Silver Screen magazine 1962 04APR April 1962
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Sheilah Graham’s Intimate Gossip continued from page 6 and Mrs. Joan Cohn together you could ‘swear they were in love. But marri: “Never, never, never.” says Mr. H. Why not? . . . Don't ever again invite Marlon Brando and British actor Ric! to the same picture. They fought to a fare-thee-well all during “Mutiny On The Bounty,” which is finally finished, glory he, at # cost to Metro of twenty dollars, The picture took a year to com- plete, Marlon told Mr. Harris, “T've been fighting all comers for years. I'm a big id T plan to stay one.” “Under sht environment he could have been Richard regretted. T wasn't there, but a friend of mine saw Frank Sinatra attacked by a drunk a Newport Beach bar. The swinger landed. not only on Sinatra, but his body- guard as well. It's the penalty of fame. Someone is always trying to prove he’s a better man . .. "Twas denied at Metro that Ingrid Thulin had to be re-dubbed in her “Four Horseman” picture with Glenn Ford. It was hard to understand the Swedish discovery of Ingmar Berg- man, And another voice was used, after Ingrid had to return to Sweden. The some problem arose, for a different rea- son, with the voice of Jeff Hunter in h role of Christ in “King Of Kings.” It was felt that Jeff's voice was not forceful enough. But he re-dubbed his own dia logue, after some coaching from Agnes Moorehead, With Robert Horton's “Wagon Train” 4s number one in the ten most popular Liz Taylor enjoys day off from work on “Cleopatra” with husband Eddie Fisher. 10 After long stay in Europe, Steve Boyd's back and Tina Louise has him this night, TV shows, it will take huge willpower for him to stick to his decision to leave the series at the end of this season. “Five years is enough,” says Bob. Th what Raymond Burr said, but as you know, he changed his mind and signed other long spell with “Perry Ma- Success has spoiled Richard in my opinion. He seems morose. won't talk t0 people at the studi Reminds me, Jack Kelly would like to know what his bosses have in mind for him when the current batch of 13 lavericks” are completed. Jack, like wt of the stars of a TV series, would like to make some feature films, where the pace is slower, and the money. higher James Garner, by the w noyed about the re-running of the javericks” he made. “It gives the im- pression that I'm still with the series.” James shouldn't worry. Every producer after him for big roles in import It’s rather early to predict the Oscar winner for 1962—that m next April—bat right now I'm betting on Raf Vallone and the amazing: per formance he gives in the movie version of Arthur Miller's “View From The Bridge.” Raf reminds me of a young Spencer Tracy or Jean Gabin Amanda Blake, the flamboyant Kitty of unsmoke,” is the quietest millionaires private life, Amanda lives alone, with several dogs, cats and assorted pets for company. ‘Suzy Parker is clever. She didn’t have to buy her way out of her 20th Centur T had three more years. My salary was high. I talked with them and they let me go.” Suzy plans to spend most of her working time in Europe - + + Rosemary Clooney can't understand why Jose Ferrer is being so difficult about the divorce. She refuses to discuss the reason for the divorce, except that it would be impossible for her to change her mind about it. Jose is stalling in hopes that the old charm will win her back. For the sake of their five children, T hope so. . . But the dering from George Montgomery seems Rob Horton, who'll soon leave “Wagon Train.” at premiere with wife Marilyn. h different gether for final. I'm amazed that two people could have stayed 18 years. Maximilian Schell is the new wonder boy of the screen since his “Judgmen At Nuremberg” film role. Max says he de not care for the limelight too much, “Fame kills more than it helps” I wish he would be as explicit about his ro- mance with Nancy Kwan, He told me definitely there was no such thing- “Publicity.” he assured me. But he flew all the way from Rome to Hollywood just to see Nancy for 24 hours. That sounds like Love to me. Marilyn Monroe promised George Cukor she would be on time for her mething’s Got To Give” movie. Top leading men were leery of signing be cause of the uncertain time element Especially James Garner. “I have to do another film in March, and when I say T'll be there,” he told me. lyn. . . Kim Novak could earn a handsome living as a painter, if she didn't do ditto as a film star. Her portraits of her mother and father are excellent. But of all her works, I like best her amazing drawing of Christ. All the sadness. the love and the power is there. T don't understand Steve Allen’s de- cline in TV popularity. Is it because he became too serious? Or was it that he preferred to live in Hollywood and do his shows from here? This seems to be fatal for some performers. It has never affected Jack Benny or Bob Hope. But Milton Berle did badly here. And Jack Paar has never risked longer than a week or two. Steve prefers California because his children by a previous mar- riage are here with their mother . Brigitte Bardot came of age, it seems to me, when she publicly denounced the Secret Army Organization of Algiers which demanded a larger donation from her—or else. She now realizes there are greater issues in life than a certain BB. And the first step towards happiness is to be unobsessed with yourself. (continued on page 58) THE OUTSIDER HE isolation of an Indian reservation Hamilton Hayes, played with reat sympathy by Tony Curtis, leaves his tribe to do battle for his country. Soldicring comes to him more through y than aptitude, and always there's intense loneliness can come from being different. However, once ac epted for his own. worth by James Franciscus, a fellow Marine, a sense of helonging begins to develop. Then, quick fs it takes to develop a picture, two tremendous events change the future: the day Hayes became a hero, Franciscus (James Sorenson) killed. Hayes, Sorenson, four other Marines and Navy corpsman raised the American flag ‘on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, a mo- ment that became the greatest wartime photograph of World War Il. Hayes could not accept this hero's role, for merely helping raise a flag. when men like Sorenson were dead. To escape con- stant reminders of what he considered his unworthiness, he began to drink. Decline was swift. Despite efforts by himself and others to avert inevitable tragedy, Hayes died exactly ten years and one month after bein fame he was unable to understand or accept. Though very well done, there seems to be something more that should have been said, or perhaps said clearer about this unusual and unhappy man. (Universal-International. ) LOVER, COME BACK should be cleared up, and Rock is doing all he can to perpetuate the cause and though rival Dori approves of such unethical tacti ness, she. too, shoulders, word, some of the responsibil the two potential love-birds are crossing sabres, Tony Randall, Rock's boss, is running around looking for Band- A superb specimen Tony Curtis as Ira Hayes, one of the heroes of lwo Jima, in “The Outsider.” of a product that doesn't exist. This is ‘one time Randall would be crazy not to go off his rocker. Doris also cannot be adjudged accountable for her actions ‘once she discovers that Rock, about to seduce her, really isn't a brilliant scien- tist at all but that foul creature she had dedicated herself to destroy and make Madison Avenue safe, once more, for womanhood. In a hilarious comedy that doesn't need Technicolor to tell you how blue some of the lines are, everyone per: forms as though carried away by the mad swirl of wicked fun and high spirits. (Universal-International.) ONE, TWO, THREE F HE could get Coca-Cola into Russia, businessman James Cagney figures name would go down in marketing andiose though these ambitions ‘ nothing compared to the wheel- ing and dealing that goes on once his Pamela Tiffin, arrives after a hot romance, Pamela plunges into a mad escapade with Horst Buchholz, an unwashed beatnik and a rabid Com- munist. To add to the nightmare, Pam- la's parents are coming to Europe. What to do? What to do? Cagney takes the ‘only honorable way out and decides to frame Buchholz. Planting anti-Com- jgns on his motorcycle, Cagney figures iberia, at least. Unfortunately, at the same time Buchholz is flung into discovered Pamela is preg- nant. She and her radical have been secretly wed six weeks. Again, the gears in Cagney’s conniving mind start work- ing, but once Buchholz is rescued, there's the even greater problem of how to make him acceptable to Pamela's papa. Mar- velous fun that batters at the dreariness of Communism with laughter; a most (continued on page 48) u
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HOLLYWOOD e By DOROTHY O’LEARY * Troy Donahue rescued jrom howling admirers * Brett Halsey’s mixed up romantic li ol tenet DONAHUE was happy to get back alive from a recent p.a. tour. He had to be rescued by police from fans who literally mobbed him in Chicago and Cincinnati, and in New York City they got so out of hand that Troy had to be taken over roof tops by the gendarmes to escape his howling admirers! Then, as his plane was approaching Los An- geles airport, it developed brake trouble and had to circle out over the ocean for an bour dumping gas before attempting a landing which fortunately was 0 safely. “Everyone aboard was praying, believe me," said Troy. Back home, Troy resumed dating Suzanne Pleshette, but both refuse to be quoted on any “ro- mance.” Connie Stevens, chaperoned by her sister-in-law, went to the mountains near Tayllwild for a weekend of dates with Elvis Presley who was there on location Jor “Kid Galahad.” Connie says she and Elvis are friends, have a lot of fun to- gether and she “likes” him—but insists “it's no romance.” Adds Connie, “Really, I'm in the mood for a wild, new ro- mance!” Asked if she had any special candidate in mind, Connie quipped. “Marlon Brando.” But maybe she meant Glenn Ford, for she and Glenn have be- come @ new twosome around town. Brett Halsey's roma is_very mixed up. Estranged wife Luciana Paluz- ai left him about a year ago and went to Rome where their son Christian was born last June. Brett had never seen his son when Luciana loomed up in a Los Angeles court recently asking $600 a month support for their son who was still in Italy with her mother. The court agreed with Brett that he should not be compelled to support a child he had never seen. Brett also petitioned for custody of the child. Luciana then agreed to bring the baby here. She and Brett also agreed to meet with a court con- ‘Viator later, to explore the possibility ili n of a reconciliation, No divorce papers have been filed. But Brett meantime continues to steady-date Debbie Smith Minardos Power Loew, ex-wife of Nico Minardos and Arthur Loew and widow of Ty Power. Oddly, Brett and Nico are good friends, often lunch together! That blue and white color scheme se- lected by Sandra Dee for the nursery was certainly prophetic. She and Bobby Darin welcomed a son, Dodd Mitchell Darin, just a few days before their first wedding anniversary. By the time you read this Sandy and Bobby will be co starring together again, this time in “If A Man Answers.” Meantime, Bobby has made “Point Blank.” When Rod Taylor returned to the 20th Century-Fox studio here he was pre- sented with more than 10,000 pieces of mail protesting the cancellation of his aE Connse:Stesens, ahi's Been dating Elvis Presley, has nove switched to Glenn Ford. Before leaving for Switzerland, Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer attend premiere. ‘Hong Kong” series. Rod was under- standably pleased by this flood of mail which accumulated while he was in Europe starring in “Seven Seas To Calais.” And you fans will be pleased to know he's signed a new contract at 20th calling for a new TY series in which he'll resume his Glenn Evans role in San Francisco! First, though, he'll star in the feature, “Big River, Big Man.” You can discount those rumors out of Rome that he and Anita Ekberg will marry. It's little known that Rod was married when he was about 19 in his native Austral He's being very wary about a second matrimonial try. Despite her success, career-wise and social, Ann-Margret is not the girl to leave her family home Jor an apartment of her own, as so many young actresses do, She and her parents have just moved into a new two-bedroom, two-bath apart- ment and it pleases her as much as @ 30-room mansion would. Her mother en- courages her dating many men, rather than settling down to a steady, and A-M continues as one of the dating-est gals in town, (She and Connie Stevens seem tied in this race!) A-M has been seeing more of Frankie Avalon lately, but when she was in New York on a pa. tour she saw Chuck Glasser, an old beau from New Trier High School, now a pre-med student at Columbia. Incidentally, A-M is eager to return to her “brunette per- sonality.” She had to have her hair lightened to a red-blonde for “State Fair” but she’s one brunette who doesn't believe gentlemen prefer blondes! Dolores Hart returned from London a changed girl, at least sppearance-wise. Her hair, which hadn't been cut since she was 11, was cropped short and dark- ened—this had been done for her role ii “The Inspector"—and she’s leaving it that way. She also admitted that although she'll have occasional dates with Santa ‘Monica business man Don Robinson, the romance is over. He visited ber while ‘she was working in London. But Dolores seems interested in English tycoon John Gutson, whom she dated over there. Old beau Earl Holliman gave her a welcome hhome party here. He's resumed paint and Dolores bought two of his oils. Rock Hudson's fans love him in high comedy and he proves again in “Lover, Come Back” that he's @ fine farceur. But he's aiming at versatility, so he's doing heavy drama in “The Spiral * just completed, and wants to this with a “strong love story.” He’s signed to star in Ross Hunter's “Dark Angel,” which will be a re-make | one of the late Ronald Colman's most popular films, made back in '35. But Rock isn't sure if this will be next on Ns slate. Meantime, he's having @ short vacation and still dates Marilyn Maxwell As of now, it's our guess that the long-distance romance of Gardner Mc- ay and New York model Dolores Haw: kins will not end in marriage, despite frequent flying trips across country to see each other. Gard has resumed dat ing Greta Chi here. But his real new all-consuming interest is very “arty.” He's personally shooting an art film with his own 16mm camera, to coordinate with the recital of a Rupert Brooke poem! A very off:beat project. Watch for Gard’s shaggy dog “Pussycat” in one of forthcoming “Adventures In Paradis Diane Baker is also making a 16mm film, hers is a travelogue which she's shooting in India while on location ther for “Nine Hours To Rama." In “Rama you'll be interested to see Horst Buch holz, who is really 28, “age” from 18 to 24 40 28 and he does it without a change | makeup! Also watch for the other Marbara Luna became Doug McClure’ December bride in a very quiet wedding. I's a big evening for Cheryl Holdridge, what with handsome Rick Nelson as escort: co-star in this, Valerie Gearon, 18, a girl from Wales who portrays an East Indian, Shades of Anna Kashfi! Anyway, Valerie gets star billing in this, her very first film! The house Bob and Marilyn Horton were renting was sold out from under their feet before they could renew their ease and they've not found another to their liking so they'll take an apartment. until they go East in April, after Bob shoots his final “Wagon Train” hour. He's determined to tackle Broadway. probably will do the musical “Under- world,” and Marilyn, singer, may be in it, too. “The Interns” bunch staged a real swinging—or should we say “twisting” party. The invited press were driven from the Columbia studio parking lot to the sound stage in ambulances! Cliff Robertson, Mickey Callan, James Mac Arthur, Nick Adams, Suzy Parker, Haya Harareet, Anne Helm and Stefanie Pow- ers were all there and Mickey, a former dancer, led the Twist lessons for all. No casualties at the party but the oft: quoted phrase was, “Is there a doctor in the house?” News tid-bits gleaned at the party: Suzy Parker flew out two trunks full of her own fabulous clothes so the studio could select several outfits she wears as a model in the film (she's not a nurse it) . ... Stefanie Powers is having name trouble. Her real name is Stefanie Paul, her nickname Taffy. When she made “Experiment In Terror” she was called Taffy Paul, later was named Stefanie Paul and now the studio has decided on the surname Powers. Her pals still call her Taffy... Anne Helm had been bitten by a dog a few days be- fore but fortunately didn’t have to have the long series of rabies shots . . . Ha Harareet, in her first screen appearance since her debat in “Ben-Hur,” admits she now calls London her home. The Dick Chamberlain, TV's Dr, Kildare, and Rosanna Schiafino attend a first-night. Israeli beauty planned to return to Eng- land as soon as “Interns” finished, ad- mits she has a love interest there but would not divulge his name, Lee Remick was given a surprise birth- day party by husband Bill Colleran and his invitations announced it was a “Twist around Lee party. He had two dance instructors there to teach the dance dementia to guests who included Jack Lemmon, Gig Young and Liz Montgom- ery, Marge and Gower Champion—who know a little about dancing, themselves. And if you're tired of reading about the Twist, we're tired of writing about this “erase that has captured the nation’s Jrenzy." If George Peppard’s acting career should ever pall on him, he needn't worry about income. He has a builder's license, in fact, put himself through college by doing construction work. And to keep his “hand in,” he's now personally build: ing walls and making major renovations in the house he’s bought here in town. He's finally moved his family up from their former home ne San Diego. George ages from 18 to 45 in “How The West Was Won,” wears a mustache for the later sequences and because of the film's long schedule ix getting quite attached to his hirsute adornment. June Allyson, fully recovered from her throat operation, looks wonderful, Jeels wonderful, says she's enjoying “be- ing @ mother.” She did one TV show with Dick Powell but has no other plans for a while, except a “real vacation” in Mexico with Dick. “I only hope he can get way as we plan,” she adds, June had to have several nodules removed from her vocal chords. They were mak- ing her voice deeper and deeper; she also lost her voice completely frequently and her breathing capacity had been cut to half! “Now my voice pitch is back (continued on page 60) 8
