- sion under the stress of a rugged schedule like that. Not Debbie. She not only called and talked to her old pals, she took a day off to give a baby shower in her home for one of her three closest friends, © Diana Higley, now Mrs. Barry Cheek. The other two members of this high school listen. to modern screen on the air MONDAY-FRIDAY AT 8:30 P.M. OVER MOST OF YOUR LOCAL ABC STATIONS foursome, Barbara Christie and Jeanette Johnson, suggested that Debbie might not have the time to spare. “Of course!” re- sponded Debbie. “Diane’s first baby? Why . Sess could be more important than that!” : That wasn’t all. Debbie had just re- turned from playing Hinsdale, Illinois and Dallas, Texas, when Diane went into the hospital to have her baby. Her three pals got hold of her husband, Barry, took him to Debbie’s home, fed him and tried to talk him out of his worry. Three times, they pulled him out of the pool into which he kept falling while he wandered around the place in his distraction. “This boy is positively the end!” the girls agreed, and kept a sharp eye on him until the baby was born. Debbie keeps her appointments straight by using a system unlike any other star’s. She has no book. She just uses the annual calendar issued by the Girl Scouts of America. It hangs on the wall of her room. Whenever she makes an appointment, she jots down a note about it in and around ~ the particular date on the calendar. Noodled between the numbers in the month of July, for instance, are fragments like “HOB Tennis” (tennis with Hugh O’Brien), rie? 0.” (piano lessons), “PR-TH” (attend premiere with .Tab Hunter) and “B” (bowling with Paul and Danny). When Debbie attends a premiére she is both star and fan, of course. She drives up in style, makes her little speech over the public address. system for uu benefit of _ formance for her. They ran around under ‘in touch with Jeanette Johnson and they ‘months. Out of the eighty girls in their Give A Girl A Break.) That’s Bee eee program and T Hunter followed when he took he the Stalag 17 premiere in his salmon-colored comers: After the show he checked his money and told Debbie they could have as wild a time as could be squeezed out of two dollars. It turned out that they only needed forty cents for a root beer float and a lemonade in a drive-in. . When Debbie’ is with kids she grew ‘up _with, being herself comes easy. With others ’ she sometimes has to work at it. And. she does. She can’t stand the strangeness that falls like a damp cloak between her and people who are overpowered by her pro- fessional identity. “The most important things about the kids I know is that they are down to earth, ‘yet very reasonable about other people’s lives. If you are wealthy, that’s okay with them, just so you don’t pin the dollar sign on your sleeve. They know I’m doing well in the movies, but when they hear about my getting up at five o’clock, morning after morning, to get to the studio, and not getting back until way after dinner, they begin to think I’m crazy. ““Hey, that’s not like you,’ they say. “You're working too hard, girl. Slow up.’” We she went to Girl Scout camp, Deb- bie had a different problem. She had never met the seventeen-year-olds placed in her charge and her first two days with them didn’t go well. She knew they couldn’t accept her as a real person. She © was a movie star and they insisted on being overawed about it. They were shy; none of them ever cut up and whatever — they were asked to do, they did without any back talk. That was bad. Debbie felt chat: she was not only spoiling their vacation, but her own as well. She quietly discussed with. her mother, who had come along, the ad- visability of slipping away and leaving the girls free to enjoy themselves without the distraction of her presence. But her mother urged her to stay for another day, anyway. Debbie worked hard at it, kidding the — girls, poking fun at herself, asking their advice on a whole series of subjects -in- cluding diet, make-up, etiquette and boys. When one kid tentatively suggested that Debbie didn’t eat enough, she felt she was — getting somewhere with them. When, by — nightfall, another girl let something Slip about-Debbie’s: being too skinny, she knew the girls were getting to be themselves again and everything was going to be all — right. For the rest of the week they all had a hilarious time together. The last night the kids staged a gag ballet per- the stars, tripping over huge blankets they | | were using as veils. Debbie fell off her cot | laughing. | | ehins ids When she got back to Burbank, she got had a conference about a matter that has had them thinking a lot the last few | graduation class at Burbank High, only Jeanette and Debbie are still unmarried. — At first they kept asking each other: | “What's the matter with the boys around | here?” Now they are beginning to take a more objective view of the situation. “Do you suppose it’s us?” Debbie asked. : “Wouldn’t that be. positively the end?” . Beteed Jeanette. “We better check,” grimly. q That’s what they’ve got a thing about right now. Debbie replied | (Debbie Reynolds can be seen in MGM’s

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a it the kid from philly (Continued from page 58) looking in per- son than he is on the television screen. He moved effortlessly among these people, stopping to say “hello” to a friend, to con- fer momentarily with his manager or to- step onstage and rehearse a number with Ann Crowley, the pretty singing guest of that day. Eddie had a word of greeting, a smile, a nod for everybody. Virile, vibrant and personable, he seemed to be exactly what a young American star should be. Since he got out of the Army last April, after a two-year hitch, ex-private Edwin Jack Fisher’s rise to fame has been me- teoric. While he was in GJ. garb and maybe on some Army detail, entertaining in the front lines at Korea or another U.S. base, or recruiting on.the home front, his singing voice rang out on radio and juke boxes around the country. Some $300,000 in record royalties from his long string of song hits was piled up and waiting for him on his return to civilian life. Eddie Fisher alighted in New York from a Washington train oné morning last April, and still in uniform, went directly to the Paramount Theatre. His fans were lined up, impatient to see their singing hero. Backstage, a tailor and a hurriedly- hired valet were waiting for him in his Para- mount dressingroom. His clothes for the opening had been ordered long distance. Cashmere sports jackets, slacks, blue suits and two tuxedoes, all fresh from the tailor’s workroom, were hanging neatly on the racks. The transformation from Pri- vate Fisher, soldier, to Citizen Fisher, singer, was completed. An hour or so later, onstage at the Paramount where Frank Sinatra rocketed into fame via bobby-soxers’ swooning, Eddie Fisher was crowned the new “King of Sing.” To make his coronation official, the first week after his Army discharge, he launched his twice-weekly Tv and radio show, Coke Time. Est he have time to catch his breath, the bachelor baritone temporarily sus- pended his American activities to take his place in the spotlight of the London Palla- dium where Britishers flocked to see and hear the slender singer. He was making a benefit appearance at the Red, White and Blue ball, a big charity affair at the Dorchester Hotel, when he received a note from a young lady in the audience. “Don’t be nervous,” it read, “the re- ‘Sponse may not be like that at the Palla- dium, but I shall lead the applause and they will love you.” As everybody knows by now, Princess Margaret Rose, sister of the Queen of England, was Eddie’s royal cheerleader. After he sang, she invited — him to her table. This acclaim abroad and his popularity at home might turn another’s head, but not Eddie Fisher’s. He’s grateful for iit. - He lives unobtrusively in a 4%4-room, furnished apartment on New York’s Sut- ton Place, which he took over lock, stack, furnishings and books from Eddie Cantor. He got his headlong start to success four years ago, when the older Eddie heard the younger Eddie sing at Grossinger’s, a Catskill Mountain hotel, and hired him for a cross-country personal appearance tour. A hospitable host, the singer welcomed Movrern ScrEEN into his home. In the din- ingroom, an alcove off the livingroom, a round pedestal table was attractively set for luncheon. One whole wall consisted of windows opening on a view of the East River with its bridges and barges. The singer’s personal belongings were strewn with wifeless abandon around room. In one corner on the floor, there was a big” movie projector and photographie equipment. ° ‘Against. one wall was a piano, and piled atop bookcases and a combina- tion Tv set and phonograph, were stacks. of -long-playing records, classical and modern, On the lower shelf of an end table were mementoes of Eddie’s trip to London,’ ‘“Golden’ Book Of The Coronation,” “The Connoisseur, Coronation Book, 1953” and “King George V, His Life And Reign.” There was evidence of the life and ‘reign of King Eddie Fisher, royal crooner, too. He has a plaque in crest form, im- printed “Eddie Fisher, London Palladium, Variety Season, 1953.” A glass-encased gold record of RCA vicTor’s “Anytime” was shining testimony that his recording of that song had passed the million-sales mark. In a corner cupboard was a trophy, a sculptured figure holding a gold dise and inscribed, “The Cash Box, in behalf of the Automatic Music Industry of America, the Best Male Vocalist of 1952.” There were no personal pictures around the apartment, no likenesses of pretty blondes or brunettes. ips HIs bedroom, besides the unmade bed were well-stocked closets and dresser drawers. Hanging alongside his expensive suits was a khaki souvenir of his Army days, his G.I. jacket with the Korean and december's gala issue of modern screen presents four pages ; of liz taylor, mike and their baby in ses cole: photos with liz and ‘'britches”’ suns eee on sale november 6. Overseas medals still fastened on the front. “T like to keep it where I can see it. It reminds me how lucky I am,” civilian Fisher said. Being able to buy all the clothes he wants is a comparatively new experience for him and he doesn’t pretend not to enjoy it. Cashmere jackets, shirts and sweaters are his sartorial weakness, he ad- mitted. Black is his favorite color in ~ suits. Not funeral black, but the shining richness of mohair cloth or shantung. “Somebody gave me a black cashmere sports shirt,” he explained, “and I just liked the color.” Argyle socks, colored handkerchiefs (which he wears in his jacket pocket in preference to white), sweaters and sports shirts were tossed about in the drawers. It looked as though the owner had dressed in haste. “I have a valet, but he’s away on vaca- tion and I’m kind of lost without him.” | His one other servant, Gypsy, an attrac- tive, poised maid, prepared luncheon. “Bring some melted butter for the lob- ster, will you please, Gypsy?” he re- . quested, gnawing ‘unglamorou: of -corn. True to his sponsor, rs Ce several Coca-Colas. 6 When Eddie excused himself to answer the telephone, Gypsy discussed her famous boss. _ “He only has dinner home on Tesday and Thursday nights,’ she said, “and I never know how many there'll be for din- ner. He often calls up an hour before and says he’s bringing several friends home to dinner.” During luncheon, relaxed ne easy to be with, Eddie talked. He had celebrated his twenty-fifth birth- day on August 10. ‘J think back when I came to New York eight years ago. and it seems like yesterday,” he said. “I think I should be about eighteen now and I’m twenty-five. Otherwise, I feel very young. I'm ready to go. I was just as busy in the Army. I always had to be up early. I used to record at. 9 a.m. for the Army shows. At least I don’t. have to do that now. “I sing best when I feel good, when I’m not under pressure and when I sing what I like. When I was in the Army, I didn’t always sing what I liked, but when you’re in the Army you do a lot of things you don’t want to do.” 1s face and voice are very expressive as he speaks, although he says he wee bashful and shy as a kid. The fourth of Kate and Joe Fisher’s seven children, he had a tough life as a youngster in Phila- | The Fishers didn’t have much money, and Eddie used to accompany his. father’s fruit and vegetable wagon, vend- — delphia. ing his wares in song. He has sung ever since he can remem- ber, in the synagogue, in amateur con- tests, over radio station wri in Phila- delphia. His mother nicknamed him “Sonny,” because as a little boy he used ‘to imitate Al Jolson’s “Sonny Boy.” When he was seventeen, he came to New York to seek fame and fortune—and a singing Seb. “T went down to the Copa and audi- tioned for Monte Proser,” me, ‘I'll pay you $125 a week. Is that enough?’ I would have paid him to let me work there if I had had the money, but I didn’t realize I’d be singing with girls. I wanted to sing alone and I wanted . to sing what I liked. That’s why I didn’t want to sing with the bands. “T woke up wearing a costume | and sing- ing with eight girls,” he said. “I was at the Copa for three months. It was like home. Joe E. Lewis was the star while I was there. I sang songs like ‘The Great . ‘Simon> and ‘They Say That I’m Too Big World Is Yours And Mine,’ Bolivar’ Young To Know—and they’re so right,” he ad libbed. “I was and I.still am.” -A special evening at the Copa is a beight spot in Eddie’s memory. “They would have informal evenings,” he said, “when Joe E. Lewis would intro- duce the celebrities in the audience. One night Frank Sinatra, Eddy Duchin and Vic| Damone were there. Vic had just started to work at the Martinique. Joe E. Lewis in- troduced all of these people. Then he said, ‘Now I got a kid. This is my kid.’ And he - pointed to me! I felt like crying. I went on after all these people and sang. Afterwards, a couple of people wanted to be my mana- ger, but Milton Blackstone, a friend of Monte Proser’s and head of an advertis- ing agency, became my manager. : “Everyone said to him, ‘What are you messing around with this kid for? He’s not good enough. He’s not going to be se big.’ But Blackstone was one of the few d faith i in me. He has — people who really had . ’m kept busy these days, but © he recalled. “I sang many songs. Afterwards, Proser told IM ah ts parsons Mey

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taught me many things. He taught me pa- tience, which I didn’t have.” Eddie needed patience. After his thir- teen-week stint at the Copa he was out of work for nearly a year, with an occasional singing engagement at some small club, or the steadier but financially not very remunerative work of singing on the staff of Grossinger’s. As he sat on one of the modern sectional couches in the livingroom, looking casual and comfortable in brown slacks, a white, long-sleeved sports shirt and brown and white loafers, the Tv star discussed many things: that he likes to get presents; he doesn’t smoke, although once in a while he'll pick up a cigarette, but doesn’t in-- hale; that when he first came to New York he saw a Perry Como picture. He couldn’t remember the title but he remembered that Perry sang “Here Comes Heaven Again.” When he played in a recent golf tour- nament, he was in the foursome behind Perry Como. Eddie sang his own song hit which was particularly apropos, “I’m Walking Behind You.” Perry's answer was his favorite quip, “You crazy, mixed-up. kid,” and then Perry burst into song, kidding back, “Mine, Tell Me That You’re Mine.” Eddie’s buddy, Bernie Rich, dropped by. Bernie has his own apartment, but while his mother or visiting friends use his abode, he bunks at Eddie’s. This is very convenient for Bernie. He gets to wear Eddie’s shirts, socks, and ties which as he says, “are so much nicer than the ones I can afford.” Bernie can have delusions of grandeur, too, for Eddie lets him drive his new navy blue Cadillac convertible. They’re used to sharing what they’ve got because for a long time they had nothing between them. IVE YEARS ago, Bernie and another friend from Philadelphia, Joey Forman; came to New York. Bernie wanied to be an accor and Jeey a comedian. Eddie was living in a hotel room and his two pals moved in. Since Eddie was the only one working he got the bed. Joey used to take the mattress off the bed and sleep on the floor. Bernie didn’t have it so good. Frequently he found himself relegated to the bath tub. Bernie had one phrase to describe his friend Eddie: “Completely selfless.” “There’s nothing he wouldn’t do for any of his friends,” he said, and told how when Eddie was booked into the Paramount after being discharged from the Army, he insisted that Joey Forman be signed as the comic for the stage show. Excusing himself with, “You don’t mind if I borrow one of your shirts, do you, pal?” Bernie left. Eddie called after him, “See you at re- hearsal. Do you want to borrow the car?” “No, Tll let you use it this afternoon,” Bernie said generously. Laughing after him, it was evident that the comfortable.-as-an-old-shoe friendship he enjoyed with Bernie helped to relieve the strain and tension of many a day. 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thing left—the movies. I was out there in 1949 and I had a taste of it. There was a chance he might go to ‘Hollywood, the tv star said. His agent was talking over a one-picture-a-year deal with Paramount, “If I made a picture I’d like to play op- posite Debbie Reynolds,” he said, “but I don’t suppose Paramount could borrow her.” It was the first time in all his conver- sation that Eddie had mentioned a girl. Except for an occasional line in a column, linking him with a pretty model or an as- piring actress or a young singer, there have been no stories about his romantic life. But there have been theories and speculation. “He’s carrying a torch for a girl he was in love with,” some said: ° ~ “The truth is,’ whispered others, “and I have this right from the horse’s mouth; that he has been told not to get married for fear he’ll lose his bobbysox follow- ing.” “Nah, that’s not the reason. He won’t marry anybody unless his mother approves of her.” [F A fellow won’t talk about his girls, other people will, especially ‘if he’s fa- mous, for when a man becomes success- ful there’ are all sorts of people who knew him when, the “I remember” friends. “Eddie went with a girl by the name of Joan Wynne,” a Fisher expert had told MoperN ScrEEN a few days before the meeting with Eddie. “He met her when he sang at the Copa. She’s in the chorus at the Riviera now. No- | body knows why they broke up.” Joan Wynne was sixteen, brown-haired and blue-eyed, when she first met Eddie Fisher at the Copa. She’s twenty-four now,. and still single, as cute, pretty and shapely as ever, but her hair is tinted a soft red and she wears it short in the current fash- ion. Backstage in the dressingroom of the Riviera nightclub, where she has worked for three seasons, she was willing to dis- cuss Eddie, “Eddie and I were a big romance for a long time,” Joan Wynne admitted, “some- thing like five years. When we first met we were both just out of high school, a first Joan Wynne: the girl he didn't marry. job and everything. There wasn’t any of this glamour or anything there is now. It was completely different. “Besides working in a, nightclub, we “never saw the inside of one. In the first place, Eddie never had any money. He only worked at the Copa for three months. I was there for a year and a half. After he left, he didn’t have a job for almost a year, I’d say, but he still came around to the Copa and waited for me. He never ‘came into the club because he didn’t have the money. He didn’t like to be around like a bum. aie ; “When he was working at the Copa, we ‘used to go for walks along Fifth Avenue and Central Park between shows. In the afternoons, we went to the movies on Forty-second. Street, sometimes two and three double features a day. Eddie loves the movies. Afterwards, we’d have a hot dog. That’s all we could afford. “Sometimes we visited his family in Philadelphia. 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I, ADDRESS CITY Ty eee always uppermost in his mind. It came first, which is the way it should be, I sup- pose. 3 at “We used to have a lot of fights and ar- guments, then two years ago at Christ- mas we had a big fight. That was the be- ginning of the end. He wrote to me when he was in the Army, and we're still friends. A couple of weeks ago, he was out at the Club with some friends. I went- out and sat down with him. | “I don’t think he’s changed at all. He has good instincts. He isn’t flighty or fickle. It’s just that there are always millions of people around him, a million phone calls, a million things to be done. It’s as though he hasn’t had time to rest. He thinks noth- ing of working hard and singing and meet- ing. people. Batt : “Eddie always said I was the only one he could ever really relax with, but after we had our big argument, I started seeing other people. I want to be happily mar- ried. I met someone who is just about the finest person I ever met. He’s wonderful, but Eddie was on my mind when I met this person and I know that was bad.” Why, then, if this love of Eddie’s had consumed a fifth of his lifetime, was he so reluctant to talk about it?) Or maybe there was some truth to the report that Eddie’s ‘mentors thought it better if he remained single. : ; : "[ 55 were questions that only Eddie could answer. . He was there for the answering, relaxed and handsome, sitting in his livingroom, one of the most successful entertainers in America, today, and an eligible bachelor. Because he is a nice person—honest and anxious to be liked and understood -he broke his long silence about his love life, his romantic interests and told his side of the story. His dark eyes flashing, he unleashed his feelings. i “I have never been advised by my managers nor anyone else about my per- sonal life,” he ‘said adamantly. “I’m free to do whatever I want, when I want, ‘and how I want. : hans “It’s just that I have been so tied up with my career, with the tv show and radio, that I haven’t had time for much social life. This is the first time since I’ve come back from the Army that I’ve been in one place so long. t ; “ “As for Joan Wynne, she’s a wonderful girl. We’re friends. We went together for a long time. I was just starting out in show business. I didn’t meet many people. We always went around together. I was struggling and she was very, very nice. We were good company. I went steady with’ her, but I was out of town a lot. I never knew anybody when I came to town. I’d call her up and we’d go to a movie, some- times two or three,” he chuckled. ¢ “Although we went together for a long while, I guess I just didn’t love her engugh, if I didn’t marry her. All my time was spent with my work, with my singing. There was never a girl in my life who came before singing. Ft “This business of not getting married _ because it might affect my career is non- sense. I won’t get married until the right girl comes along. : ; “T like the outdoor type, the natural girl. I would prefer that she not be in show’ business. It wouldn’t be good to have two careers. There'd be a conflict. I’m very jeal- ous. I would want my wife all for myself. “So far,” he said simply, “I haven’t met the right girl. When she comes along, it'll be wonderful.” : With fervor and feeling, the bachelor baritone had cleared up the secrecy sur- ‘rounding his love life. He proved another thing, too—that he’s an all right guy look- ing for the right girl. ay Re = nel ee