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Sandra Dee: OF COURSE mrs BOY Sandra had said all along that her baby was going to be a boy and bought everything blue as a matter of course. The stork complied nicely By Jack Holland When bubbly ra Dee married Bobby Dari: she made up her mind to go with him wherever he went, come what may. She stuck to resolve even when she discovered that she was pregnant. With the Darin heir expected last December, Bobby had commitments to fill and he didn’t like the idea of leaving Sandra during the last couple of months. “What do you mean—leaving me?” Sandra asked. “I'm going with you. “But should you be doing all that traveling around —now?” Bobby asked her. “Certainly! Why shouldn't 1? I'm perfectly all right,” she retorted. So off she went to Oklahoma and Texas where Bobby was on location for his picture, “State Fair.” It was a busy two months and it wasn’t until November that Sandra and Bobby returned home. Up to this time, Sandra had accepted the fact that it takes nine months for a baby to be born, so she wasn’t too impatient, but once she was home, she began to (continued on page 56)
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Horst’s French bride, Miriam Bru, prefers being wife and mother. HORS TMBUIG HOR By Bill Tusher In a small village in East Prussia a group of bombed out children evacuated from Berlin sat in the classroom of a makeshift school. They were too young to know political right from wrong, but not too young to suffer the ravages of a war they had done nothing to bring on. In them, as in mankind in general, the urge to go on was strong. In that classroom life went on as usual—or as nearly as usual as could be managed owing to the nightmarish exigencies of World War II. Children in that class of ten-year-olds were like children from time immemorial—wide-eyed and trusting, bursting with love and curiosity. And filled with secret daydreams. Boys, in the un- folding of new senses, took notice of girls for the first time as a species especially fair and attractively different from themselves. One such lad, shyly awakening to the wonders of life, was (continued on page 18)
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Horst met his wife, Miriam, when they starred in a German film, but it was not a case of love at first sight HORST | continued Horst Buchholz, the slender, sensitively handsome son of a Berlin shoemaker. Along with the other children, young Horst had been separated from his parents and hustled to safety so that he might grow up to live in—and perhaps to help make—a better world than the one to which he was born. His class had been in what amounted to a crash penmanship improvement program, and he was filled with a bursting ambition to exceed every other boy in this art. It was not an oversight that he felt no rivalry with girls. Alas, his incentive had little to do with any thirst for scholastic achievement— or even with a desire for the approval of his teacher. Any thought of competing with the girls would have been academic because the teacher already Giving up his Jreedom was no problem to Horst. “As for success with women, I've had it (but) it gets boring.” Called “a continental Jimmy Dean,” Horst scored in “Fanny; ha surpassed that of any other girl in the class. She selected the young lady whose handwriting had stood in front of the room, smiling nervously, and basking in that distinction. As Horst Buchholz looked at her from his desk he was overcome with admiration and dizzy with strange stirrings. Horst was sure that she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen—and he lost his schoolboy heart to her. “It was the most marvelous thing,” smiles the young man who grew up to be an international film star, the coveted object of feminine daydreams on he was always the first of the girls, and I put all my power, all my desire to be the first of the boys. “That is because the first girl and the first boy, when they got the best marks, had to come forward in front of the teacher, and they had to hold hands two continents. stars naxt in “One, Two, Three” with Pamela Tiff ae | oi while the teacher made a big speech, lasting 20 minutes about them being the best in the class.” For Horst, taller than six feet now in his 27th year and more strikingly good looking than ever, his innocent idyll with that pink-cheeked, dark- haired classmate was one of the two most memora- ble emotional attachments of his life. he was a sweet, sweet lovely girl,” he says, a Just standing in front of the class and holding hands with her was so wonderful. This actually was my soft glow of reminiscence in his hazel eyes. first falling in love. I had to write the letters beauti- ful. It meant hard work being in love, but I had to keep it up.” Five months were all Horst and his comely little classmate had. She was a playmate—but different somehow from any boy he had played with. He stayed with a family that (continued on page 44)
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A radiantly happy Debbie and her husband Harry Karl, flank Carrie, 5, and Todd, 3%, in a joyful family portrait. WYYDYY YDYWLP/YY DEBBIE REYNOLDS: TTTXV LI WN Y WY KYM YD Was TWANG SOR MY CHYLDBEN” With her usual candor, Debbie talks about the joys—and the problems—of raising Carrie and Todd and what she wishes for their well-being By Dora Albert Debbie Reynolds said, he Everybody spoils children,” “but green eyes twinkling, I don’t want mine any mc e spoiled than normal. “I have a particular problem in avoiding having the children spoiled. When I’m with Carrie and Todd people often ec up to us and say, ‘Aren't they adorable? Isn't rie beautiful?” When we get home . T have to spend half an hour explaining to Carrie, *You ful only if you are beautiful inside. When you have a happy smile and are nice to people, then they say that you are adorable.’ “Actually it's not good for a little child to hear these extravagant complime s. It’s all right to say these things to parents, but not in the presence of the children. Such praise could make them self-conscious, perhaps even ited. When we neaning people do this to Carrie and Todd, I have to spend a lot of time trying to undo the effect. That's one of the reasons I seldom take the children out in public. When I take them shopping, I try to go to stores where people aren't likely to make a fuss over them.” We were sitting in the all-white den of the new Harry Karl-Debbie Reynolds home in Beverly Hills, Debbie had her blonde hair up (she had just washed it) and she was wearing a simple white blouse and a blue and white wool skirt, marked off in neat small squares. If Debbi face wasn’t among the world’s most famous, you'd take her for a chic, attractive young suburban mother. Debbie and Harry and the children had been living in the house for three weeks. A stream of electricians, carpenters and plumbers were still coming in and out of the house. Moving men were delivering supplies to the basement. Upstairs, all rie and three-and- calm. Five-year-old Car- half-year-old (continued on page 46) 2
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An 18-year marriage that was devoid of scandal until now is terminating in divorce. Were “other women” to blame? BEHIND DINAH SHORE’S MARRIAGE CRACK-UP! By Helen Hendricks On New Year's Eve, a year ago, there was a laughter-filled party at the fabulous desert Palm Springs home of a department store magnate. Married couples and pairs of sweethearts danced in the New Year. One lovely guest had left her two children asleep in her own luxurious Palm Springs home and come alone—Dinah Shore. Whenever the telephone rang, she stepped forward expectantly, smiling, “That must be George.” But none of the well wishers’ calls were for her. Finally, she went to a telephone in an adjoining bedroom, “I want to wish George a Happy New Year,” she told a guest who came in search of her. “He’s in the Philippines, making a picture. I've tried and tried to get through to him at his hotel but he’s not there,” Dinah con- tinued in a tearful voice. “He promised to telephone me here. I can’t understand it.” And then as the strains of “Auld Lang Syne” floated in from the living room, Dinah’s control vanished and tears spilled from her pretty brown eyes. The guest hastened to (continued on page 42) George and Dinah were always considered one of Hollywood's closest couples. 2
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High school is a romp for TV’s “Margie” but in real life it was something else again. For many reasons she was very often in tears By Nancy Anderson Cynthia Pepper, a happy high school girl in one of TV's happiest new shows, “Margie,” has a confession. “I love portraying Margie,” she says, “but I think being a real high school student is a terrible condition—for a girl, anyway. I cried at least half the time. about boys—I cried because'I wasn’t.a cheerleader 1 cried because I had only one cashmere sweater and other girls had several—and then I cried about boys some more. “I'm sure all high school girls suffer over the same things; don’t you agree? I have great sympathy for them.” Cynthia’s sympathetic understanding of teenage problems helps her to make her teenage portrayals on television believable. She’s been building a successful television ca: eer as a teenager, first a» Tim Considine’s girl friend on “My Three Sons” and now as Margie Remember the episode on “My Three Sons” when she bade Tim and high school romance goodbye as she prepared for college? Was it more poignant because Cynthia remembered a lar, real-life scene? It may have been. In high school she said goodbye to the boy with whom she had gone steady for some two years when he left for a prolonged stay in Europe. First love, almost always ending in farewell, is sweet and sorrowful, and Cynthia is still close enough to hers to remember. When Margie, in the episode that opened the series, threw herself across her bed and wept because (continued on page 26) Cynthia Pepper "1CHIED MV WAY THROUGH AG SCHOOL Cynthia has always looked younger than her age, 4 fact that permits her to portray a teenager in. “Margie.” 25
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% The lack of a cashmere sweater while in high school was felt most keenly by Cynthia, An optimist despite some disappointments, Cynthia says, “I believe everything works out for the best.” In portraying “Margie” on TV, Cynthia finds that she can often draw upon her real life experiences Cynthia Pepper continued she wasn’t as popular or as glamourously dressed as her best friend, Maybelle, Cynthia may have drawn from life again. I always looked younger than the other girl so people didn’t take me seriously,” Cynthia say “but I didn’t mind that—looking younger, I mean. I still look younger than I am. But I can remember suffering agonies, because I wanted to be the most popular girl in school. “And the cashmere sweater—that was another thing that plagued me.” At the high school Cynthia attended, cashmere sweaters were a status symbol. Like a warrior whose standing in the tribe was measured by the number of ponies he owned, the coed’s worth in the high school culture was weighed in fluffy knits. The exis of social clubs supported a strict caste system with the club members forming the upper strata. The non-members were the untouch: ables, And the girls’ clubs, although they took cog- nizance of good grades and good breeding, placed major importance on cashmeres. “The trouble was,” Cynthia recollects, shudder- at the memory, “I didn’t have a cashmere sweater. I was just a nobody without one, I thought. I was sure no club would ask me to join, and, al- though I had some good friends who weren’t club members, I didn’t want to be an outsider, too. “Oh, it was an agonizing thing, waiting and wondering whether T’d be chosen.” As it turned out, Cynthia's charm was all she needed to win the coveted club membership. “Of course,” she says now, “I shouldn't have been so wor d about the clubs in the first place. They weren't that important, but a high school girl wants to be part of the crowd.” But even after she was initiated into one of the groups, the lack of a cashmere sweater continued to plague Cynthia. I finally got one, though,” she continues. a job after T got ime store and earned the money to buy one. I don’t (continued on page 54) chool in a
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Does our attractive First Lady embody all of the virtues or is she a human wife with human flaws? What is legend and what is truth? bs 1 ts truth? Jackie Kennedy: “PERFECT” By Amy Lewis Ever since John and Jackie Kennedy moved into the White House, an myth, fostered by newspaper and magazine writers, has been growing. The myth? That this is the “perfect couple,” the “ideal marriage,” and that Jacqueline Kennedy is the perfect wife. Is the picture true? Is it fair? Is Jackie the perfect wife? ‘Those of us with long memories know that the idea that any couple is ideal can be harmful rather than helpful. Over the years such couples as Jimmie Rodgers and his wife, Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner, and Dinah Shore and George Montgomery have all been painted as people who possessed the formula for a. perfect marriage. And each of these marriages has gone down to defeat. Sometimes it almost seemed as if the term “perfect marriage” was the kiss of death. Now this same legend is being built up around our President and his First Lady, America has no royalty (continued on page 60) 2
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4m an unusual declaration of independence, Fabian has cast off his mentor, Bob Marcucci HE'S HIS OWN BOSS NO} By Mark Dayton There was something different about n. It was apparent in the way he sat sured, his demeanor so relaxed and grown- i. His posture so easy and as- up despite the still boyish appearance created by the mussed-up brown hair, th fire engine red pullover, the sandy levis and the highly-polished black Spanish boots. It to be seen in the quickness of thought, the readiness of ideas, the noticeable will- Ingness to take a position and assert his identity “As you know so well, and as I know so well,” Fabe said, coming out four square with his personal Magna Carta on dating, “when you go to an opening or something, your manager would rather that you go out with a me so that you get mentioned in the press. I'm not knocking it. It helps an awful lot, and it’s helped me. But These were sentiments plainly not un- lated to Fabian’s recent break with his discoverer, Bob Marcucei, who picked him up as an unknown and made him a vir- tual overnight star. (continued on page 32) oa FABIAN Fabian and Frankie Avalon posed happily with their manager, Bob Marcucci, before Fabian parted company with Marcucci. uM
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; = o o continued Although Fabian has taken great pains to make it clear that there are no bad feelings between them, the split startled the entertainment industr i coming on the heels of Tt was all the more eyebrow rai Frankie Avalon’s voluntary renewal of his pact with Mareucci when Frankie turned 21—which automati- cally made him free of any agreements entered into while he was a legal minor. For those privvy to Fabian’s sti secret that his termination with Marcucci—who super- vised him very-closely and was a stern, if devoted, ngs, it was no taskmaster—was a further expression of his deter: mination to have more to say about his destiny. “I started at 14- 5 and I needed so d willing tribute to Marcuc that,” Fabe pai Bob did a wonderful job with me. The thing is you have to be let alone in the sense that you have to make a few decisions on your own. It's not wrong, you know. You make the right move. I haven't been in the business # long time, but I’ve learned a lot in the past three and a half or four years. 1 know what's right and wrong. As far as the situation with Bob and myself, we're still the best of friends, We made a very happy settlement.” Fabian pointedly offered a family analogy to sup- port his feeling that to remain overly dependent on others—in your personal or professional life—was to court helplessness. “Like if your mother and father in a lot of cases —not my mother and father, any mother and father— will keep on doing things for you,” he cited his exam- ple, “will keep telling you what is right and what is wrong until you're about 22 years old, then when you go out by yourself, you're going to need someone to help you along. I feel I'll always need advice, but you f just to show what have to make some decisions you’ kind of personality you have.” (continued on page 51) oe oe The responsibility of making his own decisions now lies squarely on n's broad shoulders At the age of 19, Fabian believes he is already a man and wishes to be treated like one. aR Growing steadily as @ person and as ‘an actor, Fabian stars next in “Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacati While he feels ready to get married Fabian would prefer to \centrate on his acting career a 2 photos by Gene Trindl, Topix
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JANET ARGENTINE DLARY In her own words, Janet tells of her adventures—and misadventures— in the Argentine where Tony was Z filming “Taras Bulba” Janet, Kelly, 5, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18: We're off way to Argentina and what a way to start on our riding out the outskirts of hurricane Esther! When I read all those lovely brochures about ship travel, none of them included the bit about the little white kept in strate; spots throughout the ship for those who eventually need them. Fortunately, I must have been born with sea legs, for the rocking up and down id sideways all at once didn’t knock me y—having been a submarine man—did Wish I could say the same for the children, and their nurse! But the worst seems to be behind fine us now. They all look much chipper this morning So much so, in fact, I went exploring with the youngsters before my Spanish lesson—I am de- termined to speak Spanish by the time we reach our destination really looks like. to see what our floating home (continued on page 38) hoard the SS. Aten 4 just jamie, 2, Ll Gls Before their Pad rs oy ‘Atgentine and “Taras Bi Janet and Tony’ trip started cheerfully, but there were plenty of crises before it is eters
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PAUL BURKE He hadda have heart For 15 years Paul waged a bitter, uphill struggle to succeed in show business; his persistence paid off with the starring role in “Naked C: f 4 By Rose Perlberg It was a balmy summ: ing and in the small Southern civie theatre, the 17-year-old leading man and his ung lead- ing lady said their last lines and w for the curtain to fall. It didn’t. The leading lady had often declared, “If I ever have to ad lib, I’m going to faint ‘he stared in horror at the hover- ing curtain and promptly lived up to her promise, The leading man gulped, clutched his swooning partner and desperately ad libbed a spontaneous “ending” to the already ended play. He sweated it out for a good three minutes, until the delinquent stagehand was roused to action. The three minute “nightmare” was greenhorn Paul Burke's first acting dilemma. It wasn’t to-be-his last. In-the 18- years since, Paul has faced a good many career crises. Some he’s man- aged to solve by ad libbing. Others have been tougher and more persistent. But no matter what the “problem,” clear-headed Mr. Burke has tackled it with the same cool (continued on page 49) Paul and his wife of 15 years, Pegay, have weathered career hazards and raised three children, Paula, 13, Dena, 3, and Brian, 11.