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it’s heen a good life (Continued from page 04) Lone Pine had promoted another half-degree of heat while he was talking. This was August and Lone Pine was really leaning into it. The scene was location for 20th Century-Fox’s King Of The Khyber Rifles, the fourth week the company had been at it, and everybody looked a trifle wilted. Power and his leading woman, Terry Moore, were having a rough time of it in a dismantled fortress looking out on what was presum- ably India’s Khyber Pass. Although Power and Miss Moore had spent most of the day in the fortress, they now were just getting ready to reach it, a piece of directorial se- quence too complicated to go into. They | had to grope in out of a dust storm, and not even Darryl Zanuck can will a dust storm in the Mojave Desert. Explosive had to be detonated and wind machines set to work. Visitors to the set were being urged to step aside a trifle—say about a mile down the road. “Please, please!” said an assistant to Director Henry King. “Any- body not connected with this sequence, please! Take to the hills!” The wind ma- chines snarled into action and Miss Moore, who is not fond of noise of any kind, squeaked and cowered. She and Power, among others, were seated on canvas chairs banked forward on a slope- of earth, directly behind the cam- eras. Power wore boots, rather snazzy campaign breeches and a T-shirt, having divested himself of tunic and kepi shortly before. Miss Moore, on the other hand, was dressed to kill—any male, for example, who happened to be lurking around Khyber Pass in the middle of the nineteenth cen- tury. What she was doing in a besieged fortress thus togged out was anybody’s guess, with the script writer the probable winner. “I'm not just generalizing,” resumed Power, over the noise of the machines. “Td be a fool not to know this thing’s going to blow up. My association with pictures, I mean. I’m pushing forty. The younger men are pushing up behind me. The kids are pushing up behind them. But the trouble with that figure of speech is, they’re not boosting me, they’re dislodging my hand- hold, and sooner or later, there’s not going to be room for everybody. All right. Last come, first served. That’s how I got there, too. But now’s the time to get the net ready, the one that has to break the fall. Not later. And there you have John Brown’s Body.” Paul Gregory’s production of John Brown’s Body, as just about everybody knows by now, is the dramatic reading of Stephen Vincent Benet’s poem, in which Power, Raymond Massey and Judith An- derson -have been teuring the country. It is significant that of the original group, only Power was reasonably firm in pic- tures. in this business, you’ve got to have estab- lished that you can-do something else.” A S HE spoke, Power’s professional stand- ing, as closely as can be determined, Was approximately this: When he first went out with John Brown, he was slipping. He. was, for instance, no longer the apple of Fox’s eye, no longer tendered their gaudiest parts as a matter of course, and there had even been talk of a loanout to a lesser studio, worthy picture makers but sometimes an oasis on the es- calator down. Instead, the loanout was to Universal-International and a film titled Mississippi Gambler, made in five fast weeks but mother lode as far as boxoffice Was concerned. Since there was no dis- cernible reason for this, save Power’s presence in the cast, he found himself “When,” he said, “you’re through | promptly back on top of the chute again - CC ee The “moisture-shield” in gentle new Fresh is an extra-effective astringent. This acts like an invisible shield to protect your clothesand stopembarrassing odor Ice-blue satin gown, an Italian Original by Eleanora Garnett, handmade in Rome. Decdorant, new Fresh gentle new deodorant has moisture - shield to keep underarms Instantly—Fresh Cream Deodorant forms an invisible shield to protect you and your clothes. Wonderful news! Gentle new Fresh with ““moisture-shield,” used daily, ends the problem of perspiration moisture which stains fabrics and causes unpleasant odor. University scientists have proved that gentle new Fresh has up to 180% greater Fresh is also manufactured and distributed in Canada. f astringent action than other leading cream deodorants. It’s the astringent action in deodorants that keeps underarms dry. Try this creamy-soft new Fresh today. keeps you Lovely to Love Fresh is a reg. trademark of The Pharma-Craft Corporation. 67

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and tossed by his home studio into Khyber Rifles, big budget stuff for these days. Yet the resurgence appears neither to-have ex- cited him nor settled his qualms. His ver- bal animation he reserved for his upcoming John Brown reprise and his problem as a whole. Indeed, the process of Khyber Rifles seemed to affect him as no more than a chore he had done before, likely would do again, and where was a good place to eat that night? “Forty,” he repeated, as though the idea both fascinated and oppressed him. “Forty years old. Not quite but almost. There’s no such thing as forever. That loanout was the first I’d had since ’ve been with Fox. Seventeen years with one studio, take or give a dime. That’s all right in a way. In another way—well, it’s the old squirrel cage again. This kind of picture here—” he indicated all of the Khyber set with a wave of his hand, “I guess it’s fine for the studio. I’ve made enough of them. Dashing fellow under the kepi, and all that. Stand the var- mints off and tell the little lady to keep her head down. But the edge wears away and wears away until one fine day you’re look- ing down a one-way street and no room to turn around. That’s when you need an out. “Mine, in a sense, came with the war.” Power served with honor as a Marine flier, first lieutenant when he returned to peace time. “A man would be a dangerous lunatic to speak of war as a blessing in any way, shape or manner, but I did come back to pictures with an entirely new perspective. That lasted two, three years. Then I could feel the staleness setting in again, the edge going. You know? Over and over. Swash and buckle, damn the torpedoes. One pic- ture I liked. Nobody else seemed to. Night- mare Alley.” Nightmare Alley, re-cap- suled here simply to illustrate the diver- gence between Power's point of view and his employers’, was derived from a book that featured the degeneration of a carni- val performer to the role of what carnies call a “geek.” A geek does not rescue dis- tressed females. He bites the heads off liv- ing chickens in a sideshow. Power later named a plane in which he toured the world The Geek. “I thought that picture would do something for me,” Power said. “My mistake.” “Here’s where I earn my money,” said Power. “Don’t go away.” He and Miss Moore walked out into the desert about fifty yards, turned and oriented themselves toward the fortress setup. They joined hands. The spectators were clear. There was a deep, coughing blast, three converg- ing wind machines boiled into high, and dust writhed and billowed up in an im- penetrable cloud. A few onlookers were genuinely scared. Presently Power and Miss Moore appeared out of the holocaust. They were the dustiest people you ever saw, their eyes staring out in pale, dark- ringed surmise. It developed they couldn’t see a thing in there. “All I could think of,” said. Miss Moore, “was, what if we walked into a wind ma- chine?” “A hell of a thing to happen to a man up in Khyber,” said Power. There was excitement and confusion up forward. Power grunted and turned side- wise with his hands up. “A hair on the lens,” he translated obligingly. “Got to do it again.” A hair on a camera lens makes for a picture that is divided and tricky in- deed. “Well, what’s the. difference? You know what they’ll say anyway, when the picture’s released. ‘Doubles. They always use doubles for shots like these.’ That’s what they'll say.” Pow does not, as you know, look forty. He looks, as you know equally well, like an amalgam of all the gentlemen in the toothpaste ads with the redeeming qualities of animation, humor, and high, Bucur Hniolinzenee es no ioe ee the juvenile facade of the pre-war years— his features are set now—but there are few lines, few departures from symmetry. He could still bound onto a musical comedy stage in flannels, carol “Tennis, anyone?” and get away with it, were he so a-mind. He is not so a-mind. “After every picture,” he said now, while functionaries were chipping off the lamp- black; “I’d go to the front office and ask for another formula, a change of pace. It was like talking down a rainspout. I don’t have to tell you. They knew best. Well, they did know best—for them. And for me, too, looking at it in a different way. You know, I sit here barking like a seal with colic, but this is strictly shop. I mean, you take the broad view and I owe pictures everything I’ve had in life, or adult life, and that’s been plenty. And by pictures, I’ve got to mean Fox. Besides all the other stuff, money and whatever the polite word for fame is—public interest, I guess—I’ve been all over the world, met kings and presi- dents—there’s just been no limit to it. I’ve got to say that. Every star’s got to say it if he’s not the world’s bottom slob of an in- graté. But the mistake is to ride with it, sit back and figure you’ve got it taped once and for all, I’ve made it, this is the end, I’m up to my rump in the pot at the end of the rainbow, amen. Accept that and it’s the beginning of the end. You haven’t arrived. You're dead.” A while back, when Tony Curtis first landed in Hollywood, voice coaches went to work on his Bronx accent to eliminate its traces in his film roles. Now Tony is working with a voice, coach—fo get back some of that Bronx accent for his role as a hoodlum in “Drifting.” peat) Skolsky Post He stretched out his dusty boots, leaned his head back and closed his eyes, blood- shot from dust and sun and ready for the little man with the drops. “Take Holly- wood,” he said. “I mean, the industry, the climate of Southern California, the whole set-up. It’s not really a good place to work. And it’s a worse place not to work, to lay off between pictures. Hollywood’s a lotus land. The sky is blue, the air is soft, the swimming pools are the right temperature, flowers everywhere, even the outdoor furn- iture is comfortable. Oh, you could lie back between jobs and vegetate in those lush surroundings, and God help you! What you ought to do—what I ought to do, what I have to do and do do—is get out right after a film and stay out till the next one. Complacency is too easy down there. They say death comes like a lover some- times, and when I breathe night-blooming jasmine, I believe it. No, lotus land is no good for work. The thing now is, make two pictures a year—you can’t make more any- way—and when fall comes, go out on the road and work at your trade. Keep at it. Stay alive, or that monkey with the jas- mine breath will get you yet.” Lo PinE proper, 1000-odd population, twenty-seven miles distant, drowsed heavily in the late afternoon sun. It would have drowsed in the shadow of Mt. Whit- ney, the United States’ biggest, if Mt. Whit- ney had been casting a shadow that day, which, oddly enough, it was not. Lone Pine isa village long inured to movie locations. In a combination restaurant and bar, a waitress said to another: “You seen Ty- rone Power yet?” giving it a pretty big Ty. Power thinks of his first name as Tuh-rone. “Unh-uh,” said the other. “One I want to oF eh Teak SoS Nes a are Grace even ee At ‘the bar, adere- lict of sensational aspect was in the custody of local law, who had orders to have him > on the next bus out of town. “I threw a guy through a plate glass window last night,” he said tiredly. “I wish I wouldn’t ever again throw a guy through a window. They run me out of ’Frisco for the same thing.” In the evening, it was cooler, down to about a flat ninety-five. Power, in his room in a motel south of town, was crisp and shaved and dapper in grey slacks and sports shirt, ready to take local friends of his to a farewell dinner in a nearby cafe. The friends had a filling station out the road. “When you're a so-called rising star,” he said, “which I was back around the time Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic, or so it seems right now, the psychological out- look is entirely different. You live from one picture to the next, there’s no tomorrow, and you never had it so good. Then one day you're what they call an established star. Don’t ask me when or how that day comes about because I don’t know. But that’s when you're supposed to have it made, really made. Naturally, that’s not the case. That’s the day you begin building for the - future. That’s the day you remember that sooner or later you start down the other side. You asked me about the difference in psychology, that’s the best I can do for you. Come to think .of it, its good enough, at that.” He changed the subject. “You know, these four weeks up here have really been something. Work, eat, sleep, read, go to the movies if you feel very footloose. Nothing else. Its wonder- ful, except that I ought to be home.” Linda Christian Power was, roughly two weeks thence, expected to present her hus- band with the Powers’ second child, confi- dent it would be a boy. The prospect mo- mentarily derailed Power’s train of thought. “Tinda is truly the one to ask,” he said. “The mother’s so much closer to these things. For my part, any child of mine, boy or girl, would have free rein until he reached the age of reason. What’s that— seventeen? Then I’d want to steer them as best I could, then implement for all I’m worth the decision they reach. Doctor, law- yer, merchant, nurse—or actor. I haven’t any fixed ideas right now, but then our first child, Romina, is only two, you know. There’s time. By the time she does reach that age, I’ll be close to fifty-five and ought to have made up my mind in some way. One thing, if either or both do decide that acting’s the deal, then I think we can dis- pense with some of the formal education. It’s not necessary to an actor, and I think I speak with some authority. A different sort of schooling and environment would be better. That’s pretty sweeping speculation, though. They’ll make up their own minds.” Power, of course, is as much the product of theatrical forebears as the Barrymores are. His great grandfather started it all on the Dublin stage in 1827. That was Tyrone Power, the original. A grandfather declined this particular tag, but Power’s own father, a noted Shakespearean actor earlier in the century, was Tyrone Power II. ([ ¥R0NE Power may’ be ready to say good- bye to Hollywood now, or au revoir at the least. It is fairly well established that he ~ wants to set up his own producing company: _ in Rome and that plans are, at this time, well along toward completion. When he’s not doing that, he’ll be play-acting where- ever audiences can be found. The circle . that, for him, began in earnest in 1936 with — the Fox picture, Lloyds Of London, has H come complete now. The dossier above is offered in evidence. But it was quite a circle for all of ice 68

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and considerably slow in beginning. The first breath took place in Cincinnati, where testimony indicates he was a well-behaved -if not prodigious infant. After that, there was a spell of being trunked about from one theatre habitat to another, and a sit- FOR RAIN, SLEET OR SNOW ting out of World War I on the sands of | Coronado, California, while his mother su- pervised troop entertainment in and about San Diego. Power was roughly thirteen years too young for the draft. The legitimate theatre took rather kindly to Power as a child mime, although veteran player Fritz Lieber almost tore his head off with a knife—purely by accident—during a rendering of The Merchant Of Venice. By and by, he was ready to foresake this and sniff around the edges of the Holly- wood cheese. But the time was not yet. Furthermore, his associations’ with- the place had “been jarred shockingly by the death of his distinguished father. While working on the film, The Miracle Man, he collapsed, and, hours later, he died in. his son’s arms. _ There was stage and radio work further east for a longish spell after that, usually under expert tutelage. Don Ameche helped, Eugenie Leontovich helped, Helen Men- cken helped. Katharine Cornell helped. You can’t get much better help than that. Followed then summer stock, followed then more Broadway (notably the role of De Ponlengey in Miss Cornell’s St. Joan), followed then Darryl Zanuck. Nor is it, nor has it ever been, at that time or later, fair to say of Power that his prime asset was a supremely photogenic face with an overlay of animal magnetism. Spectacular refutation, at any rate, of this quasi-slur is contained in the observation of Edmund Goulding, a stage and film di- rector of sound critical faculty, who has referred to Power categorically as “the | greatest actor of this generation.” The ef- fulgence of that one is thought by friends | sufficient to warm Power for a lifetime. Ore set in films, Power played his cards as they fell, but with the increasing | restlessness of an authentically sensitive and creative talent. The timely—as ever— arrival of the United States Marines inter- | vened. Sensitivity was. not precisely what | they sought, but_Power proved an asset, | © anyway. He moved up from boot camp at | San Diego to ocs at Quantico, into Squad- | ron 353 of the Marine Transpért command, and flew out of such rest spots as Kwaja- lein, Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Kyu- shu A new grip on things subsequently | brought him in the post-war years to his greatest stature as a film actor, but, as duly recorded, the inroads of what he believed to be a static situation began to gnaw at him again. The hair in his personal lens diffused the frame into several Tyrone Powers: star, world traveler, international gadabout in a quiet way, some disposition | te a scholarly bent to which he has always | been more or less subject, and finally the flowering of his professional growth in John Brown’s Body. Here was a cleavage, an incisive turning away from one thing and toward another. Power’s official Fox biography, a rip- roaring document of eleven pages, states | among other musings that its subject’s | favorite color is blue, his favorite fruit the avocado, his favorite classical painter Van Gogh, and his favorite illustrator Petty, he who throws perspective away when it comes to girls’ legs. Assuredly, the biogra- phy is thorough. Its one mainfest failing is that it comes to an end. There is a-strong feeling here and there that this is not the ease at all, that there is a great deal more to come, and that the second part will be better yet. The hair in the lens may have moved aside now; the picture should be clearer. END SS See Soeenne RUBBER BOOT’S TREAD 100% fully molded with no seams to come apart. Sturdy to with- stand wear, yet light on your feet. Transparent. Deep sharp tread est on StF oy Guarextced by shoe, notion and rainwear counters everywhere cos ancetes LUCKY SALES CO., ING. sew vork « cuicaco 69