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Janet Leigh’s Argentine Diary continued from page 34 Had a terrible fright later today when Kelly suddenly had spots all over her. Tony and I suspected chicken-pox, b the doctor assured us it was a reaction to all the seasick pills she took. Tonight was the roughest one I've ever spent—and I don’t mean the weather! I got trapped in the powder room. During 1a break in the floor show, I excused my- self, went to the ladies’ room, and’ after shutting the door, tried to flip on the ight. Only it wouldn't go on. There ‘weren't any windows, and when I tried to get back out of the door—it wouldn't ‘open! I was frantic and panicked. It was like being buried alive for 20 minutes, A little boy who'd been tailing us all day heard my screaming and banging and finally got a steward to let me out. I was completely hysterical! TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19: We ar- rived in Barbados—and it was better than anything I'd expected. It was such a beautiful sight, and the water such a vibrant color, it looked fake. The recep- tion we got was fantastic—and frighten- ing—because I didn't know from one minute to the next where Ginny and the children were! The mob closed in on Tony and me and literally swept us off our feet. I couldn't have made my way to the children if I'd been able to find them. It was a harrowing experience, But if T thought that was bad, the ride from the ship to the hotel was equally raising! Our native chauffeur drove like 4 fiend through the narrow streets. We missed a couple of other cars by inches, and haying the English right-hand drive didn’t lessen. my nervousness, ‘When we finally arrived at the hotel we gasped. It is the newest and biggest one here, and a marvel: completely open to the sea, with crystal chandeliers, marble floors! We didn’t stay long in the rooms, though, elegant as they were, but headed for the beach, The water was great—and as warm as our heated pool at home, Our exodus was followed closely by ® group of photographers, but it didn’t hamper our enjoyment. Driving back to the ship we gawked like true tourists at the women in bright- ly colored rags and dresses, carrying everything on top of their heads, with their hair in two out. The houses precariously—because buildings is where they keep their chick- ens and livestock, ‘Once on board again, Tony and the children took another swim—they're like fish—and we turned in early. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21: Umm, slept s0 well, and late too, as we moved our clocks up an hour last night. I ven- tured forth for # game of shuffleboard some of the passengers—have met ice people!—and act won one game. Tony had another call to the Cap- tain’s cabin—for a friendly game of poker —s0 that's the last we saw of him for some time. We made it to the Costume Ball, how- ever, and T must say—everyone on board ship must be a frustrated ham! They really had the outfits. I decided to go as 1 French kook. Tony did a crazy make-up and we really looked kookie. Two fel- lows and a girl dressed a la “Some Like Tt Hot"—the two men wearing women's clothes and the git playing George Raft —really hysterical. We ended up winning ‘one of the prizes! Kelly stayed up late, too, to see the movie “Snow W The Three Stooges” in the ship's , SEPTEMBER ren up for the I morning. I didn’t make it, Wish T'd seen ‘Today was really our big day—the day we received our summons from King Neptune. We polliwogs (those who haven't crossed the Equator before) were about to become Shellbacks. They started off by putting us in a jaiblike contrap- tion, and throwing cold water on us. Some was King Neptune and some other ween. What get-ups! There was a lot of pushing, screaming and name. This was our cue to bow before this (ha!) royal pair, and get « baby bottle on which to suck. I strongly suspect there was something stronger than milk in that hottle! Then they pronounced a verdict —and I really got it! Spaghetti and egg white smeared ALL over me! Ugh! The hildren weren't quite sure what was go- ing on, but apparently there were no bad after-effects on their little characters be- cause they ordered spaghetti for Sporting her gaucho outht, Janet eisiss Tony on location Liss his “Taras Bulba.” [As for me—T don't care if T never see the stuff again! TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26: Today was quite a day, and there's an understate. Tt started at six am—a ghastly in anything, but to be met by Brazilian Immigration officials, Customs officials, and 20 eager reporters and fans. all before even a bit of breakfast, war almost too much! But this was oaly the beginning. After packing like mad, we went up for another session with the press, and were greeted with photogra- phers, TV, newsreel—everything! In the back of my mind through all of this was the ponderous worry of how to sort out our 30 pieces of luggage and get the right ones transferred to the right places, and separated from the luggage we were taking with us to Sao Paulo! Joe (Edi- tor’s note: Joe Warren, Tony and Janet's personal secretary) saved the day there —he took’ the job over for us. I'd have died, I am sure, trying to manage that along with keeping track of the children in that mob of newsmen. The howling fans that awaited us as we struggled to the car were even more vehement than the ones at Barbados, We were told that there'd never been such a reception, and that reaching. wond say [hope so. ‘Our ride to Sao Paulo started wrong. Because of the mobs, the photographers and all, we grabbed the ble car. and took off. Unfor- was not the one the Governor Sao Paulo had ser he car we picked had stop! We switched to one of the photog- rapher's cars (they followed us in any describable. found Sao Paulo to be the fastest-rising city in the Western Hemisphere. There is more construction going on here 1 in any other city I've seen. I ble. Friday we fly out f ‘The afternoon was spent in term, we were so packed imagine. They keep asking ful people. even with a police escort, and a policeman outside our sui lino Matarozzo—truly a statuary throughout the owe and kind of ear they had available) and the bumpy ride the rest of the way is in- ture of very ancient Portuguese culture and the most modern buildings imagina- Buenos Aires. press conference—sandwich would be a better into the room, Where all the reporters, photographers, radio men, newsreels came from, I can’t ‘what coun- try we think does the best films. Wonder- and such enthusiasm—but rivate to insure @ few moments of privacy, we're nervous wrecks about now. Pleasantly so, but I could do with an hour’s peace and quiet. We dined at the home of Senor Erme- magnificent place, built around a huge formal garden done in the Roman manner with Orien- tal overtones, with priceless satiety grounds, After dinner Tony and I strolled through the grounds, saw the tennis court, pool, admjred the view, and then went to sre our host's “night club” downstairs. id hardly believe it when I saw che hi je spinnin pi ‘a q platters chairs around a dance floor—and yet with all of this, Senor Matarazzo is a charm: ing homebody. We didn’t give up 2:30 in the morning! WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: Tony and I slept late, felt wonderfully re- J, and then—wham! The day fell One layout after another, da: ing here and there, almost dragging peo- ple with us as we tried to get through the crowds. But no malice or rowdiness in all the hassle. In fact, the crowd to- day made a point of clearing a the children and me, and didn't tou a» we moved to the car, They'd shout, Best Vocals Gloria Lynne: “You Don't Have To Be A Tower Of Strength” and “I Will Fol- low You" (Everest) Miss Lynne, one of the better warblers he made the trip from the car to o iy” 1. scores room. He evea was photographed | sao’ ~Aprcipa d getting fitted in the new white suit he bought Our appearance at the theatre in the a neverto-be-forgotten ex: . Even with a 40 policeman cor. don about us we barely got in and out in and in general, looked a sight by the “Tower” coup! styled “I Will. Follo ick Jones: “Lollipops And Roses” and is Was My Love” (Kapp) The son of one-time movie ten Jones, Jack has inherited an Allan pres. ene piece! sive set of pipes. He puts them to good se on this 4 MONDAY, OCTOBER 9: Kelly really | paul Anka: “Lovelont” and “The Bells worried. Finally found a doctor | 41 My Wedding” be a very good one, | Paul and he checked Kelly out to report she bas German measles! Since none of us think we've had them, guess whet we'll be in for! (ABC-Paramount) Anka offers another double: barrelled broadside from his fertile imagination, performing with an ex- uberant knowled; ility that con. ‘notes a young man who's an old pro. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11: Tony Set “beuketosa Gt hie hea took me out to look at the ls Vaya his. cheltigd: something ald foc “Taras. Bulbs (Sweetheart) with something new (“Brotherhood,” from the new Broad way smash, “How To Succeed In Busi- ness Without Really Trying”) and succeeds admirably in both instances, f one. The castle, for instance, looks like it has been on top of that hill for cen- luries! We also went into town, Salta, to get our gaucho outfits, and learned we'd have to get our belts at the prison, because the prisoners make them. The little old lady who is sewing our outfite apologized that she didn't move quite as fast as she used to, and it would take her longer to make the five outfits we wanted. With some apprehension we ked her just how long, and she sighed, “About eight days . low about that and she must be well over 80! Best Instrumentals Peter Nero: “Maria “Theme From ‘Summer And Smoke’ (London) Nero's broad sweeping piano style is perfectly suited to the “West Side Story” love ballad, and the moody “Summer And Smoke” theme. “Maria” is particularly impressive, Ted Heath and his Orchestra: “Char- maine Cha Cha” and “Sucu Sucu” (London) ‘The swinging British-based Heath FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13!! Who cares? It doesn't scare me—hecause T don’t see how anything else could go wrong. Kelly | absolutely miserable, I can't get my help to understand I want the house ‘re renting outside Salto cleaned up— eally scrubbed down. There aren't ‘sheets to change the beds, I can't get a (continued on page 40) trans. lated to cha cha tempo, onc with it, The flip side, a smash in Europe, has been a light tap over here, but that doesn’t take away from its fine sound, Duke Eltington and his Orchestra: “Paris Blues Parts I & II” (Columbia) Reviews of new discs by PAUL SLOANE The Ellington entourage is right at home with the theme music from the Ellington-scored Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward starrer, It richly evokes I slice of life along Pa Eddie Heywood: “Dream Of Olwen” (Liberty) ris? Left ‘Good Earth” and ‘The old piano master Heywood brings his highly personalized keyboard style into full play as he ranges from the spiritually-angled “Good Earth” to the Best Albums Joey Dee and his Starliter Twist At The Peppermint (Roulette) Lounge” If you haven't been held incommuni- cado for the last six months you know all about the Twist, the Peppermint id Joey Dee. This LP, re. five” at the Lounge, is full a sound and fu 1g (we've been told) somethi The McGuire Sisters: “Subways Are For Sleeping” (Coral) ‘The girls, with a chorus and orchestra to pitch in at appropriate moments, the most of a score that is wide ranging in its appeal—some of the tunes are breezy; some are softly ro- c, others are tender and moody. Jonah Jones Quartet: Again” (Capitol) Jonah’s horn of plenty hies it “Broadway Swings self once more to the Apple for another batch ‘of hit show tunes—past and present. Jones & Co. are very much In Arms” or a ballad from own “Fiorella.” Erroll Garner: (ABC-Paramou Garner's secon: LP for this should prove even more popular than uptempo, be it @ bouncy anthem from “Babes Gotham’s “Close-Up In Swing” company his hit “Dreamstreet.” Along with such jazz staples as “All Of Me” and Louis Blues,” Erroll offers original, “El Papa Grande.” “St. a Latin END
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le ARGENTINE DIARY continued Jaundress and the gardener comes once in 15 days—which call I have yet to see. ‘The yard is a mess and a real danger for the children. T really know what is meant by the maiiana attitude, now Tf only we could get rid of the flies, and teach people to use screens and keep the doors shut, it would help! One bright spot, however. Yesterday was Tony’s first day’s work on “Taras Bulba,” and the shooting went well, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15: What should have been a nice, quiet, peaceful Sunday turned into a crisis. Jamie and Kelly ‘went to the park with our driver, Effrain, a very nice young fellow, and returned a short time later with Jamie screaming in pain, She'd fallen when Effrain was playing with her, and landed on her right shoulder. One. look was all I needed to know something was broken. ‘We finally got the doctor out to con- firm my fears, but he wanted to be dow bly sure so he dashed off to find a tech nician who could take an X-ray. T guess he searched every chapel and church in the area before he found the right man and dragged him out of a service. Soon we learned; she'd broken her clavicle. Now both of her shoulders are taped back and everytime she moves, she screams. Poor Effrain is more miserable than Ji ie, he feels so badly about the accident, and Tony was completely shaken up! It ‘was certainly one day I could have done without! WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18: Tony left for work at four this morning for a dawn shot. And today was Kelly's first day school, a clean, bright, happy place called the Peter Pan School. She'll probably speak Spanish in no time, and we won't know what under the sun she’s saying! ‘She has to wear little aprons to school— cute, Tony came home fit to be tied to- night, frst, because he'd expected me on the location and had forgotten to send the driver back for me, secondly, because, after getting up at that ghastly hour, be wasn't needed for the shot after all, and didn’t work all day Iong! THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19: Couldn't sleep worth anything, Found a monstrous red bug marching around in the bath- room last night, and it kept me jumpy all night Jong. Went to visit the family of two little children T met and discovered a family of seven living in a dirt shack of two rooms—along with their chicken: Twas appalled, and terribly upset. Then I met the children’s little brother, and discovered he was blind. He stands hold- ing onto a pole all day long in all that filth .. I am going to inquire around and see what I can do about getting him into a school of some kind. I couldn't hide SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21: We were invited to a barbecue at a general's place which is in an isolated spot not too from the castle location. When we drove up, we thought the servants’ quar- ters was the house—until we saw our error. The house is very nice, and very ‘old—about 300 years—and very Spanish. ‘The general was anxious to dance to the records a phonograph was churning up. and I gave a valiant try, but what can you do when the darn thing keeps changing from a rhumba to a tango and then goes into « jazz rendition of a samba? MONDAY, OCTOBER 23: Haven't felt like myself for the last couple of days, but it really hit me today. Argentina Tummy, Travelitis—whatever name you eg it, it’s gruesome! TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24: The doctor diagnosed this horrible condition of mine ‘as food poisoning. I feel poisoned all right! Sorry about missing my trip to the School for the Blind today. Was going to donate my portable typewriter to them. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25: Still feel- ing like something the cat dragged in and was lamenting my plight when | heard Kelly scream. Tore downstairs and found her with her face covered with blood! I grabbed a glass of brandy— ‘more for me than her—and then cleaned her up to learn she'd not broken her nose or knocked all her teeth out. In slipping on a rug, she'd hit her mouth and took 1 big chunk out of her lip. Oh, to be a mother . . . It would be easier to have these catastrophies happen to me than my chicks! THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26: Finally made it to the School for the Blind. How well they are doing. Checked into get- ting that little boy I saw into the school, and they said if he were mentally sound, there would be no problem, but they were not equipped to handle him otherwise. Tony says if the child can't get in, he'll get a fund started at the studio to help care for him, We just can’t let that poor child have nothing more out of life than 4 post to hang onto! FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2%: Poor Lydia, one of our maids, has acute appendi and was operated on tonight. Funny thing about hospitals here. They don't furnish the medicine. Friends or family members et the prescription, and go out to get the medicine. We're already trying to get our reser- vations for our return trip straightened out, There seems to be a little confusion —but why should this situation be any different? Some gay houschold tonight: Tony came home with a pulled leg muscle and in great pain, Lydia in the hospital, and when the doctor checked Jamie's jiving : Now have three days left, the men have come fo install the screens! Tonight was bad because of Jamie. The doctor had to ‘manipulate the shoulder agai when T started to wash my face, another cone of those red bugs lurched out of sink at me. I went screaming in to Tony. only to run i only in my nij T should retreat to the bug infested bath- room, or dash right on past him. [ dashed! shaking after this One calming aspect—I could get my mind off past events by curling up with « script of “The Manchurian Candid: my next film when we get back home TURDAY, OCTOBER 28: Watched ‘ony on location a bit yesterday, and de feel sorry for him with all the riding b has to do on this picture. His exp is a mixture of sheer terror, bravado an anger! Am myself again—between fee ing passably good and downright awiu Tony came home with a grumpy fe hecause some army official had died they didn't feel the army should b worked today, 0 Tony bad been all da on location for nothing. Of course, I've hunch he put that casino he's set up i his dressing room tent out there, to goo WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1: Another crisis—but at least one we can handle urselves, Our’ cook learned that Hirynners’ cook next door was maki wore money than she. This we dids know, cs checked to find out, Well, she she'd ted trudged by. asking for food. We al- » send them off loaded. Guess we're Known as a good handout—but that’s okay with me. THURSDAY, NOV IBER 2: A crisis on location today. Isn't there one every day ? Everyone. soldiers, gauchos, horses, I suppose—struck! And just when everything was set for the biggest weene of all! We learned this had been prearranged, and we also found out that re caught in the middle of a fight between the military of the regular go rament and the Communists, who have heen instigating all sorts of trouble for the company, the strike being one of the results. There was a meeting scheduled for seven tonight, which naturally didi jet underway until nine—and was every- fone on pins and needles! tt the General really quite pleasant. We’y certainly learned to eat a lot of str and interesting dishes, some of 1 very good! And, of course, there a others. . .. Brought Brad Dexter bom with us and he and Tony played Doris got back from Chile (Editor's note: wife. Yul’s also in “Tare Bulba” and they lived next door to Curtises throughout this time) brought Tony a present—a box of Krispies! Then we dragged Brad wit us to a children’s fashion show. W how he liked that! FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3: Sorry the boys have to stay on to finish up the picture, hut I. for one, am glad to be on my ‘way homeward. The weather is giving quite a send off—beastly hot. And a MONDAY, OCTOBER 30: Four da; before the children and I head hom Now it is raining. This weather is reall something. How they've managed to k a shooting schedule is a real feat. We to a home for retarded children, mentally retarded, others physically, i jiring, ind extensive trip. for we'll now have to myself. Then I followed this up with visit to the aged—the poorest. These poo forgotten people will haunt me all my life. They all hugged and kissed was more than I could stand. I cam home completely drained. Then came shock. The word is out there is going be a rail strike, This could mean don't leave... Tam ready to try the trip on burro back ‘nd by canoe! Kelly came home from tears, she hated to leave so. hhate leaving Tony, but it is just too diff- ult, under present circumstances, to have Tony constantly worrying. about work and us as well, particularly where the children are involved. Needless to say, was a very teary Ieavetaking! One TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31: The bo have run into a problem. The army assured them they would have two sand men for a week, and six last night, they were informed they have them. Some two-day holiday c ing up, and nothing, but nothing, feres then! Another intere li (Answer on page 63) ACROSS 1 Letter in alphabet 4 Anger 7 Cinems’s Cesar 13 “The Great —" (Tony Curtis film) 16 Actress Merle 17 What Tony showed in 40 down 18 “— Cory” (Tony film) 20 Pronoun 21 Middle name of both Tony's daughters 22 Female student 23 Tony's — was Manny Schwartz 24 Actor Ladd 25 Board (abbr.) 22 Tomy served in World War Il — a signalman 28 Tony's birth month 30 Dei 34 “Son — Ali Baba” (Curtis film) 35 Iceland coin 36 Gift recipients 37 Recent £ Direction (abbr.) ‘ony’s co-star in “Operation Petticoat” SBak tte ae DOWN 1e (Ger.) “Sweet — Success” (Curtis film) Butter or oleo (" (Tony comedy) Fr.) 0 Com Lic cendit 11 Love affair 12 “The Debant 3" (Cari ht ating. apparatus 15 Direction abl 23 More peau 24 Tony wae. 2 Life ary, 26 Trish 28 Mrs, pases, Curtis 35 Persian princes 36 Opera singers eR dy? (Carin film) ee 48 “Criss Cross” was Tony's irshal Dillon 2eeuseees,