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Ask your beautician for Professional - Applications of Nestle Hair Color. lanza lives big (Continued from page 48) no gate around it. One night they entertained at a buffet dinner, and afterwards Mario was asked to perform. He sang six numbers, the last of which was “Call Me Fool.” Applause, bravos, shouts of “More. We want more. Don’t stop now,” began to emanate from outside. Betty went to the | window. “You wouldn’t believe it,” she recalls. “People in cars going down the highway had heard Mario singing. The drivers had stopped. They had followed the | sound of the music. They had parked their cars in our driveway, and a whole audience had formed outside our windows. Mario was giving a free concert, and these people didn’t want to miss a Single trick. “Mario didn’t mind. He was pleased and flattered. Only the very next day, the word spread around. Soon we had coeds from the .university banging on the door, and that surprising woman who saves Mario’s old clothes (she wanted to know if he | had anything to throw away) and all kinds | of salesmen and crackpots; so in self-de- fense there was only one thing to do. I ordered one of those photo electrically- controlled gates installed across the drive- way. That was the first change we made in the house.” Others followed. A complete inter-com- | munications system was placed in the four- teen-room mansion. Betty insisted upon this very quickly. “I always want to know what’s going on in the nursery,” she says. “Besides, this house is so large that if I didn’t have an intercom I’d walk my feet off going from one room to another.” Betty also made sure that the garden fish pond was well-fenced. And a month after the Lanzas moved into the place, they found Ellisa climbing up the Chinese carved bal- ustrade that adorns the living room bal- cony, whereupon the railing was backed with smooth plywood boards. At about the-same time, there was a series of robberies in the neighborhood, so Mario had the house rigged with a com- plete burglar alarm system and then flooded the grounds each night with ex- terior lighting to keep the prowlers away. ARIo’S favorite room is, of course, his studio, which he also uses as a den and | office. It is a large room, equipped with | sliding glass doors and furnished in con- | temporary style. It contains all his re- | cording equipment, his vast record library, his books, and his scripts. The furniture is oversized and covered with a green and white worsted to match - the draperies. There is a green leather easy chair and a small upright piano. There are no rugs in the room because of the acous- tics. The studio has its own private patio, and Lanza usually has his lunch there. Two | hard-boiled eggs and coffee. The house is built in the form of a large “H” with the enormous living room as the center line. Running parallel to the living room is a glass-enclosed sun porch, one end of which Betty Lanza uses as her office. She has four in help plus Mario and three children. to look after, and this takes quite a bit of careful planning. Betty works at a large-top desk with a telephone at one elbow and a filing cabinet at the other. Near her desk, as a memento of Mario’s childhood, she keeps the phonograph which his family bought for nim when he was a boy of ten. The sun porch is done in nile green. It boasts a brick floor and contains in addi- tion to some solid oak furniture, another television set, a radio, a fireplace which backs up che one in the living room, and an octagonal table good for card-playing. The eating rooms are downstairs, the nursery and sleeping quarters upstairs. The children’s © bedrooms are grouped — around one large playroom with Colleen RS AG Se 4 and Ellisa sharing the nursery, and Damon, eight months old, coming in once in a while for his bit of fun with his sisters. The nursery is decorated in pink and equipped with quantities of toys. “We don’t believe in spoiling our chil- dren,” Mario says, “but childhood is the time for fun, and Betty and I just live for the smiles on those little faces. When I see Ellisa and Colleen and that Damon— that boy is really a bruiser—when I see them all playing together in that nursery, I just want to sing until the rafters shake.” There used to be two nurses for the three Lanza children, but now there is one nurse who looks after Damon while Betty supervises the two girls. The Lanzas have two rather small dining rooms, small, that is, for a family that rarely dines out. The breakfast room is bright and gay, and exactly right for the children, who take their meals there. The dining room, on the other hand, with its well-cushioned wrought-iron furniture and its $1000 tea service, is a mite too small for the large dinner parties Mario likes. Of late, however, the Lanza family has limited its guests to ten or twelve and gone in for barbecues. Thick charcoal- broiled steaks are the main dish. This Christmas, as usual, Mario plans to have open house with brunch served from noon until midnight. Ordinarily, from two hun- dred to five hundred people show up at these festivities. Sometimes the activity gets so hectic at this affair that Mario and Betty: go upstairs, lock themselves in the master bedroom, and toast each other with pink champagne. (THE master bedroom is dominated by one of the largest beds in the entire film colony. In Betty’s own words, “It stretches from here to eternity.” The room, however, is extremely large and the oversize bed is therefore in proportion. It cost $1800, handmade bedspread included. “The reason we like a big bed,” Mario says, “is because the children come in every morning and climb all over us and we like to rough-house with them. Betty screams when they jump up and down on the mattress, but I don’t mind. It’s much better than their jumping up and down on my chest.” Green and red are the dominant colors of the room, and there’s a balcony which looks out on the garden. The room also contains a small desk at which Betty does some of her work. All the furniture is modern and utilitarian, with no period pieces whatever. The Lanza house is a happy home, and stories to the effect that Mario and Betty are constantly quarreling simply amuse them. “For years,” Betty says, “those rumors used to upset me. Now, we realize that they’re just an integral part of the Holly- wood grapevine, and we don’t pay them any attention. A few weeks ago Mario bought two of the cutest boxer puppies for Colleen and Ellisa. He built a play pen for the dogs, and the girls have just been having the greatest time with them. There’s one columnist in town, however, who in- sists that our puppies are really ferocious Great Danes, guarding the property.” In a home where people sing and chil- dren smile, happiness must play the major role. The size of the Lanza estate, the Cadillacs, the equipment, the gadgets, the physical property—all these are nothing compared to the light in Colleen’s eyes, the smile on Damon’s lips, the clapping of Ellisa’s hands, and the beating of Beity’s heart when Mario comes into his house, looks around that tremendous living room of his, and at the top of his lungs, shouts, “How’s my family today?” END

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“that you have no intentions of ever mar- rying Lex?” “Td never say that.” “Then there is that possibility?” “Of course.” Lana Turner said, “but right now I don’t know.” : “Is that because, Miss Turner, you’ve been going around with Carlos Thompson in London?” Lana was angry. “I should say not. I haven’t been out with anyone.” “What do you do at night?” “I told you. It’s dull. I just work and sleep.” Not very long before this conversation took place, Lana had told another reporter, “Tm being attacked in Hollywood for see- ing too much of Lex Barker since I left. We've been misquoted as saying we're deeply in love with each other. We’re just close friends, and we’ve definitely no mar- riage plans. I want a rest from marriage.” What is the truth? Will Lana marry Lex or won’t she? According to an intimate, “Lana doesn’t know, herself. She says she wants a rest from marriage, but that’s only because her marriages, thus far, have been unhappy. This girl is completely without self-suffi- ciency. She’s got to have a man. Now, for a girl like that, marriage is indispensable. That’s why I think she’ll marry Lex before the year is over.” This same source, a leading figure in the motion picture industry who has known Lana since she was fifteen, goes on to point out that Barker would probably make the actress an excellent husband. “One of Lana’s biggest mistakes,” he ex- ‘plains, is her poor judgment when men are involved. Artie Shaw was too smart for her. Stephen Crane wasn’t good enough for her, and Bob Topping had too much social background for her. “This Barker boy, however, seems to fit her needs perfectly. You’d never call him dull, but certainly he’s no mental heavy- weight. Neither is Lana. He got a few more years in high school than she did, but in- tellectually, they’re on a par. That’s one reason they get on so well together. Pri- marily, they're physical creatures, both very attractive, both very charming, both very kind. “Lex has been married a couple of times and so has Lana. What have they got to lose?” ‘Ts seems to be the consensus of Holly- wood opinion about Lex and Lana, but where the Turner beauty is concerned, one rule has always held true—anything can happen. Lana is a mercurial woman who falls in and out of love quickly and unexpectedly. Just look at some of her past perform- ances. Supposedly, she was in love with Greg Bautzer when she ran off and mar- ried Artie Shaw. Supposedly, she was in love with Turhan Bey when she ran off and married Steve Crane. Supposedly, she was engaged to Tyrone Power when a few months later she became Mrs. Henry “Bob” Topping. Supposedly, she had been in love with Fernando Lamas when, not long after, she flew to Europe with Lex Barker. How do you figure a girl like that? Is she a creature of whim, a victim of cir- cumstances, a child of impulse? Adela Rogers St. John, a writer who has watched Lana in action at MGM for more than a decade, says, “Lana is an exaggerat- ed, unconventional, slightly mad, utterly enchanting creature unlike anybody else in the world, with plenty of brains but practically no sense.” All of which means that Lana Turner is absolutely unpredictable, or as one girl on the set of The Flame And The Flesh con- fided to a columnist, “She’ll marry Lex Barker, I think, provided she doesn’t fall tams- “TRIPLE-STAY” LIPSTICK ae makes the di ING SIE JUMBO onl, y 39¢ Discover for yourself the excitement of “Triple-Stay” ... the thrill of more seductive, more alluring lips : GOLD FINISH that stay lovely the Flame-Glo way. METAL CASES In fact, beauty’s at your lips three times Actual Size longer than with ordinary indelible or no-smear lipsticks! You'll love the velvet-smooth Fastenol-blended formula .. . the dazzling range of shades... the moist color-brilliance that’s / sealed to your lips till yo remove it. Keep kissable with Flame-Glo, the different lipstick that makes a difference in you. Try it! “TRIPLE-STAY” LIPSTICK SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER Rejuvia Beauty Labs Inc.,Dept. C P.0.Box 39, N.Y.12,N.Y. Please send me your special introductory offer ‘of 3 Flame-Glo Lipsticks, and Booklet on Lip Beauty all for 25c. (Coin only) .Check coloring. 1 Blonde {1 Brunette OO Titian NE ie eee td See nes ea OO iM ler oa eg eae 7 Address tite Core BUs esi aa aera uu ae Gity nario ies eens ONC we Statesis eet en = é 2 . Sf)

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in love with somebody else before she gets around to it.” Friends of Lex Barker say that Lex knows this, that he realizes how suscep- tible Lana can be to masculine charms, and they attribute his European stay to _ that very understanding. When Lex flew over to Paris with Lana this past spring, he was scheduled to re- turn to Hollywood in the summer to make a film for producer Eddie Small. Only Lex didn’t return. He had his agent, Paul Kohner, find some film work for him in Europe. Lex wanted to be near Lana. For weeks during the months of April and May they had been inseparable, traveling through France, Spain, and Italy. Lex had even accompanied Lana to England. He had spent so much time courting this beauty in Hollywood and Palm Springs, he was tak- ing no chance of losing her to some Euro- pean dandy. He asked Eddie Small for an extension of Cannibal Island, the picture he was scheduled to make in Hollywood. Small said, “Sure.” Opp enough, there wasn’t too much dif- ficulty in getting Lex a job or two in Europe, despite the fact that most conti- nental film producers had never heard of him except in connection with Lana Turn- er. This isn’t surprising. As an actor, Lex is a relative beginner. Anyway, Paul Kohner signed him to a role in a picture tentatively entitled Tiger Of Malaya, and then booked him for work in a French film, They Still Fish On Sunday. As a result of these bookings, Kohner is now asking $25,000 per picture for Lex Barker, and Lex has had enough money to phone Lana in London practically every night. Not too long ago, Lex wrote a friend in Hollywood, explaining that he was very upset about items in the news- papers to the effect that he had quarreled with Lana. “We've been apart for about a month,” he wrote at the time, “but we call each other every other day. It’s expensive but helpful.” A few days later, unable to stay away from his love, Lex flew to London. He and Lana saw each other at Maidenhead over the weekend. Then Lex flew back to work. When Hollywood heard about Lex’s fast flight to London, one columnist quipped, “Boy! That’s a switch.” The reference was to the time in 1947 when Lana was very much in love with Tyrone Power. She was making Green Dolphin Street at MGM and Ty was on lo- cation in Mexico. Undaunted, Lana decided that she simply had to see her sweetheart. She flew to Mexico where bad weather prevented her from getting back to work for two days. Luckily, a kind director shot around her while she was absent. Lana isn’t that foolhardy any longer— either that, or she doesn’t care for Lex in the same way she cared for Ty—but she still believes in obeying her impulses. As a matter of fact, that’s how her friendship with Lex began—on impulse. Last year, at the extravaganza thrown for Johnny Ray at the Marion Davies man- sion, Lana was escorted by Fernando Lamas. Lex came to the party with Susan Mor- row. During an interlude, Lana impulsive- ly asked Lex Barker for a dance. Lex said it would be an honor. It’s a matter of rec- ord that Lamas blew his top when he saw Lana and Lex together. He called Lana some choice names, challenged Lex to a fight, and then drove Lana home. Lana will not tell what happened after Lamas brought her to her house on Maple- ton Drive. The next morning, however, she was in a sorry state, and admitted that she and Fernando were finished. Sas weeks later, Lex Barker began to lay siege to the Turner heart, and his ardor has never diminished. For almost a year, he has been Lana’s trusted friend. When Lana announced that she was go- ing overseas to make pictures, Lex, through his press agent, announced that he was seriously thinking of forming his own in- dependent production company in Europe. What this meant, of course, was that Lex intended to follow Lana, to be with her as much as possible. An MGM executive, upon hearing this, expressed the opinion that it would not be in the best taste for Lex and Lana to travel all over Europe together. Like Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner, two other children of impulse, Lana Turn- er has never catered to public opinion. When she flew to Paris this past April, Lex Barker was with her. When she arrived in Spain, Lex Barker was close at hand. At Cannes, Capri, in Rome, in London, it was Lex and Lana. Tongues wagged but the lovers paid them no heed. Allegedly, Lex said that it was okay for him to travel with Lana, because his in- tentions were honorable; and they certain- ly have been. When Lex left Lana in London to con- tinue work on The Flame And The Flesh— some background shots had been made in Naples previously—Lana had dyed her hair from the familiar blonde to dark reddish. Lex was sad to leave her. Lana, however, threw herself into the picture with en- thusiasm and vigor. “I’ve got more acting to do in this one than I’ve ever done be- fore,” she explained to one newspaperman. “It’s really very tough. I play a young Italian girl, cynical, tough, jaded. She’s not exactly a prostitute, but she wanders from man to man, and I’m trying to make the girl look very real. “T don’t want people to say, “Turner’s bitten off more than she can chew.’ I spent a lot of time in Italy watching how girls of this type dress and walk and behave, and in this picture, I just wear a dress and an old suit, and my hair. Well, you can see for yourself. Pretty dark, isn’t it?” T= reporter asked if, after thirty or - forty films, she had conquered her stage fright. “No,” she said, “I still almost have a nervous breakdown before a picture starts. I’m afraid Ill forget my lines or trip over my feet or just make a fool of myself.” Reputedly in financial trouble (the story goes that she had to take a whopping advance from MGM in order to meet her back income taxes) Lana admitted that she is trying to sell her Holby Hills house, the one with the six Tv sets. “I don’t in- tend to return to Hollywood for a while, so I might as well sell the place.” No one has met the asking price of $175,000. Lana also said that she did not favor her daughter’s future entrance into show busi- ness. “I once said I’d try to keep her out of this rat race, and I mean it. It’s okay if you stay up there among the winners, but everyone can’t be lucky.” As for being in love with her latest suitor, Mr. Alexander Crichlow Barker of Rye, New York, Lana insisted that she had been misquoted. “We’re just good friends.” There’s nothing wrong in a girl’s marry- ing a good friend especially when he’s tall, handsome, slavish in his devotion, and capable of making a good living. Now, that The Flame And The Flesh is finished, and work is no longer on her mind, Lana has done that very thing. If she hadn’t, all of Hollywood would have — been disappointed. Lana has been in love with the idea of marriage for a long, long time. END —eee—— homesick but happy (Continued from page 43) “This is some reception,” I said. “What’s to be so excited about?” “Don’t flatter yourself,’ Alan advised. “You're the first of the Old Guard we’ve seen for a long time.” He handed me the kind of drink that separates the men from the boys. As we mingled with the guests, I kept a reporter’s eye on Sue and Alan to see whether or not their extended European trip had changed them. I confess that even if I hadn’t liked them for many years—even if I had been looking for trouble—I couldn’t have taken a poke at their behavior. I sup- pose ten or twenty million words have been written about the Ladds, and I’ve never seen them referred to as “homey people.” Oh, I know that people write a lot about their magnificent home and their still more magnificent ranch. The fact is that Alan is perhaps the richest of the present genera- tion of movie stars, and possibly he is a little dull for reporters, because he never 4 engages in what we refer to as “Errol ”? Flynns.” He stays close to his wife and family. Also, much has been made of the fact that Alan, due to the number of pic- tures he has made abroad, was partly eli- gible for the “tax dodge.” I know these things. Many another re- porter-photographer knows them, too. I know that Ladd, like every other star, is open to criticism. Wide open in every move he makes. Yet, here at Banff, in this con- servative crowd of people, many of whom had never seen a movie star and had a par- donable antipathy for celebrities, Mr. and Mrs. Ladd got along as though they had known the other guests all their lives. It was not until I woke up the next morning at ten—with a guilty conscience— that I was aware that Alan was still a movie star, and he was still the same old Alan Ladd. He and Sue never have been the up - and - early - chest - beating type. When I called their room I was given a D.A. (Don’t answer). So I knew that their telephone would be shut off until around noon. Not that they sleep that late. It’s only their way of squeezing in a little private family life before they expose themselves to an admiring, but endless public. As I stepped off the elevator, I saw Alan sneak- ing through a side corridor, a frisky dachs- hund tugging ahead on a leash. He never has been the type to stroll through a lobby to let the people know there’s a movie star around. As a matter of fact, in order to reach Banff Springs, he and Sue had arranged their schedule so that they could leap into a cab (two cabs to be exact) with their family, directly from the Queen Elizabeth, and land on a Cana- dian Pacific railway car, spending only a half-hour in New York. Alan has more friends among reporters than almost any other star, but he can’t get used to the fact that every move he makes is an event. “T’ll meet you at one o’clock on the first tee, if you’re not doing anything else,” he said, knowing full well that my camera and I were there only to take pictures of him. “It’s a date,” I replied, and went into the dining room. A captain came up to me. “Mr. Parry? Mrs. Ladd just called and sug- gested that you’d better have a big break- fast. She ordered orange juice, wheatcakes and ham and eggs. Will that be satisfac- tory?” I said it would, realizing that, as always, __ roe |