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Behind Dinah’s Marriage Crack-up! continued from page 22 comfort her. “I guess,” Dinah said in a voice muffled by tears, “George and I have been separated too much . . . apart too long... Was it that old familiar Hollywood story—too much distance between # hus- band and wife pursui —that caused singer from actor George Montgomery four days before they would have celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary? Or was there an even more startling reason behind the surprise announce- ment? For months the Hollywood grape- vine had been shaking with rumors of an eyebrow-raising friendship between 45- year-old George and a 19-year-old blonde beauty, Diane McBain—a charmer only five years older than George and Dinah's own daughter, Melissa, A third party is trouble enough when a marriage is teetering. But what happens when the original marital duet expands to a quartette? That is what apparently hap- pened in the Montgomery marriage. “If you want to talk about that Dinah ‘Shore-George Montgomery bust-up, bet- ter speak to that beautiful Israeli sexpot, Ziva Rodann, who may know more than she wants to tell right now,” said noted Broadway columnist Ear! Wilson. OME Hollywood marriages strain ai a crucial point, when a husband de- velops both the seven-year itch and a roving eye. Other Tinseltown marriages begin to disintegrate as soon as one partner jets to stardom while the other drops step by step down the ladder of fortune. In some degree, the Montgomery marriage suffered from career inequality. But it was only when George apparently began to kick up his heels publicly this past year that Dinah made her painful decision: to end the marriage that was, Because she was before the public on TV so much, Dinah kept her woes to herself. in effect, no marriage at all. According to a friend who asked not to be identified, “Dinah, to whom marriage 1 sacred thing, did not make her final divorce decision until that Friday, De- cember Ist, only minutes before her TV show went on the air. She's always beea against divorce so you may he certain she gave the matter the most careful delibera- tion. She and George were in their new Trousdale Estates mansion. She told him her decision just before she left the house for NBC’s Burbank studio. Afterwards, she gathered her daughter, Missy, and adopted son, John David, who is eight and went into hiding in her Palm Springs home, Next morning, there were the head- lines, And so an 18-year marriage, that started out 20 promisingly, becomes just another unhappy divorce statistic. Yet, in this case, it was the only solution.” Co-workers on that Friday show said the 44-year-old blonde star gave no indi- cation of the split, They had to read it in the newspapers. “This is the wildest sur- prise,” confided one stunned performer. “It hit all of us like « bombshell. Dinah sang her songs and clowned during the show without letting anyone glimpse the strain, Not once during rehearsal or since did we suspect it. Later, she waxed a Capitol album of her all-time hits and didn't turn « hair at the final number: ‘It’s So Nice To Have A Man Around The House.’ What a gal! All that money, that gorgeous $250,000 mansion, two darling youngsters, the No. 1 spot in TY. Frank- ly, I'd thought that Dinah and George were Hollywood's happiest couple.” ‘Other, more informed sources, knew for a year that Dinah was considering di- vorce; that earlier, both she and George had been trying to stay together. And so these insiders discounted the smiling singer's stories to the press of her happi- ness as she visited with them in the vast glassenclosed living room of the splen- did new modern house, one of the town's overlooking all of Beverly Hills. “ treasure my husband and chil- dren as a gourmet treasures his food. I am surrounded by love,” Dinah said. ‘She always believed that people in tele- vision must keep their private lives un- marked by scandal even more so than those in the motion picture business be- cause TV stars are before the public week after week, So it’s understandable that she kept her problems to herself. Some- times criticized for her eternal smile, she has answered with a look of near aston- ishment: “What am I supposed to do— snarl at everybody? If I'm going to cry Tl do it in the privacy of my own home.” Tt appears that America’s most success- ful television performer had plenty to ery about. Even though, in a Gallup. poll of the ten women most admired by Ameri- cans last year, Dinabrubbed elbows with ‘Jacqueline Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower protect, would be so open in their liking: for each other. In fact, I heard rumors to: and to give up the tennis games they en- joyed. After all, young Diane is a ‘hot high school, the magazines already write of her as being a threat to every gal with ‘a guy in Hollywood. She neatly lifted ‘Troy Donahue from his more-or-less per- manent sweetie at that time, Nan Morris, and was involved in a row with Nan. Diane knows about the talk of her being a femme fatale, junior grade, but doesn’t bother her. ‘I don't see why would worry about me,” she says. ‘I can date only one man at a time.” But when Diane was only 17 and new to studio, she was being whispered about during the filming of her first movie, ‘Ic Palace.” F COURSE Diane is pretty enough: to raise any male’s temperature.’ Practically a newcomer to films, 1ate_ merely “Parrish” and “Claudelle Inglish” well as TV's “Surfside Six.” A vivid, hlue-eyed blonde, she’s been called most beautiful girl in Hollywood and three beauty contest cups to prove it been linked with a dozen of H Beymer, Lee Patterson, Chad Everett, then switched to older ones like rans (before his marriage) and Jerry (Marilyn Maxwell's ex-husband). young Mark Nathanson, son of a aire real estate operator, but Dinah and George with their two children Melissa and John David, in happier days. new wardrobe in New York” given Diane by the smitten Feldman. The gorgeous Diane herself loves to babble on about the letter she’s received from the young Aga Khan who wants to meet her, and her other beaux, bat never a word will she say about George Montgomery. Ziva Rodan, however. is much more talkative concerning George. A young Israeli actress, long-legged, slim, she loves to wear white stretch-pants to show off her saperb figure. In Israel she'd been 4 sergeant in the army and in this country she’s had a small role in “The Story Of Ruth.” and other films and has guested on a few television programs. An Oriental beauty with creamy skin, . jet black id huge brown eyes, Zi slight accent that adds an exotic flavor to her talk. (“I'm trying to lose it but men tell me it makes me irresisti- ble.") Apparently it has, for pitious and publicity-seeking ac 2. has dated many men, even broke her engagement to blond Skip Ward. 23. when dark Cary Grant, 58, began to ro- nce her. Cary gave her a gold bracelet and when she went to the Philippines to become George Montgomery's leading lady in “Samar,” Cary sent her four Aresses. It would appear that Ziva forgot nt's charms when she discovered the handsome ex-cowboy hero, George Mont- gomery. For four months they worked on the film which George produced, directed, starred in and co-authored. ‘When they finished work on the rugged back-country Philippine locations, the company returned to Hollywood but ind George unaccountably traveled to Tokyo and Hong Kong. “We were only good friends,” the exotic brunette actress recently explained. “George had dinner with me in New York a week before the divorce story broke. Then he confided that the situation with regard to his mar- riage looked very bad. I had no ides they would part. But George seemed to know something was going to happen. “It may be that a European magazine made things worse for the Montgomerys’ marriage. It printed a story that my Ital- speaks ian beau, Prince Orsini of Rome, arrived Hong Kong and found me lunching with George and that the Prince sug- rally, American columnists picked it up. Possibly Dinah saw the original story or the column items. “Really, George was always talking about Dinah. Why, I even helped him pick out a very expensive vicuna coat for her. T'm most annoyed that I've been called a home-wrecker. All I want is to start a home of my own. Like any single girl I want a husband of my own, too, not someone else's, So I wouldn't be inter- ested in Dina Be that as it may, it is apparent that absence didn’t make Dinah’s heart grow fonder. According to one i na think we can discount all those ‘other woman’ stories. The simple fact is that the divorce happened because Dinah and George have been separated so much due to their professional careers. That's the only theory that makes sense, He was half a world away for months making films; she went alone to Europe to film three of her TV shows. They grew so apart that when they finally came back together in October wlien George ap- peared on Dinah's show they were like strangers. Both are devoted to Melissa, nicknamed Missy, and John David, called Joby. But it wasn’t enough to keep the marriage goingeThey finally decided on divorce because there was nothing else 10 —or they would have done it, But T must say, during all the time I knew Dinah, I never saw any evidence that she was unhappy. If she was, she did « mas terful job of keeping it from everyo IHOUGH the marriage of Dinah and ge seemed, on the face of it, one of the dreamiest in the land, it under- went stresses throughout the 18 years, When they married, many people thought they were misfitted and gave the marriage @ year. The drivingly ambitious young a ranch to seek his f 2 stunt man in the movies still a farmer,” he once said with quiet pride. Fox tried to build the rugged cow- hand into « drawing room star. The treat- ment didn't take and he never quite made stardom. His feature roles have been mainly in low-budgeted movies. When he displayed a talent for making Early American furniture reproductions, he opened a factory. But he still hankered for show business. So last year he tried a western TV series which unfortunately folded in a short time, Then he sold the factory and helped finance his own Phil- ippine movies. A man of varied talents, George not only starred in and directed it, but shot stills, helped write the music, did the editing and cutting. In building their newest home, George also was de- signer, contractor and builder. A woman of teeming ambition, Dinah once said, “I wanted George to go to school and study architecture and I would take a course in painting at the same time. But George felt it would take too long for him to get his degree and said anyway, he loves act- ing better. You have to do what makes you happy.” Tt wasn’t easy for George to find him- self-called Mr. Shore—an appendage of asn't easy to live with at I'm striking for is an eight-day week!” As the youngest of 15 children on a Montana ranch, George had been spoiled by his doting family. In Hollywood, his good looks and quiet charm made him popular. He'd dated Ginger Rogers and was engaged to Hedy LaMarr when Dinah chanced to see one of his films, “I snagged him,” laughed the velvet-voiced singer, “but I really never used aggressive techniques. I just made up my mind that he was going to be my husband. And that’s how it happened,” FTER they married, George was ways courteous and sweet to Dinah but one sensed it was difficult to be the husband of such a great star. Once Dinah was asked to sing for the visiting Duke and Duchess of Windsor. She was so overcome by the honor that she declared, “Tl never be able to sound a note.” George looked fondly at his wife and said, “Never mind, honey, I'l go back to work.” This was a family type jest in Hollywood where many hushands are little more than domestis s true that Dinah Shore is one of the most beloved women in Hollywood. “I'm not allowed to watch Dinah Shore on TV," a Hollywood wit once quipped. ‘She's so sweet she'd ruin my diet.” But there were times when her temper showed. It’s been said that occasionally she burtles a hair brush across her dress ing room in fits of private rage. Dinah de- clared this wasn't true. “I'm not a shout- er.” she said, “though I may be a sulker.” And she sulked when George mentioned that he'd had the same workers in furniture factory for years. “I suppose,” Dinah snapped, “George is pointing out that we had six housekeepers in rapid succession before I found one to suit and T haven't yet found a satisfactory cook.” During her ten years with Chevrolet— “one of the most enduring love affairs in TV"—Dinah Shore worked very hard and she still does. “I never get to see my home before dark,” she confided some time ago, It's been months since I have. Weekends ‘we go to Palm Springs where I play ten- nis all day to unwind from the grind. In fact, the only meal George, the chil- dren and I have together, is breakfast. Today Dinah breakfasts in a lonely mansion of glass, great white-quartz fire- places, waterfalls, seven bathrooms, a 60- foot avocado tree growing right in the house ant 8,750 square feet of living ace. Luckily she has her two youngsters to keep her from intolerable loneliness. END a
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The Secrets Of Horst’s Love Life continued from page 19 owned a wheat mill, and played with hher in the wheat fields. They laughed and romped, and told stories and dreamed dreams—like children adrift in a fable. “Then,” Horst recalls, “we all left, We were taken away to another part of the country, and we were separated. There I suffered. I missed her very much. I missed playing with her. It was strange feeling.” ‘OT until he met Miriam Bru, a gamin French beauty—dark-haired like the little girl in faraway and bitter- sweet_memory—was Horst to know a love that moved him so deeply. But 1 time he had more to say about his dest id Miriam did not get away. She be- came his wife. In the long interim—between the girl with the beautiful penmanship and the gallic actress he married—were Horst Buchholi's other loves. His secret loves. ‘They merge in memory, vague and unde- fined—a bridge between two surpassing ‘emotional milestones. “T cannot say I was never in love again until I met Miriam,” Horst smiles sheep- ishly, thus removing himself from sus- picion of purity or emotional paralysis. “Oh yes, I was in love many times—and it was not only with brunettes. I like brunettes, but I like blondes, too. Now,” he adds with a pointed smile in Miriam's direction, “I like brunettes.” However, the intermediary loves, the transitional loves left no mark. They were amours that perished in their own evanescence, not in the pain of parting. “If Twas ever heartbroken,” Horst searches dubiously among his recol- Tections, “it does not come to my mind, If I was ever heartbroken I got over it. T might recall it if T hadn't been in love after I had been hearthroken—because then maybe you suffer that much that you don’t want to take it another time.” Horst smiles musingly as he talks about it, speaking in a pleasant, energetic voice, his light accent more continental that Teutonic. “What I mean,” he goes on, anxious to make his meaning clear, “is if you're really heartbroken, if your heart is shat- tered. you just suffer that much that you don’t want to go on any more. I never felt that way. F may have had little dis- appointments—probably yes, but they were so small that I don’t recall them. I was emotionally involved, perhaps, but then I was lucky. If it was broken up. 1 always broke it up.” He offers those reflections with pain- ful honesty, not with bravado. Nor would it barden the credulity of his rapidly multiplying legions of distaff admirers to accept this account. Moviegoers the world ‘over have fallen vicariously in love with the Horst Buchholz they have seen in “ “Tiger Bay.” “The Magnificent Seven,” “Fanny” and currently in “One, Two, Three.” They would assume it as an’ axiom that when a romance ended the decision would be made by the deer-like German star who has been hailed—Iike it or not—as a continental Jimmy Dean. His falling in love with Miriam, how- ever, was not in the classic Hollywood tradition. Tt was neither « matter of ani- mosity at first sight—as erroneously re- ported in some American quarters—or of love at first sight, as it was long ago in an East Prussian classroom. They met while playing opposite each other in the German film version of Tol- stoy’s “Resurrection.” Since falling in love in Europe apparently always, if ever, the instant confection it suppos- edly is in the United States, they de- veloped no acute immediate feelings either of hostility or of affection. Only ater the picture was completed did a chance reunion in Rome give them the opportunity to know one another better— and react romantically. Horst’s emotions were slow to swim to the surface, but that is not to say he didn’t come to rhap- sodize over the delicate, soft-spoken French girl who won his heart with her piquant ways and warm empathy. It was during Horst’s first extended Hollywood stopover that he reflected on the pleasantly remembered events that took him out of circulation. We sat in his bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Horst, wearing a green polo shirt and mustard continental slacks, was sprawled comfortably on the couch. His wi of the glass-topped cocktail table. They were a charming. easy couple— Miriam, full of undisguised adoration, and Horst no less brimming with affec- tion. Despite her enciente condition, Miriam insisted on being the gracious hostess and came from the kitchen with a tray of cookies and tea. The latter she poured, European style, over a strainer, and it was delicious. “I'd been mining for jewels for » long time,” Horst waxed lyrical about the joy of losing his heart to Miriam. “and I came up some precious stones once in a while. But all of a sudden I made - I found the big stone—and Miriam squealed with girlish delight as the glowing metaphors fell effortlessly from Horst’s smiling lips. “You have to be able to identify « bad stone from a very good one.” he re- marked, pleased with the seeming aptness of the analogy. “And I think I could do that. I found out that she was the most precious stone I ever came up with. Not only in the beginning. but after I got to know her more and more.” the enormity of his attrac- tion for Miriam fully struck Horst. “As soon as I finished the picture,” he recalls, “I called her on the phone to come over. When she came I said, ‘We're going to be married.” Just like that. And we did. By then I had a lot of time to think about it. The picture took me four months, Over that period you have a couple of days to think, and I thought it would be wonderful to’ marry her if she wants me.” Nor did Horst, once stirred by desire for wedlock. have any qualms about the surrender of a bachelor freedom that, due to his abundant charm and mesmer- izing looks. had been more than passing rewarding. “I was not bothered by giving up my freedom, not at all.” he wooshed the thought aside as of no moment. “I've done that. As for success with .women, Te had it, and it was a wonderful time, Now this can't go on forever, because T don’t want it to. It gets boring. “There was nothing new to the life I had. T had my work on one side, and I hotel rooms on the other side. And irl Friends, and some real friends. It was just—it was always in a way the same, T could have carried on for another ten years, but it was nothing new.” He fell to exph i. in. a retrospec he felt—the emotions and aspirations brought alive by his feelings for Miriam. “There are many other things in life which I want to know,” he explained further why it was no problem to put less pleasures of bachelorhood. “Marriage and living with a woman, the wife: the mother of my children, is another part of my life. And I wouldn't miss it for anything in the world. That's why I went to marry with Miriam. Maybe it could have been later. but I had had it Getting married. nevertheless, was not a coolly planned step in Horst's meta- morphis. The logic in the pattern came ‘only with later analysis. While it was happening it was almost as if he were impelled by mystic forces that told him with Miriam he could make a life that would be full. and that now he was ready for such a li IRIAM elicited in him a feeling he hadn't experienced with woman. He felt that it was Miriam, Miriam alone. whom he wanted to be the mother of his children. So three years ago, with love in his heart and the dream of children in his mind, Horst Buch- holz married Miriam Bru—the German and the Frenchwoman offering « hopeful augury for the future as they ignored the old antagonisms of their countries. “Now I didn’t want so far children,” Horst emphasized his awareness of the uniqueness of his affection. “No, never that feeling. Suddenly with Miriam I wanted very much children. I think this was the main point. If you want to have children, really want to have them—you are not going around avoiding them.” Curiously, as Horst spoke so apprecia- tively of his gracious young wife carry- ing their firstborn, her beauty—fragile and compelling though it was—was not among the virtues he thought to extol. He obviously was concerned with the woman rather than the facade—however lovely. “She actually had the qualities of a wonderful wife,” he probed further. “She had the quality to make my home com- fortable, to be intelligent. to surpass bad ituations in life, as this can happen once in a while. And she had » big heart and feeling toward me as I have a big feeling toward her.” Miriam, nonplussed by Horst’s shame- less homage, busied herself pouring more tea, but there was no concealing the blush that came to her cheeks. ‘She makes my life happy,” Horst said “We haye the same tastes. We found that out. We practically de- pend on each other. We trust each other. When she sees things I'm sure I like Cieeiea poopie in Shea happen.” Moreover, their compatibility cut far beyond their common background of mo- tion picture acting. It reached deep into their insides—where they lived, and where once they trembled as war-trauma- tized children, “I don't want someone to fight,” Horst nkly of his marriage expect ions. “We are so comfortable together. We are relaxed all the time. This i doesn't exist too often. We talked a lot before we got married. “We talked about many different fe Thad. She was away from her mother for quite a while, which I was. Let's forget the fighting of the war, who started the war. But he had i because the Germans attacked France. The sit silat toes Goment oo oe were both war children, war casualties. We both had the same emotional expe- rience in common. When we talked we felt for each other.” From fear and separation in childhood to whatever compensations might lay in acting they had a bridge and a bond that held them fast. “Having been in the same profession, the same business,” Horst continued, “that produced certain facilities about things, You have another language. 1 don’t mean the phony language of movie people. In this business you see more things as human beings. Otherwise I of it” ‘Still it was no small satisfaction to jorst, and he admitted it readily, that iriam has withdrawn from acting, leav- ing the field without contest to him. “The husband is the man,” Horst said in a tofie suggesting the point was not arguable. “This takes a lot of intelligence and taste and diplomacy to surpass sit tions that would arise in a marriage between two actors. They should know about that before they get married—al- though this didn’t come up with us until after the marriage. “This is the most wonderful part of because she gave it up immediately Maybe she suffered a couple of days, week. You know it would come up, and she would say, ‘Oh, why not.’ Then it has “Miriam and I had the same kind of life, x0 we understand each other.” says Horst. disappeared completely. This makes me py that she's given it up #0 easy.” Miriam nodded vigorously, offering un- solicited assurance that her retirement was not a form of martyrdom. “Naturally you suffer in marriage if you work because you can't be wife and actress,” she shrugged with a reasoning smile. Before, when I was actress, when I come to my home after working all day, I'm tired and I want to go to bed. Now Iam married, I like to prepare my home for my husband. I like to be every moment for him. If L work, I will suffer fery moment because I can't be with him. I get more happiness being wife. Being actress all the time I will say, ‘My goodness, why I am not with him? It’s not possible. It's too different life.” What pleases Horst so much about Miriam's attitude is that it reflected her own thinking. It was not a matter of yielding to his pressures, although to be sure her decision dovetailed with his wishes. “Well,” he said candidly, “we talked about it, we both did. I thought it was much better not to go on with her career. I would have preferred it this way. She could have disagreed, and it would not have been a problem. I didn't press. No, no—I didn’t press. I was very happy about it.” Horst and Miriam almost chorused heartfelt assurance that they didn’t know what it was like to have « serious im- passe—and that they’ never have been distressed by the mild ones. Yet, while Miriam willingly acceded to Horst’s desires, she did not seem so much submissive as she was responsive. She listened with pride-filled approval as Horst spoke, and often—lapsing from one language to another in mid-sentence— offered her own enthusiastic addendum, If he was the star, she was his willing and shining satellite. She felt included— and she was. “I trust Miriam so much,” Horst said with a gesture of finality, “that if she stands on a point and won't give in, I know I must be wrong. There must be something wrong in my thinking if she really stands on it, That just shows how much I believe in her judgment and in her taste and her instinct. If 1 didn’t, 1 ‘wouldn't give in, and I wouldn't bother to think whether I'm wrong. That is the way to solve problems if they ever occur.” A problem occurred right on the spot. With Miriam due to give birth in a few months, the matter of the baby's sex and the necessity to shop for baby clothes came up. It provided an unexpected test of their talent for accommodation. “L think it’s going to be a boy,” Horst nodded, “but we take a girl as well. I prefer a boy.” “But I know when we have a gitl,” Miriam put in conciliatingly, him erazy for her.” “L always think,” “when I'm somethi boy will be grown up. ‘There was no clearcut decision—nor any semblance of acrimony. ‘Then came the question of a. suit color for baby clothes. “That I have not think about,” Miriam commented, surprised that she hadn't. “I will take blue because it's good for a girl, and it's good for a “No,” said Horst, “You take white.” There wasn't even time to think about it, Horst had spoken on reflex. If ever there was a cue for an embarrassed silence, that was it, But there was no lence, embarrassed or otherwise. “I take white if you want me to,” Miriam said. Horst Buchholz swung upri a beaming smile, “You see how we solve our problems! he exclaimed happily. Did they always solve their problems that easily? “Yes, most of the time,” Horst replied. “Lam very lucky. Very lucky.” END He . flashing
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- ther ppcciga sp apendty / time. Not necessarily people on relie! the pilot light goes out?” instance. Maybe he'll usually people who'd be too proud to T said, “You ask your husband to get leave his toys lying on the floor, I say, take relief. My secretary and I sit down —_up and fix it. That's what I'd do.” “Todd, pick those toys up, or you know and write letters in the children’s names what will happen.” Todd may say. ‘I thanking those who send gifts and telling don’t want to pick them up.’ ‘Then I'll them where the gifts have gone. office since he was seven years old. He have to spank you." “Periodically.” Debbie went on, “the didn't have the advantage I had of being “He may say defiantly, ‘I don’t care,’ children and I go over their toys. and raised in a family where everything in Isn't that asking for a spanking? “All we give away a lot of them. It is not the home is done by members, My father right, Todd,’ I say, “go to your room, I'll geod for children to have so many. If was a carpenter, you know. When he be right up to give you a spank children have too many toys or dolls, made cabinets and chairs, with, Having once threatened to do it if he hat | Want For My Children continued from page 21 Todd were asleep in their separate bed- Debbie’s fame, how can she bring Car- rooms. rie and Todd up to be normal, well- The den was an oasis of calm, too. a eee - I's a pleasant room in which to relax, py, welladjusted adults? furnished in contemporary style, but with Spreading a delicate doily under her Louis XV touches. Lamps and chairs glass, Debbie took a sip of Coke, swal- are contemporary but not exaggeratedly lowed it, then went on. “The responsi- . modern, There are a Louis XV desk, end bilities of a movie star mother are the table, and marble coffee table, There's a same as those of any mother.” 4 ; © r they become fickle about them and dor him in his shop. Though I can't do car- disobeyed, she has to go ahead with it, piece of Rodin sculpture in the room, a When Debbie was making “It Started have a growing love or attachment for pentry, I can do a lot of other fix-it. Sometimes Carrie sulks because Deb- Picasso on the game table, On the wall With A Kiss” in Europe about two years one toy or doll in particular. yourself things. hie won't take her shopping. Usually hang striking paintings. In one corner ago, she was away from the children “Every few weeks I sit down with the “I put most of the locks on the doors Debbie takes her when she can, but when are book shelves, with a nice mixture of for about five weeks. Even though she children and say to Todd, ‘Todd. -you in this house. When the float in the bath- she says “no” the children have learned ‘contemporary books like “Mila 18 and called home every evening to find out 4 haven't played with this truck for two room broke I fixed it, When the wash- that she means it. At one time Carrie various classics, how Carrie and Todd were, the phone “Harry is wonderful with the children,” y 2 rohges ; the weeks. Don't you think it's time to give ing machine stopped I took the hose off used to explode into a torrent of tears vhteen Debbie leached chen rit calls couldn't assuage het loneliness She says Debbie. “He's a companion to them.” it away to some child who doesn't have and cleaned it and the filter. It took me when Debbie said she couldn't. come workmen,” Debbie Iaughed. “It's been missed them so dreadfully she made up wien” Debbie, inal erlang hy aia mande.ee so many toys?” Or I'll say to Carrie, about three minutes to get the washing along. The moment Debbie went out of ¥ it the children love ng her min« never again eee arling, it's been weeks since you machine going. I couldn't get a repair- the door, the tears stopped. They were time ago I explained to them that Harry them for more than a week Saas Megat se hey mca played wi doll. Don't you think man that day. If one had come, he prob- fulfilling no useful purpose. A calew. was buying us a new house so that we'd Recently, when she made “How Tea Seated ie eaikiy (be we should give it away?’ ably would have taken about four hours lating minx, that Carrie, but a very all be a family together. 1 promised biog ee ote ergs eM Na eal es mega “Toda is more deeply sentimental and and sent « bill for $40. We've been billed lovable ‘one. ; Carrie and Todd, *You'll each have your location wi mtucky Taig of bem Todd: ete otk says “Yes' right away. Carrie says "Yes.’ to death in this new house, Just imagine ‘The children play together without own room, done the way you like it.” In rado. a ae ory a ifs hates Tey gee. haireola too, but takes a little longer to say what the bills would have been like if any obvious jealousy. They Teach, the other house they'd had separate It took us six months to make penken Wien Teal tee cece eet Sometimes I think Todd shames her into I couldn't do anything myself!” + Tot toys—something like blackbourds, rooms, but they were really infants’ picture,” said nal TH rape pean thing Ma's pedal ok Ws canes atoeh giving things away. Not that she’s selfish. mly they're white, One of these white rooms, They hadn't been changed since sign for a picture that might take th it of to Harry. Perha he bac ea but she’s more eager to hold on to pos: EBBIE'S realistic, particularly where boards comes with magnetized letters; , the children were very small. ‘They'd long Tt font didn give me enough time tof wo Harry. Perhaps all be has done sessions, her children are concerned. She's the other with magnetized numbers, too young. then to be consult to be wi children. is to 3 “Carrie's favorite doll is ‘You pull a su about the decorating of their rooms, “When we were on location, I'd get up has hit the nails right on their heads Chatty Cathy. not pretending her children have wings. Using the Teacher Tot with letters, at four a.m., and I didn’t get home until and driven them right into the board. wg and Chatty Cathy says She's delighted that they're normally Carrié learned her ABC's, Now the one a : about ten different things, like, ‘I'm well-behaved, and equally pleased be- wi Todd HEN you ate fire, like Gertes”” sx oc deretiaithe © Cores pal = Fle deinen ik xorl — bungry «want to gotobed ..Tlove cause they're normally Iichievous at laughed Deble bale aa sai ie softly, “you sudden- , circumstances, & ST oS an ee you.’ Carrie carries on conversations times. For a child never to be mivchiev- an played wit § ly become very much of calpain ay i Jc bask had _ Gee — aol were ee GS ax with her. ea 5 he ae out cass E aeatie their eg Tot so, Kare ret And think you are very grown up, SA Se rd ‘Conn, Haney, book ok ita Be ee | know you're hungry.” she wil She doesn't believe in over-permis- to name the letters. Whenever he na Pere ae trae wee ee aes ee oie Win Won te ceekn,"Welbisa wid eyes tee keakent oan Met og fue have to walt “ul sivenom, leting a child gt away with a letter correctly she'd ay, ‘Ton that ‘aie! ph mane girlish pei Sit ais WRibe bite wate Giemendous: eok'et what | have Balke’ Came chal =i neal bpteplogd re re = ea adead Relay. Seen eit yo sires ink and white, And tate exactly what ly long. When I got through working, 1 cant go 10 see it Because of our sex, do but not until then . are punished, mostly by isolation and. ) the got—a fourposter bed wih a white was so tired T didn't fel lke playing ois Canis ead't bene wr noe : food unack onthe bottom.” she old me, “When Caries tars came, Todd asked canopy over the top, trimmed with rose- with the children, - played with a Pistar site dotiaeeayt ed esbun Car “Town doesn’t really need store toys “Discipline is very lual for chil- her to identify different numbers, then to Peer There re ling craig vas’ seyret Sn Twas len sted, seerhy, Goat pe ote le te inorder to have a wondrtal ine. dren. To Carico be it sone i write them down. Carrie painsakingly Bee Vereen okie ean ! maybe only one—and “her. Todd may come ia. Carrie will then |e ale hare Hoses pha sol arprreag irik Salt algal 2 ae nase ob pecans Yom, nactrea penne ba Sy ae Bee, a t coce Sa ~l tome carpenters were streaming in and out of ham, loves to perform, loves to be with ‘Her brother looked at the serawl ad : i : ‘ ae . "Todd. go play with your toys. if ‘ other | . ities hea ry ke the reat months to complete.” aie Bog home, Todd will go bed ei ten ennee cenmion: ace 7 deliberately breaks something pesiars'4 Se Ss SS ee de ting In. ep eee eee ae al aee aay. | meena array bene, Teiid wil . Mrs. Karl?" [hadn't but Thad a pretty or has a temper tantrum or sulks, 1 “Carrie rejected the praise, ‘You're “A soldier room,” he sai dificalt being both) mother and lather Hens tne of Todd's becke He and Carte. ‘good idea who had. I asked Todd if he'd spank her occasionally. Not.often. I am just saying that because I said it.’ Maybe some mothers wouldn't have to the children? bee eatifely diferent, Beek: Ha tate played with it and he said he had. not opposed to spanking when it's ab- It’s hard to get most children to bed. sa Gothic ide She and sles EBBIE didn't evade the question. alll the Doctor Suess books. Hers are ey ee ee te . leds Voapphed eld lac lg arsipaber Pacreaitrr ae es it vie l. an 4 . sin} ft a thor spanking when he was a play on the children's weal . whick i i She looked at me directly. and said typically feminine. i it H i foe ashy Kar, boop feelings to wiN candor “1 dash kate to face at) °T am dcighted shat yin Todo op fi ea ah ogee ampeg eerie ey Weetsh Todd's dream A soldier forme'n prohlos shy ladgr,‘Belore may voatriage all hoy ond my gicl all girl. Todd is Mikcii ee ‘Whn Dostio's orith'tha ebderer, eed) handsome lamp base. Then there's « to Harry. I felt I had that responsi beaticad prgerpeen Ph “Parents who never spank chikiren says to them.""Let's surprise mama, Why ; oe Pods raat ire chi Toesess ollcecs aad dl tee tea “Ie allomed to do that?” T asked. aren't necessarily doing them favor don’t you gt into bed by yourselves? room is a collection of wooden soldiers. dren. them J inslaaen age sais ack i." laughed Debbie. “He has a work ildren want to feel parents are the ‘That will surprise her.” (CR ater tread tl erent RES pln Pg Cee bench, but He wobbly. As soon bosies. It gives children a sense of So the children get into bed without and blue theme. almost three ye pst he AM aoe as I get a chance, Ill repair it for him security to know that you can take care further coaxing, Debbie comes up after: 7 1 Eis Mian Sree meal Al aan econ Aden MM Acer eee geee 2S. « fix it so it's stable.” of anything that comes up, protect them wards. Being an actress, she can make Sar Debbie “they knoe Hany ought The" abtidret "Are: appt, ‘They-love ° . bie Tosle'any two cildria shel evel Really?" T asked. [rom everything, even their own misbe- her eyes look large and wide and sur- it mostly for them. If I were childless 1 their father but they do not mise him. They come from Harry, from relatives. Somehow I couldn't picture Debbie— havior. When you're giving a child-a prised. “I will carry on with excitement OD peer bn pel ate SS ophrcledeslatandesratheariye er erm ean RL oe a ceall pete wie te pleas 4 Mie re you are, Todd’ pe hee. o s. If they didn’t have anyone. there would preciate all these gifts. including those F : Cae ak 4 ; aye ms sh oie Ee A ee es. eke fac tao aaa ing her son's wobbly work bench. Carrie said to me one day, ‘Harry ing into bed all by yourself. Why, they: lean’ on bin etresgth: gilts. It isn’t right that #0 many toys “Sure.” said Debbie, as though this is bigger than you, and Dottie (the rowing up so fast, I can hardly mcs foe chiles rune iam _ © “Fh. ol thas sings that bap shld ratio pi i Sese fir mes netucaleccupaon 9 1 se gune) i bigger. but yoo bit harder” bear i." And she gives Carre very sine el CCT eee fier wena lhl tee HAS wih si rere at Harry's generosity and the man children naturally ask for ad- fans, we give them to the church to be things yourself, it takes asked for it. Of course, children don’t continued on page
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ee aes “WHAT | WANT FOR MY CHILDRI continued night, she uses the same stunt Dottie does, only she says, “Let's surprise Dottie.” When they get into bed by themselves, the children blissfully believe that they have surprised Dottie. There's 1io serious sign of jealousy be- tween Todd and Carrie. “When Todd was first born there was 4 little jealousy,” says Debbie with her customary candor. “It was never on ‘Todd's part, but on Carrie's. To help her get over it, I let her hold and feed him. I could never raise Todd without her help, I told her. “Gradually her jealousy began to dis- appear. When there were moments of jealousy, I'd bring Carrie to the baby sing to him. It took about to get over her jealousy completely. “T think we had the advantage of the irl being the older child. A little girl has a motherly instinct. When Carrie earned to mother Todd, she stopped be- ing jealous. She still mothers him, picks cout his clothes, even bathes and dresses him, “Not long ago she said, ‘Mommy, I'd baby brother or sister.” ‘And how do you suggest we get ” T asked. ‘Just order it. Call the store.” i, “‘I'm very much afraid that babies are out of sea- ‘son right now. ‘lose to Christmas. Since Santa ras going to bring them other ., Carrie couldn't see why he should deny them this very special one. “If we're good, don’t you think Santa Claus will get us anything we want? Why not a little boy or girl?” “‘Santa Claus is quite busy right now,’ I said. “‘He’s loaded with toys to deliver to boys and girls all over the world. He has only toys—no babies. Maybe someday we'll get that baby.’” “What do you want most for your children?” 1 asked Debbie. “L want happiness for them. 1 want to prepare them for life the best way I know how. I think the best way is to give them a sense of values and fine religious training. “[ take them to Sunday school every respect and a to advise other parents—who ain I to ad- vise them?—but I parents should pass along the faith that there is Some- one far wiser and with more inner strength than anyone on earth. That is the Almighty God. If children are brought up to believe this, they will never know fear. When they have peri- ods of unhappiness such as come to every one, they won't be crushed. “{ want to teach my children phi- losophy of goodness such as my parents gave my brother and me. In everyone’s life there are difficult periods that we must work through and mature through without becoming bitter or learning to hate the world. “Whenever Bill and I have a disturb- ing situation or problems to face, we draw great strength from the faith our parents taught us. I'm going to raise my children to believe in God. If you can raise children with the belief that they can lean on God, they will have the inner strength to carry them through troubled times.” END What's Playing At The Movies continued from page II effective weapon, really. Arlene Francis, Red Buttons, and Lilo Plaver make mat- ters even more delightful once the en- cergetic Cagney has set the pace. (U.A.) THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES EARED strictly for the juver trade, this is slapstick at its wildest. Moe, Larry and Curly Joe take it into their lumpy noggins to help Quinn Rede- young scientist, perfect ‘The results throw them back to 961 B.C. and political upheaval. Actually, the chaos existing is small potatoes compared to the effect of the ‘Three Stooges. In a welter of monsters, and super humans like Hercules, they always seem to fare exceedingly well. part of this feeling of well-being due, doubt, to a large supply of tranquilizers. As the scientist with more brain than muscle, Quinn makes a surprising trans formation much to the delight of Vici Trickett and the welfare of all. Lot: fun, mayhem, special effects. (Columbia. TOO LATE BLU! IGGING those sounds of jazz like, man, they were never dug before. musician’ Bobby Darin is wrapped around the kind of soul that gets goose- bumps at the thought of commer iam. Picking up the Darin downbeat, would-be singer Stella Stevens is a chick who apparently suffers from everything except receding gums (though 9 out of 10 dentists will tell you that thar, too, can be caused by malfunctioning of the emotional stabilizing mechanisms). Hopelessly smitten by this taut bundle of way out distress, Darin makes the others another, and when Darin gets to be a great big boy, he sets out to rescue Stella and his swingin’ combo again. Ogling anything that's ugly and tire- some, the cameras operate like Peeping Toms and add nothing to this remark ably confused and embarrassing display of fumbling artiness. (Paramount.) DESERT PATROL ITH an expertness that comes from years of practice, the British cer- tainly are the ones for turning out a ceracker-jack wartime adventure. In an ill assorted group the officers, John Greg- son and Michael Craig. manage to look ike each other and David Niven. The cealisted men range from the young, nerv- ous chap who acts more like he's going to have the baby instead of his wife, to the e: swillin’ rowdy with a heart of gold. It’s strange that with the pattern so well known by now, this turns out to be a rousing thriller. Picked for their special talents, a handful of soldiers are expected to knock out « huge ammuni- tion depot in the African desert. Unfor- tunately, the Nazis, well-taught in desert warfare, whittle down the number of British to where the odds for successful completion of the mission are almost nil. In a time when it is commonplace for men to shirk duty to their country, this unabashed show of heroism, is good for the spirit. (UniversalInternational.) THE SINGER NOT THE SONG TT PHE toll paid for grappling with evil is something Father John Mills ix quite prepared for. and even anxious to face. Yet, arriving in a small Mexi- can town to revive a crumbled parish and bring religion back, Mills hadn't reckoned on Dick Bogarde. a veritable Devil incarnate. There are vague hint= that Bogarde’s pathological hatred for the clergy has roots in his past. To rid the town of any priestly powers, he has actually forced everyone to reject the church. Still, Mills has _unplumbed strength Bogarde hadn't realized. Gradu- ally, against tremendous odds and few murders of innocent people, the priest manages to send Bogarde and his vile vaqueros packing. It's only « temporary respite. Bogarde finds another way to destroy Mills. The weapon is Mylene Demongeot, a local beauty. Filmed in Technicolor, this strives to discover if man's goodness comes from himself or his religious training. The answer is for you to decide. (Warner Bros.) END Tl He Hadda Have Heart continued from page 37 logic and dogged determination that he uses to unravel enigmas of crime as TV's Detective Adam Faith, “Naked City” sleuth. Of all the cops ’n' robbers dramas cur- rently exploding into the nation’s living rooms, “Naked City” is probably the hardest on its actors. Its producers shoot for realism. Their star is New York City. ‘Scenes are done on tocation. Actors and camera crew fight constantly with traffic jams, curious crowds, blizzards, storms. power failures. municipal red tape and enough unpredictable headaches every day to send a Hollywood director run- ning for his psychiatrist's couch, You have to have a sense of humor ind/or a gross of tranquilizers to survive to ten hours, six days a week as a member of the “Naked City” biographers. Paul Burke has an excellent sense of humor and he is the team’s best tran- quilizer, At least that’s what pretty Nancy Malone. who plays Paul's fiancée, says. “Paul is not only one of the finest ith.” she said recently, “but he’s an amazing guy. He ‘can laugh at things that would make me ery. He sees the humor in every situation. He can make the rest of us relax when things start becoming absolutely impos- sible. And that's.” she laughed wryly, ‘about 90 percent of the time!” Paul's ability to put people at ease is immediately apparent when you meet him off-camera. His manner is frank and very direct. He has a warm smile that carves two dimples into his tanned cheeks and makes him look more like the kid next door home for a college vacation than the 35-year-old father of three children. He is a trim six-footer. There are flecks of silver in his wiry brown hair, but they don’t belong to the rest of the man. There are crinkles around his slate-blue eyes, but they come from laughing and squint- ing into cameras—not from age. He’s happily married to @ charming, attractive woman. His ki healthy id well-adjusted. He lives in a cheerful home in a quiet, exclusive New York suburb. Everything about Paul and his surroundings is extremely comfortable and relaxed. And surface-wise, every- thing about Paul suggests that it was al- ways this way. It wasn't, For 15 years, he fought an uphill battle to get where he is today. It was a tough. tedious struggle. It ran the span of the US. with major theatres of action in Hollywood and New York. It was the kind of fight that can drain a man physically and emotionally—if he doesn't have a steel spine and an iron will. Paul has both. He inherited them. His father—Marty Burke, who lives with them today—is a genial, giant of man, an ex-champion boxer and still a legend in prize-ight circles. His mother, Santa (now deceased), was a determined and eer fearless woman. She had to be. The Burkes owned and managed two night- clubs in the French Quarter of New Or- leans. It was 2 rough neighborhood. A brawl 2 night was average. Paul was born “above a bandstand” July 21, 1926. He was a quiet, “sort of introverted” kid. His biggest ambition for his first dozen years was to play drums. Mother said, “No. Too noisy.” He took piano lessons instead. When he was 14, he got his first job asa ballyhoo man for a neighborhood movie theatre. “I was supposed to keep the lines straight and moving. It was probably my first real acting role. T re- hearsed for two nights in front of a mirror before applying.” Later. he joined a Little Theatre group. For two summers, they toured camps and uit theatres. It was strictly amateur but it got into Paul's blood. There was no other eareer for At 18, he flipped a coin: “Heads, I'd g0 to New York, tails, Hollywood.” It came out tails. He headed West with high hopes. “I was determined to make it big before | was 21." IX months and no job later, spirits and money were both getting low, He flew home for the summer. Then Marty Burke remembered a friend in Hollywood, a director at 20th Century- Fox. Paul went back to California, looked up his dad’s friend and landed a bit part in « movie. It was filmed, of all places, in New Orleans. His buddies were so impressed that three of them joined him in Hollywood the second year. They set up bachelor quarters in a drafty old ballroom and enrolled in dramatic school. Fortune didn't strike that year—but love did. Paul met a shapely, vivacious blonde dancer named Peggy Prior. And sud- denly, he didn’t want to be a bachelor any more. They became engaged during the Spring of 1946. But idealistic Paul in- sisted, “We won't get married until T made it.” Two months later, he plain- tively confessed, “Honey, I don't know when V'm gonna make it.” “So why wait?” she calmly shrugged. jelter Hida. They. were mere th june. | Their honeymoon started on an om- is note. They'd spent a few days visiting friends in Chicago. There was one party after another. They had plane tickets for an early morning flight to Memphis and on to New Orleans, At about 3 a.m. they had a choice of making another party or catching « few a His weary and ever-practical wife countered, “Sure we can. We'll just take a later plane,” “You're brilliant, darling,” he beamed. ‘Tt was literally a life-saving decision. The plane they were supposed to take crashed near Memphis, killing all aboard. “We didn’t find out about it until we reached Memphis,” Paul said, “We called my folks right away. Mother was already throwing Italian faints, We were pretty shook up, too.” For the next year, Paul and Peggy ran his parents’ club. “My folks hadn't had a real vacation in years.” In 1947, they headed West "39 Packard. It broke down in in the middle of a dust storm, i Paul said wryly. “That means 1'm nervous and highstrung, Naturally, T thought it was the end, I gave a marvel- ously dramatic performance—ranting and raving about how we should have taken ‘one of my buddies along. Peggy is the opposite. She's always been the sensible ‘one. She fished a flask out of the glove compartment and said, ‘Here, have a belt.” I did. She said, ‘Have another.’ I had two more and promptly fell asleep. “When I woke up, the storm had sub- sided and we went to get help, T had visions of us walking and walking into He smiled sheep: a very romantic and im- But that's the way I was. Well, we walked around a bend and found a gas station! “Since then,” he nodded musingly, “we've walked around enough corners and found enough gas stations to keep us going.” But there were stretches between There was a three year stretch in Hollywood when Paul tended bar at night and studied dramatics in Pasadena Play- house during the day. Peggy couldn't work. There was little Paula to take care of and Brian was on the way. Paul's first alarm would go off at 6:30 a.m. He'd down a pep pill and turn over again until the second alarra clanged at 7, He'd stagger out of bed, splash cold water on his face and gulp two cups of black coffee. Then he'd speed across the Hollywood hills to acting school, Classes were from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. He tended bar from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m, He'd get home by 2:30, cram in a few hours of study and tumble into bed for a few hours. “I lived,” he ruefully reflected, “on dexamil, black coffee and cigarettes,” He became a father for the second time, ironically enough, on opening night of a Little Theatre production of Strind- berg’s “The Father,” in which he had a And Hollywood wasn't _a well-stocked larder—even for a bona fide “graduated” actor. Television was still in its awkward, infantile stages. (“To stage actors, it was «crazy little world where people walked (continued on page 50) Din cM eta tas sin Sb ie