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Sue had automatically adopted me as one of the family. It was a good feeling. I ate the breakfast with considerable relish. And while I was at it, I pondered the talk that Alan and I had fallen into the night before. I think his thousands of friends should know this, too: that for many years Alan had planned his trip to Europe. He is not the type of actor who starts counting his money when he wakes up in the morning. His business manager does that kind of worrying for him. Alan did a couple of pictures in Europe and he’s going back for another one. But he didn’t do these pictures in order to take advantage of the eighteen- month tax exemption. All of his earnings have been impounded by his own business manager, and whatever taxes are to be paid will be paid. Like any other tax payer, if he has a legitimate deduction, hell be grateful for it, and he reserves the right to beef about the amount of taxes he pays, just like the rest of us. But he knows, too, that the movie business has been wonder- ful to him and to his family. He wants no more, nor less, than what is coming to him. AS I say, Alan Ladd is family. With many another actor the emphasis is on the big “I am.” With Alan, it’s different. He’s not an actor first and a human being sec- ond. Thai’s clear enough if you have seen him with Sue and their children, Carol Lee, Laddie, Alana and David. Any of these kids, stripped of the glamour and wealth that surrounds them as children of Alan Ladd, could walk into a schoolyard and “get with it” with a gang in a matter of minutes. They have never been pam- pered and do not expect any favors. Only in one department are the Ladds “too soft” in their family relations. They are suckers for their dogs. The boxers and the dachshunds can ruin their gardens, jump through plate glass windows and ruin the rugs with no more punishment than a harsh look. The newest arrival in their canine division is an impudent little hound they’ve named Beret, for the picture, Red Beret. They picked up this important little monster on their European trip, and he acts just like what he is—a German dog with a French name. I made Beret’s acquaintance out on the golf course right after breakfast. Alan had been making some practice shots while waiting for me, and Beret was showing how smart he was by retrieving the golf balls. As I arrived on the tee, a young lady was having words with Alan. She flounced away with no small degree of petulance. “What was all that about?” I asked. Alan grinned. “That dope, Beret. I hooked out into the next fairway. What did this guy do but run over and bring me back two golf balls. I tried to explain io the lady, but she wouldn’t buy my alibi.” We setiled down for eighteen holes of golf, with Beret tagging along and giving us dirty looks because we wouldn’t let him retrieve every shot we made. Alan played his usual steady game in the middle eight- ies. “I can’t say I care too much for this course,” he said. “The scenery is so great you can’t keep your eye on the ball, and the grass grows so fast you feel as though you oughi to run to the next tee before it’s up to your ears.” Later, at the nineteenth hole—the one golfers find in the tavern when the game is over—he grew serious. “This trip has been wonderful for my family,” he said. “Long before I earned my first dollar in pictures I thought about having a family and getting around the world a litile. I know how many other people spend years saving for a trip, and I wanted my kids to have the experience before they setile down to the serious business of getting an education, working for a living and raising their own families. 'm proud of my kids. They have some special talents, but being an actor’s child can be a handicap, I know. I hope that Sue and I have taught them to meet their problems on a level with every- one else. Sue, like every other mother, has had most of the responsibility, and I think she is doing a tremendously fine and nor- mal job.” I am not a writer, but as an old friend of the Ladds, I think I can explain them better than most writers. Carol Lee, soon to graduate from her teens, took a year off from college to make this trip. She is sec- ond mother to the Ladd children, while Laddie, now fifteen, is the big brother. The only discord I noted was the kind that is normal in all families. ALKING with them, I discovered that theirs was nothing but a “fun trip” through Europe, during which Alan was kidded unmercifully because he couldn’t get used to the foreign food. Everywhere they went, the rest of the family delighted in trying strange dishes in interesting res- taurants but Alan kept asking for ham- burgers. Despite their jeering that he could get a freight car of them when he got home, Alan finally located a sympa- thetic chef in Heidelberg, and talked him into preparing hamburger with chili. “J still think,” Alan told me, “that noth- ing would perk up those countries like a few chains of motels and hamburger stands.” On the second evening of our stay at the Banff Springs Hotel, one of the college kids invited the Ladds to their dance. It was held on the ski lift, which was bereft of snow at that time of year. Alan and Sue mingled with the kids and had a wonder- iul time. Unfortunately, this is not the best place in the world for fishing. Due to the altitude, Palmolive Soap Is 100% Mild TO HELP YOU GUARD THAT lovin Loote ! =a Palmolives Beauty Plan Is Far Better For Your Skin Than Just Average Care” With Any Leading Toilet Soap! 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REPORT ON A SWEETHEART Joanne Gilbert is 21, In Love and Engaged m Ever since MoDERN SCREEN intro- duced Joanne Gilbert to its readers some months ago there has been a flood of mail asking for more news about her. This is it: Joanne has just turned 21. and to celebrate she re- turned to sing at night club Mocam- bo where she was discovered a year ago. This time she smashed all rec- ords, including the one set by veteran comedian Joe E. Lewis. Among the big stars who flocked to see her was Rosemary Clooney, who is Joanne’s Number One Fan and vice versa. Rosemary brought Joanne a piece of wedding cake, a “residual” from her own marriage to José Ferrer, and was greeted by the news that Miss Gilbert, too, had cause to celebrate. She is engaged to marry Danny Arnold, ace writer for Martin and Lewis. Joanne, who has the most exciting pair of legs since Marlene Dietrich, and a figure that doesn’t take second place to Marilyn Monroe, has always been a “one man” girl. Her first night’s appearance at Mocambo was torture, “like being put in an arena with wild lions,” but Joanne has managed to suppress her timidity, and in the Paramount pic- ture, Red Garters, the report is that she comes over like Gang Busters. Bold though her costumes may be, Joanne Gilbert is a definite introvert. To the annoyance of other actresses, her ceaseless appetite for sweets has no negative effect on her supple figure. or for some other reason, the fish don’t spawn in the multitudes you would expect. Still; Alan and David had a fine time. As Alan explained it, “When a boy and his dad go fishing, it’s not what they catch that matters, it’s the companionship they get out of tossing their lines into the water, talking and being together.” It’s the “being together” that makes the Ladds a great family. Alan Ladd is not put together like the movie star who feels that he is not being “manly” unless he gets away from his family and carries on some minor or serious flirtations with local belles, wherever he goes. Somehow, young people sense the integrity in this man and respect him for it. We were sitting in the tavern, having a last glass of beer. Outside, the rain poured down in a flood. The tavern keeper came over and said to Alan, “There are a lot of kids outside, waiting for your autograph.” ib hes Quickly Alan replied, “I know there are too many for you to ask them to come in. And if I went outside, they would have to stand around, soaking wet, waiting for me to sign their autographs. Why don’t you ask them all to sign their names, bring them to me and I'll see that autographs are mailed as soon as I get back to Hollywood.” The tavern keeper thought that was a considerate plan, so he went out and told the kids. I don’t have to tell you that Alan kept his promise. He always does. By this time he’s back in Hollywood, and it’s like he said to me: “This trip is the greatest thing - that ever happened to us, but we've been homesick as the devil, most of the time. We're happy to be home in Hollywood where we belong.” END (Alan Ladd can be seen ™m Saskatche- wan, a Universal-International picture.) On ——— the big guy takes the stand (Continued from page 16) that Mrs. Wayne is going to amplify her charge of physi- cal cruelty against America’s number-one box office attraction. The elaboration of that charge is cer- tainly going to be one of the most fascin- ating aspects of the divorce action. Mrs. Wayne has been seen with a black eye on occasion, and she is sure to testify or offer depositions as to how, where, why, and from whom she received such tell- tale bruises. It is no secret that in preparation for the divorce trial, private detectives have been hired “‘to get the goods” on each of the participants. Both the plaintiff and the defendant in the pending trial have made that clear. A FEw weeks ago, Mrs. Wayne’s lawyer hired a couple of detectives to see what they could find out about Wayne's behavior while he was in Mexico making his latest film, Hondo. He explained to the two investigators that Mrs. Wayne did not have enough money to pay them at the time. Should the private eyes return to Los Angeles with evidence that could be used in court— either photographs or recordings—then they would be well taken care of. That is, they would be paid at the end of the divorce trial when the Court ordered a final financial settlement. The detectives were also told not to undertake the job unless they sincerely believed in the righteousness of Mrs. Wayne’s cause—that out of the $500,000 John Wayne makes each year, she was en- titled to more than the temporary alimony allotment of $13,200 per year. The two detectives made their way to Camargo, Mexico, where Duke was on lo- cation. They attempted to install small, hidden microphones in Wayne’s hotel suite. Instead of entering Wayne’s suite, how- ever, they got into the apartment of the governor of Chihuahua, the top official in that area. : They were arrested and (with their recording equipment) tossed into the Ca- margo jail. A few hours later, the news services were carrying reports to the effect that the two detectives, both of Los Angeles, were in jail for installing “bugs” in the suite of the governor of Chihuahua. These two detectives were sent to Mexico by attorneys representing Mrs. Esperanza Wayne, John Wayne’s estranged wife. Al- legedly, they were below the border to gather evidence against Wayne who is in Camargo working on a film. His two sons are with him there on vacation. According to Ward Bond, one of Duke’s best friends, who was down in Camargo at the time, this is what happened. “One afternoon,” Bond recalls, “Duke gets a phone call from one of the Mexican police officials. He tells Duke that the Mexican police have picked up two guys from Los Angeles who were attempting to ‘bug’ a room at the Santa Rosalia Motel. He also says that after searching these two characters they found one with a letter addressed to John Wayne. “Duke says he never heard of the guys. The police say, ‘We’ve got ‘em in jail, and we're holding them on four or five differ- ent counts, entering the country illegally, working without a working permit, forced entry into a room, tampering with the mails, spying on the governor, and a lot of other stuff.’ “One of these two detectives is fat and the other is lean. One lives in Glendale, and the other in Los Angeles. They're in- terrogated by the police, and they say that they were hired by Chata’s lawyer, Jerry Rosenthal, to come down to Mexico to investigate Duke. They say very frankly, and mind you, they swear to this in a signed statement to the Mexican author- ities, that they were trying to find Duke with some girl. This is a very funny thing in a way, because at the time, Duke’s brother, Bob Morrison, was down there with his fiancée. These two guys appar- ently got some wrong information from someone and figured that Duke was with a girl who'll probably be his sister-in-law. eventually. “Anyway, the governor of Chihuahua didn’t know what to believe. He didnt know whether these two guys were private detectives or spies or Communists or what. ; “Being the kind of decent fellow he is. Duke explained that they had been hired by his wife to tail him and that they had no evil intentions toward the Govern- ment of Mexico._ “The police official then stepped in and said, ‘We’re gonna try these two men, and I think we can send them to jail for thirty years. One of them is sick. Looks as if he’s got a ruptured appendix, but we'll get that fixed up and then we'll try them.’ “Duke and I went to see these two pri- vate eyes, and they told us everything. They had come down on speculation with cameras, microphones, and the whole works, just to get the goods on Duke, just to catch him with some girl, just to get some pictures they could show in the divorce trial. “One guy, I forget which one, he ~ pleaded with Duke. The sick one. He said, ‘Please, if I’m operated on down here and something happens to me! Ive got three kids and a wife back in the States.

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amazing Helene Curtis hairdressing I’m their only means of support. Please give me a break.’ “TH tell you frankly,” Bond goes on. “I said to Wayne, ‘Duke, let these guys rot in jail. They knew what they were doing when they came down here. You're trying to make a picture for Warner Brothers. It’s tough enough without these guys. They upset you, me, everyone. To hell with ’em. Let ’em rot.’ “But you know Duke, a real soft-hearted, good-natured guy. He goes to the police officials. He goes to the governor, and he pleads for the release of these two private eyes who came down to Mexico specif- ically for the purpose of ruining him. I know it’s their job to get evidence. But there’s evidence and there’s evidence. “After these two jokers give a complete statement of their whole background (and this statement is part of the record in the possession of Duke’s attorney) Wayne springs the men. “Not only that, but he charters a private plane to fly them to Chihuahua, and then he sees that they’re flown back to L. A. “I was there. I witnessed the whole in- cident, this attempt to crucify one of the nicest men on earth. And that’s what hap- pened. With such tactics as these, you can get an idea what an unholy mess that divorce trial’s gonna be.” Frrom the other side, Chata’s side, also comes stories of private detectives. Wayne’s attorney, Frank Belcher, says, “At ho time has Wayne ever had his wife fol- lowed or shadowed by detectives.” Mrs. Wayne, however, insists that “I’ve been followed for months. I have posi- tive proof,” she states. “I’ve seen the cars outside the house, men in the cars. “Only a few weeks ago—well, I will tell you the whole story. I was riding with my cousin Charles—Carlos Baur, he is fifteen peels old. He is my cousin from Mexico ity. “We are riding along. I think it is Ven- tura Boulevard. I see in the mirror we are being followed. The same car is fol- lowing me for weeks. I jam on my breaks, and this car runs into me. “I get out and I run back to him. “You’ve hit my car,’ I say. ‘And you’ve been following me. I’m going to call the police.’ “This fellow, this detective, he says it’s part of his job. And I say, “What do you want to know?’ And he says, ‘Who is that young boy you’ve been riding with?’ And I say, ‘It’s Carlos. My cousin.’ He puts it down in his book, and he apologizes, and then he rides off. So I know very well I am being followed.” Why can’t this divorce be settled am- My hair laughs At summer sun Dry hair worries ? thave none! A touch of Suave “=~ Every day *Sparkles“dull hair Keeps frizz away! Gives hair that Healthy looking glow Keeps it soft And bright you know. 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Moreover, he has to support his four children by his first marriage; and they get twenty per cent of his earnings. A few months ago, in an attempt to award temporary alimony, pending the divorce trial, California Superior Court Judge William McKay ruled that Chata would have to get along on $1,100 a month until the final divorce settlement. Not long after this decision was handed down, Chata’s Cadillac was attached be- cause of failure to pay $2,367 in grocery bills. Mrs. Wayne, in this case, testified that she knew she owed the money, but that she had expected it would be taken care of in her separate maintenance set- tlement. She lost the case and was given ten days in which to raise the money or lose her car. She now rides around in a half-ton pick-up truck. What are the reasons behind the failure of the John and Esperanza Wayne mar- riage? Are the partners equally to blame? Is one more wrong than the other? Was Duke really physically cruel to Chata, as she charges? Was Chata’s extravagance, as Duke testified, responsible for much of the stress and strain, and for the final break? Adultery, alcoholism, sterility, extrava- gance, physical cruelty, mental cruelty, ag- gravation—all of these have been ad- vanced as possible reasons for the Wayne marital mess. This magazine, of course, takes no side in the case. On October 19, unless there is a cancel- lation, postponement, or private settle- ment—and lawyers for Chata and Duke say none of these are probable—the truth will emerge in the Domestic Relations Court. Of one thing you may be certain. In this particular divorce case, the truth will sizzle, and two fundamentally decent and respectable human beings will emerge from the trial hurt and bitter. END

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But I, too, am privileged to express myself. I can be just as angry as anyone else and can retaliate as fast as anyone else because I have my own life to live and to protect. Does that make sense?” Everybody ticks in his own way. Most of us can do with some regulating of the works. That’s why I had the experts check mine. As a result, I think ’m running a little smoother and my alarm is not so liable to pop off when there is no need for it. Nobody wants to hear it and I want to hear it least of all. The main corrective I required was oil—the oil of understand- ing; not enly of others, but of myself. W ™ makes a fellow become wound up too tightly is not always easily ex- plained. Very early in boyhood I began holding my fists in front of me and people started to call me cocky. Maybe it was because I was raised in one of the world’s most competitive spots—New York’s west side—where nobody needs any special rea- son to pop you in the eye, and I got popped. Or it might have been the sum of my par- ticular reaction as a child to the bitter realities of life. You go along with them, but not always as the same kid. I remem- ber, for instance, that it was years before I got over the shock of my grandmother’s funeral. She was a favorite of mine and died when I was only eight. When she was laid in her grave, when I saw the first shovelful of earth thrown on her coffin, I broke down and cried out in resentment. It seemed to me that someone I knew to be a wonderful person was being treated cruel- ly, while other people, not at all as nice as she, were escaping this punishment. I’m guessing at the psychological effect on me but it could be that I got badly twisted as a result of this, developing a feeling that not even being good (and to me my grandmother was the epitome of goodness) could save you from being a victim of life. And very probably (but still guessing) I could have felt that a fellow had best protect himself from this fate at all times. At least that’s the way I acted as I grew up—pugnaciously protective about myself. At home, on the street, in all my contacts with people, I was touchy, very conscious of my rights. When we bought a loaf of bread and it wasn’t fresh, I was the kind of kid who liked to go back to the grocery store with it and plank it down, saying, “This bread is stale!” No, sir, nobody was going to put anything over on me! (No- body, that is, but myself—by getting a little hipped on the subject!) I can look back now and put my finger on what was wrong with me—I was afraid of life. A lot of us are. But even worse than fear itself was the fear of having the fear known. This, too, is a common reac- tion, and among kids that’s exactly the kind of personality you need to get your- self booked for a steady series of scraps. Of course, I didn’t know it as fear, then. I accepted others’ appraisal of it and they called it temper. When on my grammar school graduation day I took a swing at a lad a lot bigger than I, I analyzed my ac- tion afterward as a case of my temper overcoming my brain. Most kid fights are over with quickly. This one turned into one of those long, terrible sessions that seemed to go on forever. Long after my “temper” had cooled off, when I was sick to death of the fight, yet wearily swinging away, I can remember thinking how stu- pid it all was. But I couldn’t stop. I had to keep punching. To quit, to be thought a quitter—that was worse than anything. | THINK that fight did me some good, though, mainly because it was a lesson, but also because I had held my own with a larger fellow and that gave me a measure of confidence in myself. I didn’t walk around with my hands up in front of me so much. Since I really had confidence, it wasn’t so necessary to show it by my de- meanor. It was there if I needed it. But it wasn’t all there. yet. I know that when the time came for me to go out with girls, as it must to all boys, scared or not, I played safe. I wasn’t a one-gal man for a long time. I was the kind who comes to the dances to look over the field and then leaves, unattached—the lone stag. I was as unsettled on what I wanted romantically, you might say, as I was in every other way. And when, eventually, I did pick out a girl whom I wanted to know better, she happened to be someone else’s—a football hero’s, no less. I had no car, no money, yet life was good to me and gave my confidence an- other boost. I learned that what you are comes through. What I was she liked, and she overlooked what I lacked in position or possessions. Now I know that if a girl doesn’t go out with you (or if you can’t impress a boy) you might as well not try to reach her with outside accoutrements or veneers. If you can’t reach through to each other for what you are, you can’t do it by pretending to be something better. The way we got along was quite a boost to my ego, but the cure was by no means complete. Many years later I was still fear- bound and swinging out, figuratively, when I should have kept my hands at my side. Even when my big chance came up in Hollywood I nearly scared myself out of it by behaving in a crude manner born of my fear of not making good. At MGM, I was asked by the dramatic coach, Lillian Burns, whether I wanted to do a light or heavy scene for my first test. I will never forget the look on her face at my reply: “Why ask me? What do they pay you for?” I actually cringe at the memory. One of the reasons I even mention it now is as a sort of additional apology to the lady. She came out of this little set-to a much big- ger person than I. She came to downtown Los Angeles to see me in the legitimate show, I Married An Angel, and decided I had possibilities despite my rudeness. She had told Billy Brady, head of the studio’s talent department, that person- ally I was “. . . a most revolting young man.” Later, she changed her opinion (I hope!) and we became very good friends. But because of fear I had been rude and had darn near frightened myself out of a movie career. I think that if I had enjoyed a stronger spiritual identification with my faith during my early days as an actor I would have been able to accept my later success — without having it affect me tempera- mentally as much as it did. I was nervous about the kind of roles offered me, the dramatic values involved and the theat- rical level of the productions. A man with trust in the ultimate meaning of his life is not inclined to be overwrought about its day-to-day phases. I am still con- cerned about the way I am represented to & |