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HE HADDA HAVE HEART continued around in green and purple makeup and didn’t know what they were going to do next.”) In the movie were doing more firing than hiring, In the Summer of 1950, a writer friend told Paul he could “arrange” a New York i ion. Paul jumped at the chance, He arrived via day coach from Los Angeles, with $42 in his pocket. ‘The next morning he was told that the part had already been cast. “Look,” Paul said desperately, “I've got a wife and two kids in California ‘who are counting on my getting this job. T haven't even got the fare to get back there.’ ‘The agent grunted and shifted his cigar to the other corner of his mouth, Paul’s story wasn't new. “Can you do comedy?” he asked. “Sure.” Paul said quickly. He had never done a comedy role in his life. But he auditioned for and won a lea role in a summer stock tour of “Bu Not Goodbye.” ‘That fall, he came back to New York with little more money than when he'd left, but a feeling that he'd notched a Again, it was a rough stretch between gas stations. For 12 jobless weeks, -he pounded pavements and camped in agents’ offices. MADE the rounds fanatically, start ing at 8:30 in the morning. . . . Who ate? Maybe hot dogs for 12-cents at Grants. [ lived in a cheap room in the Hotel Iroquois. There was another strug- gling young actor there—Jimmy Dean. We became friends. We had two things in common: both of us were deadly de- termined to land good acting roles and neither of us could pay the rent.” When the need to eat became stronger he signed to and Navy base use, “My first paycheck was $250. It was like $250,000.” He was eating regularly and sending money home, but it wasn't very satisfy- ing way of life. “L felt terribly frustrated. What I was doing was leading me exactly nowher ‘Actually, where it led was to a collapse —from physical exhaustion, poor living, and a serious infection in his right arm. One rainy night in the Winter of 1952, a doctor looked down at Paul as he lay weakly in hed, and said gravely. “You are terribly run down. There’s a danger of this infection spreading through your whole system. You have to go home and rest—complete rest—for at least two or three months, “But, Doc,” he protested, “I've got to work.” “You can’t work,” the doctor snapped. “You can’t even get out of bed. Anyway,” he added, “with your temperament and 50 “Naked City” is tough work, says Paul, but he gets a great satisfaction from it. ies, acting is too much stronger, your responsibi ‘of a strain for you. When get a steady job and forget Paul went home to bed. But be “forget” about acting. He swore Peggy and his father to secrecy about his illness. When his agent called, some two weeks later, and said Warner Bros, wanted to audition him for a big movie role, he painfully crawled out of bed. “with that arm hanging like a lead weight.” and kept the appointment. He had an added handicap. The day before, he'd had a tooth pulled. They thought it might be causing the infec- tion, He made a quick visit to his dentist for a temporary bridge. “I could hardly talk,” he remembezed, “and my arm was killing me, But. the role was a wonderful break and it meant a lot of money. T auditioned and I thought I was terrible.” ‘Warners thought he was great. He got the part—opposite Burt Lancaster and Chuck Connors in “South Seas Woman.” a “sort of ‘China Marines’ Mutiny Courtmartial.’" It was a very demanding role that required the sensitivity and ma- turity of a seasoned character actor. Tt put Paul in the spotlight as one of Holly- wood's most promi It also “cured” his arm, just as. he laughed, “getting married to Peggy cured the ulcers I'd developed at 17." ‘Neither the ulcers or a bum arm has hothered Paul since. For the next eight or nine months. he freelanced at movie and TV studios. “Things were looking up. I decided to give New York another try.” He arrived early in the Fall of 1953. “This time I was determined to land a Broadway role.” With two other actors he rented a cold water flat in upper Man- hattan. “And I made the rounds— Janatically! T was so intense about it. that if I'd see one of my roommates walk- — ing down the street, I'd cross over to the other side to avoid meeting him and wasting a few precious minutes talking. “I got to hate Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, because it meant T couldn't see any agents. Most of all,” he scowled at the recollection, “I hated baseball. hit New York at World Series time. I'd walk into agents’ offices dead serious about do- ing a reading, and all they wanted to know was, ‘Who's up at bat? What's the Of course.” the Dodgers came to Califor different!” That winter and spring. he landed some good TV parts. “I had a big ad- vantage over the first time,” he said. “Two three movies in which T appeared were 2 on Broadway. When an agent “But T've never seen your work,” could come back with, ‘Well. you might catch the show at the Paramount, or the ‘One afternoon, after a particularly good Studio One performance, he walked into the Cromwell Drugstore—a TV wig hangout. “Guys who had never bothered before, were nodding to me, T knew I had arrived.” He got terribly homesick just about then, “I followed the impulse, and hopped 4 plane for California. It w oud move. The phone started ringing.” It didn’t stop. During 1955 and 1956, Paul appeared in almost every ma) ideo dram show. Tn 1956, Jack Webb was look young. w to play the veteri 0 Noah in “Noah's Ark.” Webb tested about every up-and-coming young actor in Hollywood. None satisfied him. From the: beginning, he'd had a certain man in ind. But he couldn't quite place him, ‘Then he suddenly remembered. “That guy who went through the window in a ‘Dragnet’ last year,” he bellowed to his secretary. “Get him for me!” The guy who “went through the win- dow” was Paul Burke. Paul got the Noah role. He followed it with another series, “Harbor Master.” with Barry Sul- livan. In 1959. he went to 20th Century- Fox to audition for a movie and landed up in another TV series—as an under- cover agent in the European spy thriller, “Five Fingers.” “Five Fingers” bit the dust in Decem- ber, 1959. “I called up my agent.” Paul ruefully recalled, “and I said, ‘I hate to ive you this message for the third time, but the show is being dropped.’ He said. “If you can be in New York on Thursday it was Tuesday—I can get you a test for “Naked City. Needless to say. Paul was in New York Thursday morning. He improvised a scene with Nancy Malone—“the best actress I've ever worked with"—right before the lunch break. After lunch, they said, “You've got the part. We'll make a pilot Monday.” Tt was Paul's introduction to the spark for a and spontaneity of his current “bread n’ butter.” Paul loves the “Naked City” show— even if it means that he only gets one day off approximately every two months. “It’s the kind of a good, solid series I always wanted,” he smiled. “We do « lot of improvisational things. It's 2 real challenge. It's tough work, but there wonderfil satisfaction when you accom. what you set out to do.” What does he have in mind after next fall? Paul thoughtfully chewed on the question. “I'd like to do some more fea- tures on TV." he said finally, “and. of course.” a little twinkle danced in his eyes, “I must do a play one of these days. Then,” he nodded slowly, “I see an end to acting in the not too distant future. 1 want to direct. It’s much more creati Tl probably tackle movies first. And if I prove myself there, then the theatre.” ight now. he's too busy being a day- time detective and a weekend father 10 worry about the future, He gets up at 6. every morning—with one alarm. “I hi the sack at 10 these days.” he laughed. “Lcan sti . but the camera knows the difference.” It takes him about one hour to drive into Manhattan. Shooting starts about 9, often runs until 7 p.m. He gets home about 8:30, He and Peggy have a quiet dinner and then he plays pool, bad baseball with the two older 13, and Brian, 11, before studying to- morrow’s script. Sometimes Peggy meets hhim in New York and they'll have dinner and take in a show. Sunday. his one day off. is “family day.” He spends it exclusively with Peg- gy and the kids. Occasionally, friends from the city come to visit. “Em crazy about this house,” Paul confided. It's a solid, white stucco six- bedroom cottage, tucked in the middle of eight sprawling acres. According to legend, it was built as a summer home in 1914 by the financier, J. P. Morgan. Morgan put in one of Westchester Coui ty’s first swimming pools. The house is rustic, cool and comfortably lived in— with burnished wood paneling and a fireplace that works. Paul stumbled on it during his first weeks of “Naked City” in the Summer of 1960. Peggy and the kids moved in that September. The Burkes also have a modern home in Palm Springs. California. ‘The house is down a winding road and it coyly peeks out from behind stately old oaks and towering firs. For Pau wonderful retreat from the grit of New York, the prying eyes of the camera and the tripping tongues of gossips. Few of his Scarsdale neighbors are aware that a celebrity lives in their midst, Most of them don't even know that he's an actor, One afternoon last fall, a fan magazine photographer, on an assign- ment to shoot Paul at home, lost his bear- ings. He stopped to ask directi house which he thought was in the gen- eral vicinity of his quarry. “Paul Burke, the TV actor?” the lady of the house politely echoed. “No, I'm afraid T don’t know anyone by that call- ing.” ‘Anonymity suite Paul and Peggy to tee. “We're not celebrity hounds,” Peggy quietly explained. “We want the kids to grow up as normally as possible.” From all outward appearances, the little Burkes seem to be doing just that. ‘A good part of the reason why is a con- sistently stable home front. Paul and Peggy have been happily married for 15 years, Unlike many TV “widows.” Peggy isn't the least bit jealous of the little glass- faced box that's stolen her husband. “T see a lot more of him now than I ever did im the beginning.” she cheerfully pointed out. END He’s His Own Boss Now continued from page 32 Even in formulating his declaration of independence, Fabian Forte remained sensitive about the feelings of others, took care not to kick over the traces. His snood was one of reasoning, not of spite. His emergence was one of growth, not ‘of angry revolt—although in fact he was rebelling against many of the re- straints he had accepted so submissively in the past. “But now.” he said flatly. yet without rancor, “when I go out on a date, I want to have a good time with somebody of my own choosing. If I don't feel like Coming from easygoing Fabian, that statement—"That's how T feel about it” —onee might have sounded like naked audacity. Even now he did not issue it as an imperious battle ery, but it gave warning of a new strength in his per- eonality- surging will, an air of au- thority that he got across with deceptive softness of speech, 1 fresh assertiveness that he wore with the pleasure of sur- prise present he might have received for his 19th birthday. Ie was a new Fabian : longer carefully nurtured and monitored in every thought. Suddenly he had the temerity to admit to feelings of his own. It was a Fabian awakening from ado- lescent slumber with the resolve to make whatever modifications were necessary. minor or major, to live a life of his own. His first order of business was to live his personal life according to personal Preference—not to sacrifice his emotions and needs on the altar of a public image. He had had his fill of off-stage pretense, * no matter how harmless the masquerade cor how his career might be advanced in the process, “I just feel more comfortable being myself,” Fabe declared with a bland smile. “When you do something for pub- licity, it’s not really wrong—you're not doing anything that false, you know— but the thing is that if you do something you really like to do, or if you're with someone that you like to be with, it makes you feel better. And you're doing it for the same purpose, and it comes across the same way, so why shouldn't it be that way? of his 19th birth- ‘own man—let no man, in ‘or foe, seek to make it otherwise. The measure of his astonish ing strides in self-esteem was provided when Fabian made so bold as to venture that at 19 he was ready enough, mature enough, wise enough and man enough to make a go of marriage—were he so disposed. “T feel that if I were to get married at « young age,” Fabe blithely reasoned, “T would be more ready for marriage than someone else the same age. From traveling and meeting people, because of responsibilities I've had earlier in life than most guys, because I've been in a position to see w lot of life, T feel that way. I might be wrong.” ‘The last he dropped as a polite con- cession to modesty. His belief, however, was spoken with conviction, “Two years ago I would be just guess: ing about a thing like that,” he conceded. “But T could marry now if T wanted to, If T were to happen to meet someone I fell in love with, there would be nothing to stop me from getting married. I'm ize where I'm really susceptible.” expression of confidence in his manhood was no more than that, however. As tantalizing as his remarks were, they did not translate that he ac- tually was on the verge of forsaking bachelorhood while still in his teens, He was wily enough to cover his tracks so to leave no doubt on that score. “The thing is,” he smiled boyishly, “I must be honest. Marriage right now is the furthest thing from my mind. T feel there's so much work ahead of me—in the business and with my personal life— that I wouldn't want to get married for a while. Unless I really fall in love, which would be the only way I would do it, And I would rather not at this point.” ‘What seemed important to Fabe was that he wasn't sidestepping marriage in (continued on page 52) ————
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HE'S HIS OWN BOSS NOW continued obedience to a mastermind’s blueprints for his future, but was responding to the dictates of his own thinking. “[ just don’e want to get married right " he reiterated. “I've got enough on my mind.” at in “North To Alaska” and recently imed with his offbeat performance ‘as a mad dog teenager in a controversial “Bus Stop” segment. Fabe had just come from a rehearsal ‘of the twist for his upcoming 20th Century-Fox picture, “Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation,” and he noticed, almost with tearful joy, that the same critics who had been razzing him mercilessly as a singer now had lifted once vitriolic pens in his praise as an actor. Unless circumstances conspired to trip him up, his plans were to woo his career first— and let romance cool its heels in the wings. Being « gentleman as well as a young fellow of steely purpose, Fabian ad- mitted that he thought it only fair to avoid any pleasures that might arouse false hopes among his girl friends—not ‘exeluding front runners Kathy Kersh (the new Miss Rheingold) and Barbara Megellanes of Philadelp! “T guess I do drop a couple of hints, you know, to let the girls know I'm not interested in getting serious,” he said, almost apologetically. “If it ever does happen that a girl really gets serious, T would just call jt quits before anyone got hurt—if /’'m not serious, Serious or not, the new Fal therefore indiscriminate. No mat nice the pickings might be, he intends to do the picking himself, However, Fabe was constrained to acknowledge that the protection he realizes as an automatic bonus from being a traveling troubadour is balanced, unhappily, by some poig- nant disappointments ‘M not around long enough to go steady with anyone,” Fabian revived a bachelor dodge which has served him before. “That's the truth, and it gives me an easy out, I'll admit, but you can mess up a lot of friendships like that, too. If you get to know a girl and you like her and get along fine, by the time you come back you have to start all over again. ‘That's the only disadvantage.” Fabian contemplated 1 with appropriate sadness—and with sav- ing philosophical acceptance. “It happens all the time,” he said of couple of days after I le it’s all over, and the feeling is gone. I think, ‘Gee, I wish I could have stayed with her a little longer,’ but then after T'm working I forget.” Despite his distaste for make-believe 52 Serious romance is out Jor Fabian—he plans to concentrate on his rising career. romance, Fabe met luscious Kathy Kersh for the fet time on «staged date layout at he laid eyes on met. The photographer ordered it th: way. They enacted a tempestuous day at the beach, full of loving embraces and clinging kisses, Fabian needed no prompting to pick up from that warm, albeit contrived, beginning. “We got to know each other and we started to go out. related matter-of-fact. Kathy for about a year and a half, and then I bumped into her once on the Paramount lot. I said, “Why don’t we get together?" She said. ‘Fine,’ and I've been going out with her ever since.” To sanctify their romance, Fabe hat seen to it that there have been no more date layouts and no more pablic appear- ances. He likes Kathy for her own sake— and he bas taken the position that even the harmless combining of business and pleasure might give her the wrong im- pression and might make him feel like less of a man. Similarly, Fabe recently vetoed his New York publicity man's suggestion that he do a date layout with pretty Barbara Megellanes, a Phil retary. Fabe met her on hi five months ago, and has taken pains to bona fide romance ian was blunt in turning down the magazine layout with Barbara. “T told my New York publicity man Td rather not,” he said, “because sup- pose six months from now when the layout came out I wasn't going with her anymore. Then she'd only be bugged all the more by her friends. I felt there's a million girls you can get for a date I out. Why does it have to be this one’ Evidently the press agent was im- pressed by the novelty of his once docile client having the gumption to speak up. “No reason,” he dropped the mater. “T just asked.” “If she were in the business.” Fabe shrugged. “it would be different. She wouldn't care. But here’s a girl who's a secretary and lives an ordinary life. Why should I disrupt it?” Fabe modestly overlooked the distinet possibility that he already has disrupted Barbara's life—even without—benefit of publicity, not to mention the twin pos sibility that she has shaken him up some- what, too. An unmistakable gleam came into his eyes when he talked about Bar bars. He made her sound very much like the kind of girl he enjoys the thought of coming home to. “Barbara is a very sincere, warm girl.” Fabian said, giving her a glowing testi- jal. “She's not like other girls who want to go out all the time to night clubs and things like that. We can go to a neighborhood movie or sit at a hot dog stand, and it's nothing to her. We drove into New York one day. where we caught ‘a picture and dropped in at a couple of offices to say hello to some friends. We always get along fine. If I don't feel like st go over to her house and Fabian felt obliged to say some kind words about Kathy Kersh, too—and in smiled. “There are some girls you never feel free to do that with. You feel you evening out. With dressed up all the time. If you don't feel like shaving, you just go over anyway.” Fabian's appreciation of these two dolls on opposite coasts offered « clue to another area in which he has pretty nearly made up his mind—and with very little seeming concern about how disappointed Hollywood starlets may re- act to the bad, news STILL feel,” he stated, eyes twin- ing, as he reverted to his marriage requirements, a subject obviously not without some fascination for him, “that things like hair and coloring and eyes don't really make a difference. Person- ality is important, of course—you know. if we can both get along great together. But I would prefer, honestly, someone not in the business. I've seen enough now where I'm convinced one career in a family is enough. “I just feel any girl I marry should just be a wife. Her kicks should come out of my success. I don’t like the idea of any wife of mine being off on location someplace when I'm off on location some- where-else. With only one career, I can take her with me if I want to, Her main interest in life should be me. “And I don’t think I'm looking at it selfishly. I feel that when I get married that will be it, and I don’t want any ‘outside complications. I would just feel better with a hometown girl, someone who understands the kind of life I like, i who understands the kind of family I come from, the way I was raised. I still enjoy doing a lot of the things I liked to do when I was a kid.” Whoever ends up wearing Fabian's ring in the end—an actress or a home- body—she will be getting a man, not a mouse. Fabe no longer is the meek, con- pliant teenage idol who once was so tim- id aboot expressing an idea or a desire of his own. The striking thing is that the new Fabian has staked out his independence without striking cocky airs or setting down foolishly hard and fast rules. Even in the all-important matter of matrimony, Fabe conceded with a grin that it w it turn out differently from the way he idealized it. “I suppose [ still might marry some- ‘one in the business,” he granted amiably. “You never can tell. I guess there's more chance of it happening because I'm with people in the business every da) Carrying that concession a step fur- ther, he was careful to avoid any iron. clad ban on dating movie princesses Mleig lighted Hollywood bashes. He ply was determined to do it on his own terms and with his eyes wide open, “If T happen to-meet a girl in the business and we get along—fine!” he said charitably. not saying that I'll never go out with a girl in the business— although lately I seem to have been meeting girls not in the business. It just happens that way. “When a date is arranged for a pre- miere or something like that, we can always get along for the couple of hours that we're together, but it’s so business- like. You know, if you're supposed to be out with « girl for a date layout or some- thing on that order, you're ‘on’ all the time. You just make the best of it. but there's no real feeling.” ‘One of the few exceptions to this bleak rule was Shelley Fabares, a stranger to Fabian until their advisers paired them for the -Hollywood unveiling of “The ness all night, or this was going to do us good, or anything like that. It was just a matter of our getting along well. She's a very down to earth girl, She be is a big boy now, and he wants to act and be treated accordingly. That means having the right to think for him- self, having a voice in his decisions, and having some privileges at least remotely commensurate all 1 ask. Even if you make a few mi yyt? ¥ Start your Collection NOW! °y . Pomme COLOR : takes it's good for you. You know what I mean, I feel I've reached the point where I need to make a few decisions of my own—not all of them.” He did not attempt to evade the ob- pact of what he was saying. 