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the public in my pictures but now I am much more aware of the problems of the directors and writers. W = I was making I Can Get It For You Wholesale, the director and I made a pact to meet each night in my dressing room for a talk, no matter what happened during the day’s shooting. Plenty happened. Some mornings and afternoons we couldn’t lay up a scene because of the arguments we had to go through first. But every evening the director and I got to- gether and worked out our differences with an honest discussion and a handshake that washed out all bitterness. We recognized that no matter what else was involved, we had a common cause—a good picture. People thought the production was going to pieces, but because we trusted each other’s hearts, if not each other’s ideas, we finished up with a good job. I should have had this sort of tolerance long before I got to Hollywood, but I didn’t. When I was bouncing around on Broad- way, trying to get a part in a show, and getting turned down, I used to get pretty bitter. Everyone said I was a good actor, but no one had anything suitable for me. Even when I got going a bit, and won top comment as a good comedian and dancer, I would hit against stone walls of opposi- tion. A good friend of mine was (and is) Jack Nonenbacher, manager of José Greco, leading male exponent of Spanish dancing. Enviously, I had mentioned to him some big names who were in Broadway shows. “I know I can do better than those fel- lows,” I said. “Why can’t I get a chance?” “Look, Dan,” he replied, “you'll be better off, eventually, if it isn’t too easy to get started. The very thing that holds you back, now, keeps you up there when you make good.” “But what do I do in the meantime?” “Have faith,” was the simple answer. “That’s what faith is for.” That’s what every man needs—a deep trust in himself and in his future. He needs it in everything he tackles, par- ticularly in the job of being a human being. I know faith can move a moun- tain; I moved one when I was in the Army. This particular “mountain” was a prob- lem handed to me when I attended Signal Corps Officers School at Fort Monmouth, N. J., in 1942. If I passed, I was to graduate and get my officer’s commission. If I didn’t, back to the ranks. I took one look at the problem and knew I was licked. It con- sisted of a map of the communications system of Berlin, and I, on the premise that the whole system had been wrecked, was to tell exactly how I would go about re- storing it to working order if I were to be the first American Signal Corps offi- cer to enter the city. I found just a small job in the com- munications map—a generator to provide power. Then I located a switchboard which could be run from this generator. And from this I progressed via small segments of the problem until the whole thing was done! 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7 pening. A year or so ago, while driving a new car, I was forced off the road and turned over. The thought in my head while I was in mid-air was, “Gee, this is going to scratch up the car!” Only recently, my horse failed on a high jump. Even as I knew I was falling, I was conscious only of the fact that I would probably rip my riding coat and it was the only one I had. What I have in mind is the sense of peril to your well-being that settles on you like a weight and very often makes you a hard man to live with. I HAVE no desire to become the biggest star in my profession. There may have been a time when I was dedicated to that proposition. I’m not sure. But I am cer- tain it forms no part of my thinking, now. I am more tolerant of people, now, be- cause I judge them by the basic level of their relationship to me, not by all their outward manifestations. I can forgive a friend any mistake if there is no mistake about his friendship for me. I am trying to enjoy each day as it comes along, and without causing others any harm. I am remembering, always, that if I want to antagonize someone, it is with- in my power to do so. And therefore it is - within my power to accomplish the re- ’ yverse—to win them over. This, I have ac- tually demonstrated to my satisfaction a number of times, and I have come to the conclusion that if I can win other people now. You may be one of the lucky ones. QUESTIONNAIRE: Which stories and features did you enjoy most in this issue? WRITE THE NUMBERS 1, 2, and 3 AT THE FAR LEFT of your first, second and third choices. Then let us know what stars you'd like to read about in future issues. [Li The Inside Story [] Louella Parsons' Good News [] Mike Connolly's Hollywood Report [LE] Movie Reviews LJ Sweet and Hot [1 The Big Guy Takes The Stand (John Wayne) [1 "lt Just Didn't Work" (Jeff Chandler) [] The Shocking Failure of Susan Hayward's Marriage [) “Hi, Honey—So Long, Dear’ (Charlton Heston) [] Pertect Balance (Marge and Gower Champion) [] Monroe and the Wild Life (Marilyn Monroe) [] Love Begins At 30 (Ava Gardner) [J Homesick But Happy (Alan Ladd) [J Anything Can Happen (Lana Turner-Lex Barker) [] Lanza Lives Big (Mario Lanza) [1 To All As To Myself (Dan Dailey) L] Is It Bad To Be Good? (Debbie Reynolds) ( Audrey Hepburn 5 [J It's Been A Good Life (Tyrone Power) LJ Rita's Forgotten Child (Rita Hayworth) [J The Kid From Philly (Eddie Fisher) [LD Hollywood Abroad easy money! Got a yen to see the world? Or get to know your own state better? Remember—big travel funds from small deposits grow—and MODERN SCREEN can get yours off to an easy start. All you have to do is read all the stories in this November issue and fill out the form below—carefully. Then send it to us right away. A crisp new one- dollar bill will go to each of the first 100 people we hear from. So get started right over to me, I can definitely win myself over to a better way of life. From what I can see, most of us are problems to ourselves. I have had to be honest and admit it to myself. But I’m working on it. That’s the most—and the least—a man can do. END monroe and the wild life (Continued from page 38) that Joe Di- Maggio planned to check in a day early. The dreamy look left her eyes. “Honest?” “Not honest,” he covered himself. “It’s just what I heard.” “Maybe you heard something I didn’t,” she said, anxiously. “No, I don’t think so..After all, you talk to him every day, don’t you?” “Every day,” she agreed, “when he can get a call through.” Then she added as an afterthought, “If for no other reason, we'll probably get married to cut down on the long distance telephone expense.” Marilyn grinned as though she had a - secret all her own. That secret may be that she and Joe are already married. Nobody could swear to that, although Louella Parsons may confirm it one day in an ex- clusive scoop. It is safe to say, though, that no girl’s heart ever belonged as thor- oughly to any man as Marilyn’s does to Joe. If they have some complications, they have already been settled, spiritually and Which of the stories did you like least? What 3 MALE stars would you like to read about in future issues? List them lI, 2, 3, in order of preference. What FEMALE stars would you like to read about in future issues? What MALE star do you like least? What FEMALE star do you like least? Do you eat candy at the movies? Miy) inaimeniisyseeeenaeren Sdoddsnuogouves | Cin. - yrs. old. ADDRESS TO: POLL DEPT., MODERN SCREEN, BOX 125. MURRAY HILL STATION, NEW YORK 16, N. Y. mentally. — “What's to be so nervous asked her as they discussed Joe’s arrival. “Everybody has been telling me how re- laxed you are.” “Td be relaxed,” she flashed, “if Joe were here.” An assistant director on the set of River Of No Return called her, and she walked toward the camera with that deliberate, slouchy gait that has became so famous. If she had been Betty Grable or Jane Rus- sell, somebody would have whistled. But they wouldn’t whistle at Marilyn. The easygoing fun and harmless wolf passes accorded a glamorous star aren’t tossed her way. Because, clearly, she is deeply in love and would resent any of the rough fun that passes for nothing when a star has been married a long time. Then it’s a mark of respect. Now, Marilyn behaves like a bride, and the studio crew treats her like one. ae HIS was a scene in which Rory Calhoun and Marilyn were caught on a raft run- ning wild down the churning Athabasca River. Bob Mitchum is supposed to toss them a rope, r’ar back on his steed and pull them to shore. When Marilyn walked past Bob, for just a moment he started to regis- ter some overt, masculine appreciation. He didn’t. He never even dropped a lazy eye- lid in her direction, and Mitch usually does that with every female in the east. It took an hour to go through the scene. On one occasion, Marilyn slipped into the river. Casually, Bob pulled her out. It was a little thing, but big enough to make headlines in the next day’s newspapers. That night, back at the location lodging, Marilyn chatted for a few minutes after dinner. “Coming over to the tavern, tonight?” someone asked. “No, thanks,” she replied. “I've got some work to do.” Now, almost every other member of the cast was there that night, and to be friend- ly, Marilyn would normally have dropped in. Everybody knew she was waiting to hear from Joe. It isn’t that Marilyn isn’t a trouper, or couldn’t be—it’s just that building a career which will make up for all that flamboyant, early publicity is the important thing with her, just now. The career—and Joe. At five o’clock the next morning, the camp was up and roaring in order to catch the private train which had to leave at 6:30 to reach the location scene in time for early shooting. Everyone was aboard on time, but Marilyn. She showed up al- most fifteen minutes later. If her fellow workers wanted to complain, they didn’t. There were no wisecracks. Apparently, everyone knows that Marilyn is living in a world of her own. At times, she snaps out of it, though, and does extra favors for people—as she did for the engineer and the Canadian Pacific Railway people who wanted her to pose with their train. She made like a switchman, a brakeman and a conductor. There’s something new with Marilyn. _ Instead of her short haircut, she showed up with golden strands hanging twenty inches down her back. The visitor ex- claimed in amazement, “Where did you get that hair?” “Makeup department, of course,” she replied. “They put it on for me, every day, because I have to wear my hair with a bun in the back and there’s not enough of it. Now I like it long, so at the end of the day I just let it down and parade around as if it were my own. When I get some time off between pictures I’m going to sit around and grow my own.” She looked at him gravely to see if he understood that she was kidding. 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sidered dumb or accidental by some lis- teners, razor blade wit, by others. Meee doesn’t appear to be overly en- thusiastic about the rugged life in the north woods. After all, she has just settled . down in a magnificent little apartment on Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills, and it has all the comforts that she never has known before. She’s hardly the type whose idea of fun is getting up for a before-dawn breakfast ride, but she did fool the boys when they asked her to pose with a horse. The horse took one look at her and plain- ly fell in love. They nuzzled each other for fifteen minutes, to the delight of all cam- eras present. _ In a way, Marilyn is a little pathetic. She’s so darned pretty and sexy-looking that everyone expects her to be stupid in the bargain. She isn’t. She obviously fol- lows every direction and suggestion made by her coach, Natasha. For two days I watched for director Otto Preminger to blow his top. He is a shrewd, always fair, but sometimes extremely sarcastic vet- eran. On some takes it was obvious that he wasn't getting things his way. But he pa- tiently did the scenes until he was satis- fied. It’s problematical whether the finished version belongs to him or to Natasha, to whom Marilyn is so intensely loyal. That’s the word—loyal. That’s the way Marilyn Monroe is to Joe DiMaggio, too. She is like the bride waiting for her new husband to come home, behaving as though no matter what his excuse for being late, it’s all right with her. But in this case, “the bride” is always working late, and she isn’t going to let anyone whisper to Joe one legitimate word of real or imaginary misbehavior on her part. She’s loyal and in love, and she doesn’t care who knows it. END 2 it just didn’t work (Continued from page 31) into a series of bickerings, clashes, and almost constant domestic quarrels. Meyer Mishkin rapped on the hotel door and entered. Meyer is Jeff’s agent. He hero-worships Jeff, his most profitable cli- ent, and spends most of his working day in an effort to convince the world that Chan- dler is the kindest, greatest, most talented actor on earth. — “Here is a for instance,’ Meyer will ex- plain to a reporter, “about Jeff’s versatility. You think he can only act? You’re wrong. Did you hear him with Peggy Lee on the radio? Nothing but sensational. She asked him to come back again. Not as an actor, as a singer. Chandler is also a singer, a great voice. He was in Chicago recently, plug- ging his picture. Vic Damone was on the stage. He called Jeff up. They sang a duet and brought the house down. Now they want Jeff to sign a recording contract. Make records. I’m telling you. The guy is sensational.” Meyer Mishkin, the cheer leader, is alsoa perceptive man. When he entered the room, he knew at once that Jeff was unhappy. “Just spoke to Marge,” Chandler said. He shook his head, and by that one movement, Meyer understood that between Jeff and Marjorie it was all over. T# following morning, the news came out of Hollywoed. Mr.. and Mrs. Jeff Chandler had decided to call it quits. The studio issued the brief announcement. The truth, of course, is that Jeff and Marjorie decided to separate before he left “for New York, but no one else knew about it. While Jeff was on tour, he phoned Marge every night to ask about the children. In his heart, he hoped that he might effect a reconciliation. When announcement of the Chandlers’ impending divorce was made in Hollywood, reporters, remembering that Mrs. Chandler two years before had called off divorce pro- ceedings against her husband, wondered if she might not do the same thing again. “This isn’t just a separation,” Jeff’s wife explained. “I think we’ve had it. Jeff has moved to an apartment in Westwood, and Tm here in the house with the children. “What caused the break? Another woman? No, nothing like that. Nothing like that, at all. Just a bunch of little things. Incompatibility covers it. It’s been two years this month since we reconciled. We tried. We really did. Very hard. Call it dif- ferences in personality, temperament, out- looks. We just can’t see eye-to-eye on the things that count. “Jeff is a wonderful man, and we’re both adjusting to the situation. No, I haven’t got a lawyer yet. The same lawyer I used last time? I don’t know. We’re going about this whole thing very slowly. There’s always time for a divorce. He’s in no big hurry to get one and neither am I. “Will it be one of those Nevada quickies? I don’t think so. In fact, I’m sure it won't. We'll get the divorce in California.” Marjorie Hoshelle Chandler was under contract to Warner Brothers long before her husband first set foot on a sound stage. She was asked if she contemplated a re- newal of her career. “I think so,” she said. “I’m the kind of girl who needs to be busy. I like to have a lot to do. With my children and any jobs I can pick up, I should keep occupied.” “When you file for a divorce,” a reporter asked, “what will the grounds be?” Marjorie thought for a moment. “I guess it'll have to be one of those mental cruelty things.” NEW smear- Resistant TANGEE lipstick STAYS PUT | amt, -- Stays Beautiful! Only new Tangee contains the miracle ingre- dient—Permachrome! This means that Tangee is really smear-resistant—really STAYS PUT! But—more than that—new Tangee keeps fips fresh, moist-looking because it’s extra-rich in lanolin—base of the costliest cosmetic creams. No harsh chemicals to dry or irritate your lips. So insist on new smear-resistant Tangee. 9 come- hither, stay-with-you shades—from the most pleasing Pinks to the most dramatic Reds. No matter how much you pay, you cannot buy a finer lipstick than Tangee. NEW COLOR-TRUE LIPSTICK WITH PERMACHROME— EXTRA-RICH IN LANOLIN ‘81

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'“You mean,” the reporter said, “that no one is going to give out with the real rea-_ sons.” “Tt has been very nice speaking to you,” Mrs. Chandler said. W == Jeff was approached and asked to comment on the divorce, he shrugged his broad shoulders. “What can I say?” he asked. “It just didn’t work out.” But there are others friends and acquaintances of the Chandlers, who have much to say. One radio actor, for example, who has known the Chandlers ever since Jeff got his start on the Our Miss Brooks show, says, “I think it’s a case of jealousy, pure and simple. Two acting careers in one fam- ily never work. Marge used to be much bigger than Jeff. So what happens? She becomes the wife and mother and he be- comes the star and the celebrity. Uncon- sciously, she resents that.” “Look,” an actress points out, “I know women, and I understand what makes them tick. Marge Chandler is the kind of girl who dies a thousand deaths every time Jeff hits the road. “Marge Chandler has been in show busi- ness a long time. She’s nobody’s fool. She knows all the angles. She has friends. She hears what Jeff is doing wherever he is. She knows that girls go nuts over her guy. My feeling is that the minute she lost sight of Jeff, she began to worry. “Mind you, I’m not saying this is exactly what happened between Marge and Jefi. I’m just suggesting the possibility based on my own analysis of the situation.” N ALL fairness to Mrs. Chandler, it must be pointed out that when a man and wife separate in Hollywood, the person who is under contract to a studio usually receives the better press. Studios must protect their investments and cannot afford to have their stars subjected to close scru- tiny. ; This, for example, is what happened with Shirley Temple and John Agar. To this day, Agar has never given his version of their marriage and divorce. “I would never do anything to hurt Shirley,” he said. Marjorie Chandler feels the same way about Jeff, which is why, in the interest of fair play, it is equitable to hear from a di- rector who believes that in every marital failure, blame may be attributed to both parties. c “T like Jeff,” this director points out, “and as actors go, he’s a pretty nice guy. He’s level-headed. He has both feet on the ground, and he has a good mind. But let’s face it. He has changed. He has arrived. “The guy has confidence in himself. He . knows he’s a star. Whatever humility he once had—well, it’s gone. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s inevitable. Same thing has happened to a lot of kids who were born poor. They may deny it, but money makes a lot of difference to them. It intro- duces them to a new kind of life. Humility is not one of its large components. “Jeff got himself a wonderful agent in Meyer Mishkin. What I’m waiting for is the day that Meyer goes up to Jeff and in all honesty says, ‘Jeff, you know that last performance you gave? Well, it wasn’t great.’ I'm waiting for that sort of objec- tive appraisal. Idolatry is what most actors love and what they receive from the subordinates around them. Especially Jeff! He may step out of line once or twice, but who is going to tell him? Well, I think Marge told him and told him in candor and honor and objectivity. And I think his van- ity was hurt. That’s how quarrels start, and sometimes they never stop. “Also—and this is very important—there comes a point in a woman’s life when she realizes that her husband no longer needs 82 her advice. He’s a big shot. He has got it in Hollywood, - PPS Ne made. His stardom is = m here on in, if necessary, he can go it alone. There was a time when Jeff needed his wife’s advice, her encouragement, the benefit of her experience. That’s no longer true, and Marge knows it. The realization must hurt. “Marriage is very tough for a career woman. She is torn by two instincts, the maternal one and the professional one. She wants fame, and still, she wants to take care of her children, to supervise their growing up. It’s very tough. “T’ve been very long-winded about it, I know. But I just want to be sure that you don’t make Marge out to be all wrong and Jeff to be completely right. There is always that temptation when you write about a movie star. We forget that movie stars are also made of flesh and blood and have weaknesses as well as virtues.” Now, Jeff Chandler would be the first to | SAW IT HAPPEN When Rosemary Clooney came back for a visit to her hometown of Maysville, Ken- tucky, we were standing on a wall watching her dedicate a_ street in her name. Be- fore she broke the bottle of cham- pagne she rolled up the sleeves of her mink coat. Everyone wondered at this, but we understood when she said, “It took a long time and.hard work for this coat.” Libby Yarber ' Marsha Vanlandingham . Maysville, Kentucky admit that. I remember not too long ago when he was discussing his first break with Marge. “A funny thing,” he said, “but success can be an influence in any separa- tion. When you’re very poor you don’t have enough time to analyze and figure out why you're not ecstatically happy all the time. Youre too busy making a living. When you do make a few bucks, you have - some leisure to stand back and evaluate and criticize. One of my main troubles in my marriage was my moodiness. When something bothered me, I didn’t speak out; I clammed up.” HaT hurts him most about the failure of this, his first marriage, is the effect it will have upon his children. Both he and Marge are children of divorced parents. Jeff's youth, as a matter of fact, is some- thing he has almost succeeded in blocking out of his consciousness. It was tragic, jammed with heartache, and he hates to think about it, much less to talk about it. So more than anything else, he wants his two little girls to enjoy a normal childhood. If there should be another reconciliation, the welfare of his daughters would be his primary motivation. One of Jeff’s most acute little sorrows lies in the fact that he was separated from Marge and away from home when his daughter, Dana, began to mutter her first few words. It was Dana, too, who didn’t recognize her daddy in 1951, when he landed at Los Angeles In- ‘ternational Airport. Marge and Jeff had decided on a reconciliation over the long distanee phone. When Chandler pulled in from New York, Marge and the two girls were on hand to greet him. Only Dana had to be told who her daddy was. A sensitive man, Jeff remembers all this with poignancy and pain. He remembers the glowing pride and the wonderful hope when, seven years ago, he and Marge were price Hollywood chronically d n TS. R: % yt w, in E Jeff had been out of the Marge married him becaus = lov 4 and for no other reason. They spent their — ; honeymoon in a motel out in North Holly- wood. It was a small motel off Ventura — Boulevard. No scenery. No de luxe accom- modations. Only the smell of gasoline and — the roaring of the trucks bound north for — San Fernando. But they cherished every — minute of it, and when it was over, they — -moved into a one-room apartment in Hol- — lywood. No kitchen. One Murphy bed. A — small hotplate. Seventy dollars a month © and plenty cf love. : The early years were the good years, so good, in fact, that the Chandlers were re- married in Glendale, a second ceremony just in case there had been some legal — hitch in the first. And then there was the . little house they bought on Jeff’s G.I. Loan, and the arrival of little Jamie, and Jeff’s -contract at Universal and another deal at 20th Century-Fox. It all seemed too good to last. And it didn’t. : After five years and two daughters there was a separation. It lasted seven months, and in that time Jeff learned that he was in demand with the ladies. It was very flat-_ tering to have many of the biggest names — in the business make a play for him. But as he says, “I found it was no substitute for marriage.” 3 ; So he called Marge from the east, and they both agreed to let bygones be bygones. Marge had bought a new home, and she in- troduced Jeff to the domestic staff. He felt a little awkward at first, especially with his new daughter, Dana, but gradually he got used to it. After three months, it seemed to all of the Chandlers that Jeff had never been away and they were very happy. © HEN Chandler’s contract was renewed by Universal at a large increase. The studio rushed him into one picture after another. His fan mail tripled. He began to dream up a Jeff Chandler comic book. De- mands for benefit appearances grew geo- metrically. ; Jeff decided to branch out. He began to take singing lessons. And his marriage be- — gan to crumble. One columnist said it was because he worked too hard. Another ex- pressed the opinion that Jeff's agent who — was also Marge’s, should spend less time praising Jeff and more time finding jobs ~ for Marge. Other bystanders declared that — Marge was jealous, Jeff was jealous, Marge — was ambitious, Jeff was flirting, Marge was — an extrovert, Jeff was an introvert, Marge — was retrogressing, Jeff was developing, Marge was frustrated, Jeff was neurotic, and on and on ad nauseum. ; Fe Quarrels at the Chandler household be- — came incessant and all of the Chandlers _ were unhappy. One night Marge and Jeff — decided it was senseless to continue. Per- — haps they were mismated. Whatever it was, their unhappiness was certain to tell even-— tually on their children. This, neither of them wanted. aged Secretly, Jeff hoped to bring off another ~ reconciliation via long distance telephone. In New York, just before he returned the coast to do Yankee Pasha, he learned _ that he hadn’t a chance. The die was cast — and the announcement was made. Fortunately, Jeff and Marge are mature, — intelligent adults who decline to lead their _ private lives in public. As a result their marital difficulties have never inspired — fault-finding, recrimination, or name-call-— ing. ; It is sorrow enough for both of them to realize that after seven years their mar- riage will end in a divorce court. This high price to pay for success, but eat

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Tes ea Sy ae ae = oe ‘ho ney—so long, dear” (Continued from page 35) Lydia Heston can rattle off half a hundred upsetting do- _ Mestic contretemps like those, brewed by ‘the zig-zag, water spider pattern on their ten years of hectic, but still happy, mar- ried life. There was the time for example, when Lydia, after a year-and-a-half’s sep- aration from her Charlie, came back from a Chicago run with Detective Story—all set for a few cozy months of married life in Manhattan. When she boarded the train, she was sure Chuck would be still safely involved in his tv work. But when he met her in Grand Central Station he was lugging a suitcase. “Well!” she gasped, “where are you going?” _ “Hollywood! Got a contract at Para- mount.” It was the first she’d heard about that. What’s more, his west-bound train left in exactly one hour—so the long antici- pated home life turned out to be a couple of stools at a coffee shop while crowds of people scuffed suitcases around their toes, redeaps dashed in and out and the clock hands circled ominously. About the time you read this, too, the big, blond bruiser will be giving a hasty bear hug to his cute life’s companion and dropping her off a flight from Bermuda in Chicago before he hustles back west to finish High Andes in Hollywood, while - Lydia opens on a Windy City stage in The Seven Year Itch. For all she knows, the run might be seven days, seven weeks, seven months or seven years—but the itch to get back together will still be there, as indeed it has been ever since the Hestons swore their hurry-up marriage vows back in 1944—and two weeks later lost each other for two long years via Air Force eee = duty ihe BT A — a Sa a Rg gS es in the Aleutians for Chuck. Their “Hi, Honey—So long, Dear” domestic pat- tern has been more or less the same ever since, and seems a good bet to continue. Meanwhile, they’ve got two separate sets of furniture on two coasts, two Packards parked 3000 miles apart, two complete wardrobes, right down to lipstick and shaving kits, two maids who’ve never seen each other, and sets of unacquainted friends in the three first cities of the land. Now, all this sounds like a sure-fire formula for domestic disaster. It’s cer- tainly true that the Hestons have had the odds stacked against their married life. “Goodnight” is too often relayed over tele- phone wires, and on at least one anniver- sary, Chuck and Lydia actually passed each other in mid-air, headed in different directions. It’s true, too, as previously hinted, that there are moments of long distance stress and strain, misunderstand- ings, and mixups brought about by their stop-and-go home lives. Not long ago, Chuck invited forty-five people to a gala dinner completely unknown to Lydia, then breezed off east on some career summons. She was amply paid back for the day she hopped away from New York, leaving him to prepare food and drink for the eighty- five guests set to swarm into their flat. But none of these harassments seem to have altered the firm status of a happy union which one of their best friends, Jan Sterling, calls, “so perfect it’s a little em- barrassing.” There’s only one word to ex- plain it—love—but it’s two kinds of love, love for each other and love for the thing that’s terribly important to them both— acting. That might sound a little on the serious side, considering the subjects—a decep- tively Duley faced girl who’s as full of beans as a Boston belle and a super- ly a charged husky whom one critic recently described as “A 3-D Mister Coffeenerves.” Chuck and Lydia Heston maintain a life of love on the run without wilting in the race because all their lives they’ve never — been in love with anyone in the world but each other. And all their lives they’ve never really wanted to do anything else but act. ¢ Seventeen-year-old _ Charlton Carter Heston first met Lydia Clarke, or rather stared boorishly at the back of her pretty neck, in a drama class at Northwestern University. He had never had a date in his life. “And, to tell the truth,” says Lydia, “he looked it.” She got this impression when she turned the neck in surprise at a statement Chuck made regarding a play they had studied, and about which the in- structor asked for critical comment. The voice back of her boomed, “It’s skeletal,” as Lydia remembers, and when she swiv- elled around to see just who came up with that, she thought, “Brother, so are you!” Charlton had gone to a one-room school in the backwoods of the Michigan peninsula where the ink froze in the ink- wells. That’s where he was born and spent his boyhood. It’s a boyhood that Chuck Heston still looks back on today with a fond longing tugged by strong family roots. The 1300 acres and the hunting lodge, that he recently bought for a get- away is part of a whole wild county which his speculator grandpa bought up for taxes years ago. Russell Lake, on his place, is named after Chuck’s dad. As a kid in this wilderness, Charlton (that’s his mother’s maiden name) had roamed happily around by himself, lug- ging a string of rusty traps, for muskrat and beaver. 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Chuck was a lone wolf, hunting his romance in adventure books, then going out to his ‘woodsy hiding spots and pretending to be every character in the tattered volumes. “There’s no doubt in my mind,” Chuck says, “that my acting kick started in those days. I was acting all the time. I never did anything else.” Once, spurred by an adventure tale, he wrapped up a book and an apple inside a shirt, tied it on a stick for bindle and set out to see the world. Way down the road, about dusk, his father met him, coming home from work. : “Where do you think you're going, Son?” he inquired. “Tm running away,” stated Chuck. “Well, goodbye,” said his dad, passing calmly on. That wasn’t the way Chuck’s script was written. He had envisioned his parents in tragic tears. He turned, ran and caught up and was glad he had when the owls started to hoot. Bo Chuck and Lydia had won schol- arships to Northwestern University. She wasn’t as lost in the clouds as Chuck, and Lydia Clarke arrived in Evanston a much smoother article all around. Un- doubtedly, this accounts for her reaction to Chuck after she had given in to his awkward advances and granted a date. Lydia scribbled home to her mother: “I’ve just gone out with the most uncivilized, crude and rude, wildly untidy, impossible man on the campus!” With that impression, naturally Charl- ton Heston’s first and only dream girl gave him a pretty hard time, or if you prefer Chuck’s description, she was “interestingly combative.” When he pestered this con- trary cutie with reckless, absurd proposals she would yawn, “I’m just not interested in getting married.” “Well,” he’d press, “if you ever did get married, do you think you’d be interested in marrying somebody like me?” “Not possibly!” she’d dust him off, but in the end Chuck outhammed her. At that time, he was running the night elevator in a swank North Shore apart- ment house, inhabited mainly by rich, re- tired tenants. You could tell just about when they'd go out and when they'd come in. There were long, idle hours when Chuck could stalk out of his cage and emote to the overstuffed furniture in the lobby. Sometimes a querulous guest would ring to ask if somebody was being mur- dered, but usually it worked out fine. At Christmas, too, there was a jackpot of tips which added up to the magnificent sum of $75 and gave Chuck his chance to make an impression on his reluctant lady love. He took the $75, rented a swank suit of tails, top hat and boiled shirt. Then he called up Lydia at *the campus cafeteria where she worked. She almost dropped a stack of plates when he invited her to do the town. “We'll dress, of course, white tie and all that” she actually heard this un- tamed bumpkin declare. They went to the Pump Room at the Ambassador East—Chicago’s finest—and even though they rolled down and back on the bus it was pretty high style. The awkward moment of the evening came when the captain steered the elegant revel- ers right past the table of a resident of his building who had unwittingly contributed a ten-dollar tip to this spree and was stunned speechless to see his elevator boy sweep by — in full dress and wave a chummy “Hello!” Looking back, Lydia thinks it was then and there that she knew resistance to t re s ; wih Sony , ¥) “i Chuck was no longer possible. But she didn’t let him know that, of course. In fact, Charlton Heston was quite sur- prised when a telegram from Miss Lydia Clarke arrived. It stated rather primly and right out of the blue, “I have decided to accept your proposal.” Chuck had been canned from his hotel job, nut had been picked right up by the Army Air Corps and was in basic training at’ Greensboro, North Carolina. Lydia had spring vacation ~ coming up. They were married on St. Pat- rick’s Day in Greensboro when Chuck ~ promoted a pass from the sarge by pre- tending he was an Irishman. Being a pair of true artistes, they wandered around town until they spied just the right setting —a church with a white cherry tree blooming in front. They went in and even though it was almost six o'clock, they managed to do it up right. "feet So—you can see that romance and act- ing have been twisted together like sweet- peas on a trellis ever since Charlton Heston and his Lydia spotted each other— although usually the peas themselves have been in widely scattered pods. In fact, on Chuck’s brief leave the newlyweds took in a theatre performance—and the usher placed them in separate seats! “We should have known then how things were going to be,” Chuck grins. Pretty soon he found out for sure. In a matter of days, the groom was at Port Heiden, in the clammy Aleu- tians, hunched over a radio transmitter, and the bride was back at Northwestern. When the conquering hero came back he had never looked better in his life. “He weighed 225 pounds,” remembers Lydia. “T thought, this is war?” It was peace. And, of course, peace to Mister and Missus C. C. Heston meant launching a couple of green acting careers —a project guaranteed to reduce over- stuffed figures. In the first year, Chuck re- gained his Lincolnesque look with no ef- fort at all. He settled with his bride in a shabby furnished room in Chicago. They stored their food in a foot locker, cooked on a hot plate and washed dishes in the bathroom basin. The family budget for feasting was $6 a week. In New York they lived m a railroad flat in rough, dockside, Hell’s Kitchen. It cost $30 a month and it meant sleeping on a bed Chuck had hammered. to- gether from a few boards. The Hestons look back from these affluent years on those hungry ones with special tenderness. Until a few months ago, they sentimentally kept the Hell’s Kitchen flat as their eas- tern hangout. They would have it yet, if the city» hadn’t condemned the building. The reason is simple. They were to- gether then. The clicking sound in their two careers was also the snapping of their poor, but permanent, home ties. Chuck, for instance, blew off alone to Boston for his first big break in The Leaf And The Bough. When Lydia’s turn came with Detective Story, it was back to Chicago for her, with most chanees to see her hus- band coming via a Tv set in her dressing room. Then there was Hollywood for one, New York for the other. Separation has been the price of their success. “Tt would be silly to say we like it that way,” Chuck will tell you honestly. “But,” he asks just as earnestly, “what can we do?” One thing the Hestons could do—if they were the types—would be settle down cozily in Hollywood and never move. Ever since The Greatest Show On Earth, Charlton Heston hasn’t had to beg for screen jobs. He’s the heroic toughie type who’s box- office bait as his jobs in The Savage, Pony Express, Ruby Gentry, The President's Lady, Naked Jungle and others have proved. Lydia did perfectly all right, too, — a in Atomic City and Scalpel with Chuck. Both are tailor-made for Hollywood's tv radio and the west coast stage stops z its

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_which are multiplying season by season. Unfortunately, that’s not the antidote for their particular acting bugs—as virulent as ever, after all these years. Chuck’s goal is to play Macbeth better than anybody has ever played it. Already, he has done some pretty terrific perform- ances of it, the last being this summer in an ancient British fort hanging over the surf in Bermuda. By now, Chuck and Lydia Heston are conditioned to settle down like tabby cats wherever they are. But anywhere at all Chuck is in levis or shorts and a T-shirt the minute he slings his bags to the floor. Except for Charlton’s sketching kit, a couple of cameras and the necessities of a peripatetic existence, the Hestons travel light—and they almost live as light as they travel. Long ago, they learned that col- lecting plunder is just a headache when you're hotfooting around. Luckily, neither is interested in rich trappings or fine feathers. It took Lydia years to talk her husband into investing in two suits. He had a collection of antique ties, hoarded since college days, and as rag-tag as kite tails, which she spirited to their incinera- tor, replacing the shabby lot with seven- teen bright new ones. It almost caused a rift in the family. Probably the only other time Chuck got as riled at his wife was when he impulsively bought her an ele- gant mink stole as a surprise. But when she opened the fancy box Lydia popped his balloon. “Why, it’s a mink stole!” she exclaimed. “I don’t need a mink stole. Wherever would I wear one? Take it back.” Both Chuck and Lydia are used to sepa- ration rumors and don’t get too upset, knowing what the score is with themselves and what they’re in for as movie celebri- ties. They know that as long as they keep hopping here and there, rift rumors are an occupational hazard. But the lack of a solid homelife, as the years tick by, worries them a lot more. For one thing, there’s the matter of a family. “Sure, we want kids,” Chuck will boom from under a wrinkled brow, “but not in a suitcase.” The only live dependent they've owned was their Great Dane, Caesar, whom they parked with Chuck’s dad as they rambled around. The big pup died when he was only four. “Ulcers,” explained the veter- inarian. “Purely from loneliness for you two.” So thoughts of a family give them real pause. In fact, the only way Chuck Heston has figured out to carry én the line is to re- vert to his rustic beginnings, hole in on the shores of Russell Lake and commute to Hollywood and all directions by rocket plane. The Michigan place is paid for. There’s plenty of wood for the fire- places and the big eight-room lodge could take care of all comers. “Snows are deep in the winter,” muses Charlton Heston at that pipe dream, “and we could just hibernate—like the bears. 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It's much safer for an American actor in Europe to remain married, at least technically. aks GENE TIERNEY is wearing a five-carat engagement ring from Aly Khan who’ is being most faithful to her. When Aly was in New York several weeks — ago selling some of his father's horses at Saratoga, the only woman he had anything to do with was his ex-wife Rita Hayworth, who refused to we let him take their daughter, Yasmin, overseas for a visit. It has been rumored in Paris that Aly's father does not approve of his son's companionship with Gene Tierney. This isn't true. Knowing Aly, he feels that only a European wife might be able to tolerate his son's behavior as a husband. Gene, once married — to an Italian dress designer, feels she is well-qualified to get along um Aly Khan who is half-Italian. Facing ts ic cnt CLARK GABLE is no longer making a secret of his love affair with Susanne Dadolle d'Abadie. They're seen all over Paris together and make no eff-rt to avoid — publicity. 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shoe PS aE es oe (Continued from page 33) My mind went back many years to that time when Susan was pregnant with her twins. She and Jess had a battle royal in front of the Tom May home, following a party. It was a secret she had asked me to keep, and I had. At that time, as now, she had come to see me; but then she had been forgiving of Jess. She said she was not going to divorce him. “Jess is miserably unhappy,” she had said. “Only I know how miserable. His work has gone against him; there don’t seem to be any parts for him in pictures. _ I don’t know why; he’s really a good actor. “WViaybe being my husband, sort of a Mr. Susan Hayward, has affected his career. If that’s true, I am sorry. The least I can be is understanding. “T don’t believe in divorce. I’m going to fight to keep our marriage together, not only for ourselves, but for the babies we expect. I took a vow when we were mar- ried—for better, for worse—and I’m stick- ing to Jess. I hope for the better from here on in.” I was pleased, after the twin boys were born, that things really seemed much bet- ter between Jess and Susan. In the early years of their nine-year marriage, Susan would often see the question in my eyes and she would always assure me, “Things are all right, Louella. Honest!” Of course, the very big obstacle of Jess’ not working was still a large factor and a problem. Always it was Susan who com- forted him and sympathized, although it became increasingly difficult, for her own career was zooming. She was one of the most important stars on the 20th lot and was being given outstanding pictures and fine roles. Now the end was here, and there was no more strength in Susan to keep trying. H® lovely red hair was moist against her forehead as she sat talking with me across a table in my playroom. I had ordered coffee, and she sipped it gratefully. This girl, I realized, was exhausted, not only physically, after the beating she’d Sane but emotionally and spiritually as well. Her voice was calmer as she said, “I don’t have to tell you that Jess has never contributed any money to my support or to the support of Timothy and Gregory. You know all about that. “And I know you realize that I was deeply sympathetic with him, at first. I be- lieved him when he said he was an actor and couldn’t do anything else. But there must come an end to the unnatural way of living in which the woman is the wage earner and the man sits home with the children. “The little boys couldn’t understand why I got up early every morning and went to work and Daddy stayed home. It was not that way in the homes of the children they played with. Children can be cruel. I’m sure their playmates often taunted Greg and Timmy about their father’s going to the market and driving them to school, when in their homes it vas the mother who did these tasks. “A mother ean give her children love and tenderness, but she cannot set the example of a father, a leader—a man who is head of his home. Boys need to respect their fathers, and Jess was letting things slide to the point where he didn’t even fe to get work—as an actor or anything else. “We began to quarrel about this more and more bitterly. Jess would be angry. But this last time it was blind rage. “I was not only terrified when I saw at: ~ ed i i Y ing failure of susan hayward’s marriage Jess’ fury, but I realized he was trying to ruin my face—the very means by which I earn my living. “Well, I’ve already told you what hap- pened: the nightmarish scene at the swimming pool, the police. Then I sneaked away. I had to be by myself for a few days. I knew they were saying I was hiding because of a black eye, but I didn’t care. The end has finally come, Louella. There is no turning back.” And what a heartbreaking ending, I thought, to the love story of the gallant, spirited, redheaded little Susie, who was born Edith Marriner in Brooklyn and who came to Hollywood as one of the original contestants for the role Vivien Leigh played in Gone With The Wind. Of course she did not get the role, but there was to be much glory and success for Susie in Hollywood. Not at first, how- ever. She almost died out as a perennial ingénue and milktoast heroine in many Paramount pictures. ust about that time, I asked Susan to join some other young starlets for a Hollywood stage act I was going to take on tour for eight weeks, playing all the key cities. She was delighted to join Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, June Preisser, Arleen Whelan and Joy Hodges, and she was her cute, completely honest self when she told me right to my face that she thought being associated with me “will help my career”. You come to know people well when you travel with them, and I was surprised that with all of Susan’s luscious, sexy beauty that she was at heart a real Miss Prim, easily shocked by the backstage “stories”, even when they were mild. And her feelings were so easily hurt she dis- “ solved into tears if anyone even looked at her crossly. She seldom went out, even when we hit such big towns as Philadelphia and New York. If she did go, it was usually with a relative or friend from Brooklyn. She was an ultra moral and conventional little thing, a quality which endeared her to me fully as much as her loveliness and sweetness. Many years have passed since then. I brought myself back to the present and to the heartbroken girl who-had once again come to me with her troubles. She said, “My reputation is highly valu- able to me, or I would not be telling these things against the man I have loved for sO many years. “But I am shocked to my soul about some of the terrible stories being circulated about why we separated. What I have told you is the truth. “Since I first met Jess there has never been any other man for me, and I really believe there has never been any other woman in his life.” A little sigh escaped Susan; she leaned back against the wall and closed her eyes as though she were consciously remem- bering Jess as he was when they first met and fell in love. Ge had known Jess when they were both on the Paramount lot, he playing young leads just about as important and’ lasting as Susie’s ingénue parts. 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They continued their simple manner of life, invested their money and continued to keep abreast in their careers. Then, grad- ually, so gradually that it was hardly im- portant—Susan began to forge ahead. Suc- cess wasn’t a blinding thing, in her case. It came, picture by picture, year by year, until today she is one of the most important stars on the 20th lot. And, picture by picture, year by year, until there were few and then no offers, Jess’ career moved backward. A resentment he must really have felt against fate and himself, Jess began to take out on Susan. They fought frequent- ly and he became very unreasonable about how she spent her money. “But even then,” went on Susan, “there were many wonderful times of happiness between us, particularly after the boys were born. “Jess can be so charming. He is hand- some and young and no one has insisted louder than I that he has real ability as an actor. “Recently, he has been getting some offers. I hope they keep coming for him. If so, I’m sure Jess will be himself again. He is easily discouraged and he had only three days’ work in his new picture.” “If Jess does change, is there any chance of your taking him back, Susan?” I asked. “Perhaps he has learned his lesson.” “No, no”, she cried, “Never. It’s too late. There have been too many ‘lessons,’ too many ‘new’ starts, too many times to forgive. When I could keep things to myself and no one else knew about it, I could take it. But this time there were not only the police, but we had a house- > me Se Oe . Ae soe guest, Martha Little, staying with us. She _ is the sister of one of my old schoolmates from Brooklyn. “Soon—just as soon as Jess signs the — property settlement—I shall take the chil- dren to a ranch in Nevada and file for my divorce,” she said. And I knew she meant it. “Now that the end has come, I want it over as soon as possible.” G HE picked up her bag and prepared to leave. She had talked as fully and as much as she could. The wounds were lit- erally so fresh that she could go no further. But as she rose she said, “There’s just one thing, Louella. Despite the sad mem- ory of what brought on our final break, don’t be too bitter against Jess in the fu- ture. In every marriage breakup there are two sides, and I’m not pretending to paint myself as an angel and Jess as a devil. “I have a temper and a hot tongue, and I work so hard I’m frequently tired and almost sick with nerves. Movie stars are never easy to live with, and no one knows that better than I.” I said, “I suppose a psychiatrist might say that Jess’ sudden violence was a de- fense mechanism against living in a set of circumstances intolerable to a man’s pride, or perhaps a guilt complex from doing nothing about the situation. “Perhaps, Susie,” I added as I walked with her to the door, “Jess’ violence was ‘not really directed so much against you as it was against himself.” “Maybe,” she replied softly, “I don’t know. I just know that my marriage is finished and done with—a sorry, shabby ending to many moments of happiness. My heart aches very much, but it is closed forever on the past.” END (Susan Hayward can be seen in 20th Century-Fox’s CinemaScope, Demetrius And The Gladiators.) ; SSS love begins at 30 (Continued from page 40) and lit a ciga- rette. “Being married to Frank Sinatra,” he said good-naturedly, “would not ex- actly simplify any woman’s life. Another thing,” he added, “Ava’s been abroad a great deal of the time. I don’t see as much of her as I used to.” Weren’t you in London recently? “Yes, and I saw her there. She had a very nice apartment out at Regent Park and a very nice secretary. And when I was there, Frank was with her.” How were they getting along? “I will tell you,” the executive con- tinued, “Ava gets more beautiful with the passage of time.” De you think Ava’s rid of all those little devils that used to plague her? The executive thought for several mo- ments. Then he mashed his cigarette in the ash tray. “Well, Ava is happier now than she was five years ago. She has grown up intellectually and emotionally. She has also discovered that as an actress, she has talent. Not so much talent as Sinatra. Did you see Frank in Eternity? A sensational performance. Academy Award caliber. The guy is really great. “Ava,” the producer continued, “has de- veloped her talent through hard work. It’s a source of satisfaction to her. What you must never forget about Ava is this: when she came out to Hollywood, she had noth- ing. She couldn’t sing, she couldn’t dance, she couldn’t act. All she could do was pose for cheesecake. As for her mentality— well, you remember. She didn’t show much judgment in her private life. “But she has come a long way since then. A long, long way. And shall I tell you something? The guy most responsible for her mental development is Artie Shaw. Whatever you say about Artie, you must admit that primarily he’s a scholar, a man who worships the intellect, a student of art and literature and good music. In my opinion, he’s the one who really developed Ava. He showed her the door to knowledge. He forced her to read books. He made her brain come alive. As a husband, the dames say he’s impossible. But certainly, he stimulated their pretty heads. He at- tracts intellectuals. “All right, so his friends are all in analysis—that’s neither here nor there. The point is that he taught Ava plenty. She began to assess herself, to take stock. Unfortunately, she is more emotional than intellectual. I mean she knows when she’s doing wrong or taking chances, but she goes ahead, anyway. “A few years ago when Sinatra was down in Texas, she knew she shouldn’t have flown down to him, but she did, any- way. I’m sure her brain told her not to marry Frank, but her heart told her just the opposite. She listens to her heart. “Why do she and Frank fight? They both have violent natures; they are both crea- tures of emotion. Ava is happier now than she has ever been before. Her new con- tract calls for $5,000 a week for the next five years, so she doesn’t have any money worries. She didn’t like most of the pic- tures we put her in, but she’s no Garbo. She doesn’t like Hollywood because she doesn’t have very many friends here. Just © Les Koenig, Fran Heflin and a few others. think she’d ever give up her career. — z sacs She says she wants six kids, but I don’t Es, es oe as 7 ew es — * s 4 | j

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f “Maybe, now that she’s financially fixed, x she and Frank will adopt a couple of kids. Maybe that’s what she needs to fulfill her life. You ask me if, at thirty, Ava Gardner is a happy woman. I think she is happier than she was five years ago, but she is ‘still an unfulfilled woman; she is unre- ~ quited. She has found flashes of love but she is still bedeviled. - “As I told you before, that’s just my opinion. Why don’t you interview her friends and acquaintances? Ask people about Ava. See what they say.” [) BEcTORS: producers, publicity men, old friends, old lovers, old schoolmates, shopkeepers, people who somewhere along the line had made contact with Ava Gard- ner—all had different interpretations of Miss Gardner. A director said, “I don’t know Ava ex- cept professionally. She’s a good actress if you don’t ask too much of her. She is cooperative. She doesn’t hold you up, and she’s easy to work with. One of these days she’s going to get a role she falls in love with, then watch out. She’s going to sur- prise the world. Is she really thirty? You'd never think it.” From _a publicity representative: “Ava Gardner is a lot better than some actresses we've handled. You know what they say about actors and actresses—they need you on the way up, and they need you on the way down, and in between you can go to hell Ava has never been like that. Of late, she has regarded us with a jaundiced eye but the still men swear by her, and you could never call her anything but co- — operative. _ “She’s really a level dame. If she gives you her word, you can count on it. She never pulls rank, either. At heart, she’s a nice kid. I'd say that she has given us less trouble than practically any other actress. To a large extent, she owes her success to publicity, and she knows it.” Said one reporter: “She’s okay, I guess. I've written about twenty stories on Ava. Ive always asked my photographer to get her best angles. Never once has she sent me a-thank-you note. I wrote one yarn about her fights with Frank and right away I was the prize heel of all time. A lousy double-crosser. Boy! You should have heard her.” And a man who used to take her out says, “She’s a beautiful girl. No doubt about it. But when she’s got you on the hook, she can really give it to you. Maybe deep down she hates men. Some of them have given her a hard time. Anyway, ’m glad she’s married to Sinatra, and not to me.” An old schoolmate from Newport News, Virginia, says, “I haven’t seen Ava Gard- ner since she was twelve or thirteen. Her family came from North Carolina, I think. I don’t know how long they lived in New- port News. She was in my class at school and seemed very shy, almost backward. Maybe it was because she was new. I never thought she would become famous. Just goes to show you.” = A fellow-citizen of Grabtown, North Carolina: “She comes from good old stock. Her daddy never made much money. He shared crops around here. I think there were seven kids in the family. Her mother died of cancer a couple of years back. A fine woman she was. They say she was plumb crazy about her brother, Ava was. Family kinda scattered now. Lot of neph- ews and nieces. They all speak very well of her. She used to send money home. Very proud of Ava Gardner in North Carolina. She and Kay Kyser. Right nice girl, Ava Gardner. They say she married that Italian crooner fellow, Perry Como, or somebody like that.” A Hollywood girl who knows Ava well: he :: P 5 i } ~~ ee BES fee ie ek “Ava’s a doll, a beautiful doll. Not a phony thing about her. Speaks her mind. When L. B. Mayer tried to take care of her be- cause she was dating Frank, she told him right off, told him, but good. Anything she’s got she’s earned the hard way. She’s very honest. She thinks that making movies is a whole lot easier than working at a typewriter. She doesn’t mind saying so, either. None of this dramatie coach busi- ness with her. She calls the shots as she sees them.” BRITISH Newspaperman reports, “Ava’s a good interview, speaks frankly, once in a while claims she’s being misquoted. I was down in Africa with her on that Mogambo location. I heard some funny stories about her and Sinatra. I don’t know how true they are, but here’s one. “One night when she and Frank were way out on location—no cities or towns nearby—they got into a battle royal. ‘I’ve had it, Frankie said. ‘I’m finished. I’m getting out. And with that, he walked out into the jungle. Incredible! Where could he have gone? : “T think they wanted Lana Turner for that picture, originally, and I don’t think Ava was a particular favorite of the di- rector, John Ford, but she gave an ex- cellent performance. The British fans like her quite well. She had an apartment in London when she was there, and she had English friends. “IT understand she suffers from an in- feriority complex and is wary of people. Oddly enough, she never seems especially happy. Do you think her marriage with Frank Sinatra will last? Over here, we don’t.” A Hollywood actor indulges in a little professional jealousy, perhaps. “I judge Ava on the record. She married Mickey Rooney in 1942. She divorced him in 1943. She got $25,000 for her heartache. She married Artie Shaw in 1945, divorced him in 1946. She got $5,000, a liberal educa- tion, and an introduction to psychiatry. I read all the time about this poor, fear- ridden, insecure little girl from North Carolina. This poor lil’ ole Ava honey- chile is gettin’ five grand a week, and I wish I were she. I can’t work up one ounce of sympathy for Ava.” A Hollywood agent discusses her: “Ava’s a sweetie but when it comes to men, she has no judgment at all. She is attracted to men in show business because she speaks their language. That’s why she married Rooney, Shaw, and Sinatra. “My wife said to me only the other day, ‘Ava Gardner should have married a doc- tor, and I said, ‘And what would she have talked to him about?’ With people in other professions—doctors, engineers, lawyers, scientists—Ava feels strange. She doesn’t belong with them. “She’s like Lana Turner. They are lusty, frank, down-to-earth, laugh it up, live it up, tell-him-off girls. Ava has a lot of bounce; so has Lana. An unhappy mar- riage? Okay, try again. These girls go out and do things.” Another former escort from Hollywood says, “Ava likes the simple things, in- formal clothes, plain food, staying at home and having a good time. In Hollywood she stays out of the night clubs now. She’s crazy about kids and if she has any sense she'll adopt a few. Joan Crawford has four, and they keep her darn busy between pictures. That’s what Ava needs. From Here To Eternity should make it easier for Frank to get jobs in town. 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School in itself I found very dull and I was happy when I finished. @. Your biography says you were ten when the war broke out and your mother took you back to Holland, where you later studied ballet. Why did you attend school in Holland under a Dutch name? What about your entertaining in Underground concerts to raise money for the Dutch re- sistance movement? _as I wanted to approach America by s the New York skyline and the fa 9 - e in 1939, mal s entere Holland—because things were beginning ~ to blow up all over Europe, and ae a A thought the safest place for a child was with her mother, after all. No one knew where it was safest at the tim pare Yes, I did go to school under a Dutch — name. I used my mother’s name because © it wasn’t too good an idea to draw atten- — tion to the fact that I was English. My ~ nationality just might have got me into — trouble. ae ae I was there all during the war, and 1 started studying ballet very soon after I arrived in Holland. I had taken various lessons in England and loved dancing, and © once I’d started in Holland, I decided 1 wanted to be a ballerina. I had a rather sketchy and erratic training because of the war. Malnutrition stopped me on one hand, and conditions got more and more ~ difficult. 4 I did indeed give various Underground concerts to raise money for the Dutch re- sistance movement. I danced at recitals, designing the dances myself. I had a friend — who played the piano and my mother ~ made the costumes. They were very ama-_ teurish attempts, but nevertheless at the time, when there was very little entertain- ment, it amused people and gave them an opportunity to get together and spend a pleasant afternoon listening to music and seeing my humble attempts. The recitals were given in houses with windows and — doors closed, and no one knew they were going on. Afterwards, money was collected and given to the Dutch Underground. 9. Would you tell me about your fam- ily and your life during the war? Did your family suffer any hardships because of it? Didn’t the English parachute into Holland near your town of Arnhem in an attempt to deliver the Dutch from the Nazis? A. 1 couldn’t really talk about the war — without talking for hours. It’s five years out of my life. I was living there and saw the landing and was there all during the fighting. Q. An impertinent question. Are your — parents still living, and if so, are they still — married? I ask this because your biog- — raphy mentions only your mother in your later life. Does the family still own the — home outside Brussels? . A. No, they are not. I mean, they are divorced. They are both living. No, we don’t own the home now. : @. When you went to England in 1948, — did you go alone? How did you get the part in High Button Shoes? . fe ik’ A. Yes, I went alone to England. It wasn’t until I had my first job, in High Button Shoes, that I was able to afford ~ the luxury of having my mother come over. At the time, there was a great deal of restriction where money was con-— cerned, and I couldn't get any money out of Holland. I did an audition for High — Button Shoes and, with many other girls, was put through my paces and then was engaged by the producer of the show at the time—a man called Archie Thompson— who gave me my first real break. Q. How old were you when you came to America to do Gigi on Broadway? Did — you sail or fly? Would you tell me your impression of New York? Was there any- thing in particular you wanted to see, or eat, or experience in the States? How did our cities impress you? What did you like about Americans the most? os A. I was twenty-two when I went to New York to do Gigi. I sailed, especially, ae $ I ian EME sR for the first time, and was dying to

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Liberty. Of course it was my we arrived about three o’clock : in the morning. It was pitch dark, and I stood freezing in a nylon nightie in front of my porthole, and saw nothing. I had a great day. I was shown New York, and went to my first baseball game immediately. Within two hours of my arrival in New York, I was standing in the Yankee Stadium, cheering my head off at a great game which I knew nothing at all about, but found very exciting. Natu- rally, I wanted to see everything, but I wanted to absorb America slowly, to take it as it is, as everybody sees it and lives it. The food? Well, I must say—all those steaks! Very exciting! Incidentally, they did a gréat deal for my health as I needed them at the time, and I’ve been a much healthier person since. The cities showed me America. We went through Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, De- troit, Chicago, Washington, Wilmington, Richmond, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Fran- cisco. San Francisco’s a great city, isn’t it? Oh, boy! I found it exciting to see America this way—working my way across —and thought it particularly exciting be- cause each city was so different. It was like arriving in a different country each time. I liked the unaffectedness of the Ameri- eams. They’re warm, they’re kind, and whatever they’ve got to say, they say it. 9. Were you homesick when you were making Gigi? Tell me about your meet- ing with William Wyler. A. Never. I was too happy to be home- sick. I was too excited about what I was doing. This was something I’d been long- ing for all of my life. I would have loved my mother to have been with me, and to have seen it all with me, but otherwise there was too much to be grateful for to nibble away at it with petty homesickness. Mr. Wyler came to London and I met him and his wife at his hotel. We talked about the picture and he agreed I could be tested for it. I made the test, which he arranged for me, as he wasn’t able to stay in London, and it wasn’t long before I heard the great news I could do Roman Holiday and that I was under contract with Paramount. 9. Did you enjoy making Roman Holi- day, and American methods of picture- making? : A. The American method of picture- making was slightly diluted by the Roman and Italian atmosphere. I don’t think I'll get the real American method until I work in Hollywood. I thought it was a great combination—good Hollywood or- ganization with a bit of Roman sunshine thrown in. We had great fun, and it was a fantastic experience. @. Has anyone ever told you that you resemble Gregory Peck? Some people here have said your face looks like a feminine version of his. A. I must say I haven’t noticed, because I’ve never thought of it. Id like to think so because—I mean, he’s a pretty good looking man. Isn’t he? Q. Do you consider London your home? A. London is my home. We have a little apartment here and my mother lives here. But I'm quite used to the idea now that I - shall be commuting for the rest of my life—I hope—between America and Eng- land. I hope to spend a lot of my time in New York. I love New York. I'd love to settle there. I love San Francisco and it’s a beautiful city, but you can’t com- pare the two. I like New York because there you’re im the center of things. What- ever’s going on in the world seems to sort of center around New York. People pass through, and I have the theatre there. If it were not for the theatre, I might very well live in San Francisco. ¥ > ae was 9. What : about your “appetite? A ae te ee . See =, s- ES Oe Ge ie ia What are your favorites? > A. I don’t say I eat a‘lot. I eat small meals, but I love to eat quantities of the things I like. I love meat. I love a steak. And I adore sweets and chocolate and things like that. But I try to take myself in hand. ; @. How about reading? What type of thing? A. I read as much as I possibly can, not as much as Id like to. Anything, as long as it’s by a good writer. My great hero has always been Rudyard Kipling—right now I’m a fan of Graham Greene’s. I’ve found that my life has been spent so much in ballet class or studios or working that I haven’t spent as much time in studying these things as I’d like to. In short, I’d How much? like to see and read and know a lot more than I do, and I’m working hard on it. @. What about love life? What can you say about your romantic life and your ideas on it? A. Oh, boy. (pause) I’ve been asked the question often enough—I should know the answer. Everybody knows I was en- gaged and no longer am, at this point. I’ve not as yet discovered a way to com- bine a career and married life, both of which are full time jobs and entail a great deal of responsibility because mainly they involve other people. It would be simple if it involved only one’s self. You’ve got to be pretty sure, and to be able to say with certainty that you can cope with the combination, and until I find a way of doing that, I don’t think I dare get mar- ried. Right now Im still pretty level- headed about it. [’m not a great girl for going out with a lot of people. I have my particular friends and like to see a lot of them. This is all a lot of talk—you realize that, don’t you? One day I'll just fall in love and get married, career or no career. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t in love last time—I was very much so. Perhaps too much so to dare embark on a life I didn’t know too much about. Well—at this point I’m free lance, and I think it’s the best. 9. What about Sabrina Fair? A. I read the stage play but haven’t yet read the screen script. I love the story, I love the idea. I think Paramount bought it for me partly because I like it so, and I’m very happy about the whole idea—and that Billy Wilder is going to direct. How lucky can a girl be? She makes her first picture with William Wyler and her next with Billy Wilder. It almost seems too good to be true, and Tll try to live up to all this. Td like to add something to this now Tve finished it. Dear Miss Wilkie, I want to thank you very much for this inter- view. On hearing it played back, I find it rather incoherent and hope you will forgive me for being so. I do hope to meet you very soon when I come out to Holly- wood. Ill say goodbye, and thank you very much. If Miss Hepburn thinks she gave an in- coherent interview, she should know that the most vitriolic profiles ever written were those in which the writer reported verbatim the conversation of his subject. It is an unflattering method, usually. Miss Hepburn had no idea her replies would be set down verbatim (and they wouldn’t have been if she had been less compe- tent). Yet she comes out of it a charm- ing and articulate girl. 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Reading between the lines, one understands that Miss Hepburn suffered considerably during the war, yet she does not dwell on the fact. She glosses over the fact that she has been a victim of mal- nutrition, that she was a spectator of bloody fighting, and that today she can’t get enough meat or chocolate. She treats lightly the fact that she contributed to the Dutch resistance movement, an activity for which she could have been caught and put into a concentration camp. She mod- estly neglected to answer questions that would necessitate a bit of boasting—such things as her linguistic ability and the extent of her travels. She discloses a de- lightful sense of humor, a zest for life, a sincere liking for Americans and the — adoption of American slang. She seems to be a self-reliant, ambitious and coura- geous girl who has a deep capacity for love. Her recent engagement to a wealthy British businessman is discussed, however briefly, in a frank and refreshing manner, and her ideas about marriage would prove her to be an unusually thoughtful girl. This is all we know. This, and the de- - scription of people who have met her. They are the only ones, at this writing, who are capable of describing her in terms slightly new to the Hollywood vocabulary. They include coquettish, saint-like, alluring, hoydenish, disarming, sensitive and capti- vating. The American press will soon be swamped. with news about her, but in the interim Moprern ScrEEN has copped the first interview for a fan magazine. Despite the revolutionary method of interviewing, it was successful because the new star is, among other things, coherent. END rita’s forgotten child (Continued from page 57) room. He-beck- oned and she darted to his side and put a trusting hand in his. Eduardo Cansino is a kindly man who has worked hard for all of his fifty-odd years. He loves and under- stands children. A few minutes later, Re- becca was laughing in the tiny kitchenette, while Grandpa was fixing her a cheese sandwich. T= Cansino dancing studio swarms with children. Eduardo goes through class after class, pointing his stick, demonstrat- ing intricate steps. Between classes, he tucks his castanets into his belt, sits briefly at his desk and goes over his accounts. Some stars are very slow to pay for their children’s lessons. Eduardo’s life is not easy. “It is strange. They expect me to carry their accounts when they are not working, but so often when they are suc- cessful they are too busy to remember to pay me.” Perhaps Eduardo is the most normal in- fluence in the lives of Rita’s children. Simple, unassuming, he is a man with natural sympathy for the awkwardness of kids, and takes pleasure in encouraging them. His pupils adore him, and most of the youngsters knock themselves out try- ing to please him. At Grandpa’s studio, Rebecca has a chance to be with other children like any normal eight-year-old. “Normal” is a word that could not be used to describe the life of the little girl up to now. Before she was born, on December 17, 1944, Rita had an- nounced that she wanted a boy “just like his daddy—another Orson.” Rebecea’s proud father declared that he wanted seventeen children. Nothing was said, then, about Christopher, his daughter by his first wife. Christopher is now eight- een and lives in North Africa with her mother, who is remarried to a British diplomat. Even Orson’s best friends admit that he never has contributed consistently to the support of Christopher, although he has shown great interest in her during re- cent years and carries on a steady cor- respondence with her. He has displayed a similar attitude toward Rebecca, con- tributing little or nothing, financially, but showing concern for her welfare. Even in the beginning, a hectic life ed- died around Rebecca. During her first year of life, her parents raged and quarrelled. When Rebecca was four months old, Mrs. Volga Haworth Cansino died, and Rita was grief-stricken. ) Work became an escape for the film star. Rita wanted to forget her personal life. She became feverishly active. A few days after Rebecca’s first birthday, Rita told reporters she would keep working with the “excep- tion of a few days during the Christmas holidays’ which she planned to devote to her daughter. Rita has always professed devotion “to Rebecca. She has a great deal in common with other working mothers who are con- stantly torn from their children. Some of Rita’s yearning that things might be dif- ferent came out in her statement following her divorce from Orson Welles. “Right now there is a young person named Rebecca Welles who means more to me than career or anything else. I will al- ways be grateful that I have her. You don’t know what it means to me to come home and have her put her arms around me and hug me. She’s awfully smart, too.” Rita’s alleged romance with Haymes is one of the latest items of Hollywood gos- sip—and it is amazing how much of that gossip is known tc the small fry of Bever- ly Hills, who repeat to each other morsels overheard at home. Ugly reality and cyni- cal wisdom can come during childhood in this tinselled town, and more than one famous parent has come to the point of asking, “What have I done?” Rita, as everyone knows, has made mis- takes of judgment, but not of the heart. No one knows how she may have suffered during the long hours of the night. Surely, her intention has not been to harm Rebecca. Rita’s turbulent existence—the demands of her career and her need to rest and relax between pictures—has kept her away from Rebecca four to six months of every year of the child’s life. Yet she listened attentively five years ago to the counsel of Dr. Maurice Bernstein, a surgeon in Bev- erly Hills, who has been Rebeecca’s doctor since she was born and her former guard- ian. He advised Rita, “You are leaving Rebecca alone too much. I would suggest you spend more time with her. She can- not grow up normally and develop as she should without the love and attention of her mother. I feel that a child needs the closeness of her parents, and I strongly advise you to spend more time with Rebecca.” R ira probably did not ifitend to ignore Dr. Bernstein’s advice. But her per- sonal life was becoming more complicated and she was on her way to Europe again. While she was abroad, the doctor and his wife, Hazel, did all that they could for Rebecca. The child’s serious little face would light up when Dr. Bernstein made his daily visits. He provided toys and gifts from Orson Welles, who is the doctor’s — ei Akay. (ue Sie Sn ri he Rantaiai inion

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LA . pest triend: Mheldoctan also brought draw- ings made by Orson in Paris, which de- lighted Rebecca, who enjoys a talent for art. The little girl must have felt that she was loved, even in her mother’s absence. During the period that Rita was making international headlines, the-doctor brought Rebecca steel bars, paints and brushes, a swing and a sandbox. Rita provided every necessity and luxury for Rebecca, and did little to attempt to collect from Orson Welles the $50 weekly support awarded by the court. Frank Belcher, the attorney who represented Rita at that time, says that to the best of his knowledge the sum due Rita is now almost $15,000. Rita would never press Orson for the money, knowing that times were dif- ficult for him. Neither attorney Belcher nor Dr. Bern- stein ever see the film star any more. Dr. Bernstein just shakes his head sadly and says, “Something has happened to that girl. What, I don’t know. I am not allowed to see Rebecca any more, and I love her like my own. I write; I wire; all my com- munications are ignored. I don’t know if the letters and gifts I send on to Rebecca from her father ever reach her. There is a wall. Rita seems to be so suspicious now.” When did the change in Rita begin? It is difficult to tell. She seldom associates with any of her old friends any more. Even so, her co-workers are still loyal to her and only reluctantly admit that she has changed. ILLIONS of words were written about Rita’s mad fling with the still-mar- ried Aly Khan, just as the presses are roll- ing now with stories about the still-mar- ried Dick Haymes. But in the midst of her idyll with Aly, Rita dashed home, took Re- becea and her nurse and kept them with her for several months. While Rebecca was traveling with her mother, her father hoped for a chance to see her. When he learned that they were at Aly’s Chateau L’Horizon, Orson sent Rita a wire stating that he wanted to see his daughter and giving the time of his in- tended arrival. He practically bought out the Paris toy shops. But when he reached the chateau, Rita, Rebecca and Aly were gone. Orson waited two days for Rebecca to return, amusing himself by playing with the toys he had brought. He waited in vain. Finally, there was the belated wedding of Rita and Aly on May 27, 1949, six and one-half months before the royal birth of Princess Yasmin in Lausanne, Switzerland, on December 28, 1949. This event was regarded as so impor- tant that it stopped traffic in Lausanne and made banner headlines in newspapers all over the world. There was some criti- cism of Rita by church and women’s groups, but there was no condemnation of Rita at home by Dr. Bernstein. He waited patiently, regarding the Aly episode as a “fling.” He hoped that Rita would have time for Rebecca, now that she no longer toiled before the cameras. Instead, Rebecca was packed off to Gstaad, Switzerland, with her nurse shortly before Princess Rita’s regal accouchement. The advent of Yasmin completely eclipsed Rebecca. Months went by while Rebecca waited in a lonely hotel for her mother to return. Meanwhile, the world press spewed millions of words over the birth of the Princess Yasmin. Finally, in February, 1950, Rita and Aly joined Rebecca in Gstaad, and she no longer played alone in hotel corridors. But the months that followed were no happier than before. Rita and Aly led a tumultuous life. Rita’s old complaint against Orson—“he was not interested in making a home’—was also directed against Aly. Does Rita now see twice- married Dick Haymes as her future de- fender of the home? W ame she decides, Princess Yasmin, the $3,000,000 baby, and Rebecca are at home with the servants. Rita said that she needed a rest. She had been working hard at the studio for the last year. When she is making a picture, there is little time for her family. If she has an early call, she seldom can see the children before she goes to work. When she is not work- ing, she sleeps late. Only on weekends, when the warm, family-loving Cansinos gather at Rita’s house for Sunday dinner, are they really together. When Rita is depressed and mistrustful of the glittering existence she has. sought—then she turns to her family. And they come—father, aunts, uncles, brothers and in-laws. In Hollywood, where dependent relatives are the rule, Rita’s family is a well-known exception. It is a pity that Rita, who came from such a warm and loving family, has not succeeded in duplicating such a home life for herself. She has complained loudly of her husbands’ lack of interest in “home life.” Has she ever shown them what a loving home life is like? When she is busy with her torrid romances, doesn’t she neg- lect her family? Rebecca has needed protection from stupid people. More often than Princess Rita cares to remember, little Rebecca has overheard such careless remarks as, “Isn’t it a shame she isn’t as pretty as Yasmin? . .. too bad, she looks just like Orson .. . well, at least, people say she’s smart... .” Thoughtless “friends” have said these things. Rita’s secretary, Margaret Parker, has-shuddered as she saw the impact on little Rebecca, who has grown more and more silent, more and more given to bursts of temper and outright rebelliousness. But four years ago Rita thought she had gilt-edged insurance on happiness for her- self and Rebecca with marriage to the Prince of the Moslem world. When Rita married Aly Khan her father remarked, “Now, all we know about Rita is what we read in the papers.” Then he wrapped up a bottle of perfume and mailed it to his daughter as a wedding present. AMILY ties were renewed when Rita came home with Rebecca and Yasmin in tow. Rumor has it that she was abso- lutely broke. According to the stories, the film queen had spent her entire fortune during her two-year tenure as Princess Margarita, and she had to borrow $50,000 from her agents to get started again. Even her hope for a settlement on the Princess Yasmin came to nothing. All she has is an empty court order awarding her $48,000 annually for Yasmin’s support, signed by Judge A. J. Mastretti in a Reno courtroom. Announcement of the award drew this comment from her father-in- law, the Aga Khan: “Aly need not pay one penny, as the court order applies to Nevada, and, at most, to America, where Aly has no money.” Rita finds herself in the same position as thousands of other American mothers who are divorced and unable to collect support for their children from their ex- husbands. Fortunately, she has enough earning years left to be able to compen- sate for some of the income she has lost. But this film star has much more to re- cover than her fortune. Rebecca Welles lives in her mother’s shadow. When Rita devotes herself to making her daughter’s life happier, she may find more contentment in her own life. Rita will learn that the sparkle in her child’s eyes can outshine Aly’s dia- monds, her own name in lights, and the fleeting glow of romance. END Figure perfect with ALL NYLON lure garter brief LUX-EEZ garter pantie of specially knit nylon tricot has 2-way stretch ac= tion. 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