1 want to be treated as if I have a mind of my own.” he hammered it home. “E think I'm capable of making decisions that will work for me, I've read a couple of things that I felt were not right when other people thought they were just what the doctor ordered. It turned out that they were wrong and [wa never throw it up to anybody, makes me feel that T can make a right move once in a while.” Any hint that Fabe, in his new state of mind, might go hog wild and do himself damage, mects with a gesture politely short of derision, “There's no reason for that,” he earnestly, “At a risk of being a little immodest, I feel that I've worked bard, and to goof it now would be kind of ridiculous His feelings—and he stated them with. out window dressing—were that he had served his apprenticeship with hard work and obedience, and that he had earned the right to stand on his own feet. 's funny the way this business makes you feel a couple of years older,” Fabian ruminated. “At times I feel older (continued on page 54) vie PHOTOS ---JUST FOR YOU }-: handling. Michael Catan SPECIAL SERVICE. ‘The 100 Stars listed below are available in COLOR OR BLACK & WHITE. 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Some- times I get very serious about the fatu: and I wonder what's going to happen. ike if T was in school right now, I'd be in college. All I'd be doing is going to school and just worrying about my studies and things like that. “Now I have to worry about if this next picture is going to be good for me, if this next song is going to be all right. Are my mother and father happy? Am I doing enough for them? Am I thinking right as a human being? Am I hurting anybody on the way up? All these things work on your mind. Usually a much older person would have these problems.” Fabian was in the throes of acting on 4 monumental discovery—that manhood was something asserted, not conferred. And when it was achieved, no shouting or posturing was necessary. It became a fact of life and was recognized—even in his own home where, he learned hap- pily, it is not necessarily true that a prophet is without honor. “T guess I'm getting a little bit older.” softly. “Now my father'll on a lot of things. How do I think this would look in the house? What do I think of that, and so forth. 1 told him some of my professional plans and he said. “Well, this is your business. You have more experience than I have. If you feel it’s right, go ahead.” That makes me feel good. My father doesn’t treat me like @ kid anymore, He treats me like a man. The new Fabian obviously will brook no less from anyone else—for a simple reason. He holds himself a man—with all the hazards and the prerogatives. END “ICried My Way Through HighSchool” continued from page 27 believe I've ever had anything else to wear since that I thought was quite so beautiful.” Cynthia, daughter of veteran ville, radio and night club entertai Jack Pepper, and his wife, Dawn, made her stage debut on Broadway when she Md wude- a scout saw her in a dancing class. “T can't remember much about the show,” Cynthia says, “except that in one scene a maid’ was supposed to pick me up and carry me off stage with my back toward my audience. “As the maid carried me off, I realized my short, stiff skirt was standing straight up and my panties were showing. I was overcome by modesty. I gave the audi- ence a hurried, embarrassed look over my shoulder and gave my skirt a yank. “It was impromptu, but the audience howled. The director thought it was so funny he kept it in the show.” Cynthia can vaguely remember that she had whooping cough during rehearsal but recovered before the open “Funny thing, too.” she says, “on the ‘Margie’ set the other day a boy came up and asked if we hadn't met somewhere before. We talked for a while and found that we had both lived in New York. He asked if I had acted there, and I told him about being in ‘It's A G ““T remember you.’ he sai the girl with whooping cough. Everyone was so afraid you wouldn't be well in time for the show.” “He was in the show, too, it turned out. Wasn't that a coincidence?” Cynthia and her family lived in ginia Beach for a while, and she remem- bers this interval with pleasure. “The Atlantic Ocean was so pret she says, totally ignoring the California Chamber of Commerce. ‘The Peppers moved to Dallas, Texas, next, and Cynthia started to school there, After six years in Dallas, the Peppers settled in Los Angeles where Cynthia at- by all teenage girls—eventually developed in Miss Pepper a confident philosophy. “L believe,” she says, “that everything works out for the. best. I have had some disappointments, but I have discovered that when I don't get something I want, something better u “For example, I a cheerleader when I was in the tenth grade. But, in order to be eligible, I had to have no grade lower than a ‘B.” “Just before the cheerleaders were to be chosen, one of my teachers sent for me and told me not to try out. He said Twas going to get a °C’ in his class, and I would be embarrassed if I were selected cheerleader and then were disqualified. T was heartbroken, but I didn’t try out. “Then, when grades were issued, the teacher gave me a ‘B’ and I was sick. I thought he'd intended to give me a “B" all the time and had kept me from being cheerleader’ just to be hateful, “It worked out all right, though, be- cause a little later I was elected vice- president of the class, which was a bigger honor. If I'd been cheerleader, I might not have had time to run for class office. “Then, about boys, things worked out the same way. For the best eventually. T ‘was crazy about a boy who was dating whe... ‘quadrangle, it was just like “High Noon, “Everybody stopped talking as we walked toward each other. Now that I think about it, the whole thing must have heen ridiculous, but, at the time, it was very serious. We walked—each of us alone—toward each other while her friends stood behind her and mine stpod behind me. Nobody said a word. “Then, when we got close together. I hear you are dating So and So." * she said, ‘I am. I said. wondering what the next ‘move was supposed to be since we weren't wearing guns, ‘you can't. He dates me.” ‘m dating him, and what are you koing to do about it?” my rival asked— 4 sensible question actually. “There wasn't a thing I could do about it, and so I walked away—gunned down, +0 to speak. was a dreadful moment, but that worked out all right too, because I got him back. Then be left for Europe.” The romance with the boy who went Europe was so serious that his family ted Cynthia to go with them and visit relatives in Austria. “Or was it Czechoslovakia?” she won- ders now. “I told my mother I was going. but she knew all the time I wouldn't when the moment of decision came. The boy and I said a sad goodbye, and that was that. I believe he is in New York now.” One of the most convincing proofs that things work out for the best, Cynthia thinks, is her experience with the “Ma ie” role. “Before I knew about “Margie.’" she says, “I hoped to get @ part in another series. I didn’t get the part and was crushed. but then the series didn't sell. If T'd gotten the role in the other show, 1 wouldn't have been considered for “Margie’ and now, since the other series dida’t sell, I'd be out of work.” Cynthia, who is a few years older than “Margie” (bat not many). looks so young that a storekeeper recently refused to sell her cigareties she was trying to buy for her mother. With her blue-eyed blondness and ing of freckles, she looks some- ing like Doris Day. There is also about Cynthia a suggestion of the late Margaret Sullavan. This may be due not to facial contour so much as to an air of ca innocence. The fact that Cynthia is both ca and innocent gave rise to an incident it convulsed her more sophisticated col- leagues. Jack Pepper was married to Ginger Rogers before he married Dawn, Cynthia's mother. Cynthia. seeing Miss Rogers for the first time on a set. couldn't wait for an introduction. Approaching the glamourous actress with admiration and frank friendliness, Cynthia said: “How do you do, Miss Rogers, I'm Cynthia Pepper. I believe you were a friend of my father.” $ Cynthia, attending Los Angeles City (continued on page 56) HE HAD REPORTS PROVING THAT PEOPLE LIVE TO BE 120 AND OLDER without arthritis, rheumatism, weakness, constipation and nervousness. like a child before my master as this man | had never seen before told me an amazing FE story. ‘stood tall and strong, with bronzed skin, white beard and unforgettable eyes a that had seen the suffering of all mankind and wonder of ail creation. His eyes held me with “ . a of iron as he started his incredible story! = DETERMINED TO LEARN SECRET —mwia. 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West 32, “1 CRIED MY WAY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL” continued College after high school, majored there in theatre arts and psychology and, a» an amateur psychologist, has theories about the appeal of the “Margie” show. “The period of the 1920's,” she says, “has always had an attraction for people as long as I can remember. We had « “Twenties” party when I was in high school, and boys and girls who were usually too inhibited to take part in nything relaxed and had a wonderful time, “The 1920's interest people because they were so different from today. WI you put on clothes from the Twenties, like being in a play—you become some- body else. It's an escapist thing. I think, too, the boys and Is who grew up then were not only more carefree than young people are now—they were less worldly, People were provincial. because travel was difficult. The teenager's home town was his world, becanse he'd never been anywhere else. Young people worried about their immediate, local problems. but not about the whole world. Or. at least, that’s how it seems to me. It must have been a wonderful time. “Basically, though, boys and girls were the same in the Twenties as now. Girls cried about boys and worried because they didn’t have the latest fads in clothes. ‘And. T guess, boys worried about what- ‘ever boys worry about now.” Cynthia isn’t averse to being typed asa teenager. With Debbie Reynolds as an example, why should she be? Her only confessed, unrealized ambitions are to play in a musical comedy and to meet Cary Grant. ‘The second dream more or less proves her theory . . . all girls basically are the same. Not every girl has wanted to pl musical comedy. But to meet Cary Gi Wow! Of Course It Was A Boy continued from page 14 get restless. As she said, “All right, let's have the baby now. “One thing is sure.” she ex positively. “the baby will be born Christmas! I just know it will.” The doctor thought it would be too, but he could give her no particular re- assurance. As he tried to explai especially the first ones, often are erratic as far as keeping a schedule is con- cerned. However, he thought December 20 would be about the right figuring. “rit my baby before then,” Sandra said—and that was that. 29 young Dodd Mitchell Darin opened his dark blue eyes. his dark hair curling on his forehead, and greeted the world. Sandra was right on another score. She had always insisted the baby would be boy. In fact, she was so certain, that of all the countless clothes she bought, only one thing was pink. Everything else was blue. She even bought an Eton suit, year-old in size, and this she purchased. along with most of the other things, ap- proximately two weeks after she knew she was going to have a baby. Mary Donovan, Sand telling her she shouldn't plan so by ‘on a boy. for she would be too disap- pointed if she didn’t get her wish. As for Bobby, it didn’t matter to him. He just wanted a healthy baby, a family of his ‘own, and he'd be happy with either a boy ‘or a girl. Towards the end of her preg- nancy, Sandra also had agreed thi that mattered was that the baby was well. Then she added, “But I just know it's going to be a boy.” In short, Sandra had everything per- fectly organized. She knew what she wanted—and she got it. ‘About ten days before Dodd was born, Sandra had all of her things ready for the hospital. The nursery was in perfect shape. it being the only room in the house that had been finished during the Darins’ redecorating spree. It is done in blue and white. The bassinette is a pale yellow with tiers of eyelet rufiles, the crib is white, the drapes are awning-like stripes of blue and white. most of the furniture is white. and there are cute lamps and figurines around to . give atmosphere. Not one to sit and wait, Sandra kept busy those last days with Christmas shopping and wrapping packages. But each day seemed long and endless. Then. on a Friday afternoon, she was at her mother's working on Christmas details, Suddenly, she stopped what she was do- ing and said, “I think I'd better get home, Mother. I 10 get Bobby to take me to the hos There was no frantic dashing about a far as Sandra was concerned, but Mary got in a bit of a tizzy. Sandra went home. called the doctor, and was told to get right to the hos; |. It was a generally hectic session, with Mary and Bobby di~ jing the most “nerves.” ‘ou aren't afraid, are you was asked. “Afraid! Why should I be?” she retorted. Nobody expected Sandra to have an ‘easy time in delivery, but there were no complications, no difficulties, and Sandra acted as though she had gone through this many times before. When she came to, she asked at once a ” Sandra to see her haby. A little later. he was brought into her room and the glow in Sandra's eyes, the way her face radiated complete happiness is something seen only on the faces of new mothers. Sandra said softly. “Look, my baby isn’t all wrin- kled the way you hear new babies are. He's pink and beautiful.” Then, to her mother, she said, “I'm a mother now— and you're a grandmother.” Bobby's only feel 15 feet Bobby was ecstatic. He had filled the room with flowers. Wires from many friends were all over. One of the first came from Ross Hunter, who has pro- duced most of Sandra’s pictures. It read “Report to work tomorrow.” While she was in the hospital, she was ‘on the phone most of the time receiving and placing calls. She was only there for three days but they seemed to her. She could start taking care of the baby. When she did get home. the nursery, filled with flowers, greeted her and the baby. There was also 2 little Christmas tree Bobby had bought for Dodd's first Christmas, Almost at once, Sandra be- gan taking care of the baby and she sur- prised her mother and Bobby with her efficiency. As her mother said. “You'd have thought she had had five babies For a while, Sandra kept asking her mother all kinds of questions about the baby. This was not a new approach—she had been as inquisitive before the baby was born. She tried to find out how her mother had taken care of her when she was little and Mary would only say she couldn't remember. Thi S dra to remark one da sure you had me?” She also asked the doctor for endless information. Not satisfied with what she was told, she began to read every book she could find on the subject of the care “of babies. Finally, her doctor told her to stop reading. ‘ou're already far beyond what you'll ever haye to know,” he grinned. “You're not going to be an obstetrician— just a mother.” Se Sendra began her new career with more than a little know! Jurkin behind her. — re ‘Those who have seen Sandra with her baby are convinced she’s going to be a good mother. And nobody has any doubts about Bobby's acceptance of his father role. To him, a family has always meant everything. He had a close rela- tionship with his own family and home was always 8 meaningful thing to him. As a boy. he didn’t have too much, mate- rially speaking, but he had a lot of love. Things weren't easy for his folks. Conse- quently, he wants everything for Dodd. especially a big yard where he can play. .) ‘When Bobby was young, the streets were his play yard. He also wants the baby to have an_understanding of people and a good education. (continued on page 58) INVEst NOW! 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She has had so much out of life already, she has been ssiven so much that she doesn’t want her baby to be spoiled. She also feels tha child respects his parents more if he is taught the meaning of “No,” along with 1 generous giving of love. “Our baby will be with us wherever we go, though,” Sandra said, looking i, her former baby face having given way to a new kind of maturity. “We're not going to leave him with nurses we go waltzing around. Bobby has to go to New York soon to fill some club dates, and Dodd and I are going along. I want Bobby's folks—and mine—to see Dodd anyway. “Actually, Bobby is going to do less fon because he wants to be home more. Pictures are less de- manding too. While I intend to go on working, I won't be making as many pic- tures as I used to. I have something else in my life now.” While Bobby and Sandra are both working in “If A Man Answers.” they have set up a schedule so they will have ‘a good deal of time with the baby. In the morning, before they go to the studio. they're going to be with the baby. dress- ing him, feeding him his breakfast. Then they will get home in time in the farmed out for He will know his parents love ‘And so a marriage that many wouldn't last but to give him his bath. get him ready for bed. This is one child that won't be nurse to take care of. evening him. thought few months is enter- ing into a more solid phase. With a baby to bind them and their love even strong- er, Sandra Bobby Darin seem head- ed for happiness of an enduring kind. Both have submerged their own interests in the child, Both think more of each other now because of the baby. Both have found « world they never knew ex- isted before. Gone is the impulsive San- dra of a couple of years ago, and to see. sensitivity of Bobby is now open for all the real Dodd Mitchell has worked wonders with his parents already Sheilah Graham’s Intimate Gossip continued from page 10 Sir Laurence Olivier’s naming his son Dickie was for his brother who died a few years ago. There is a big gap in age between Dickie and Olivier's other son, 25-year-old Tarquin—and isn’t that @ beautiful name? . . . When India’s Prime Minister Nehru. was informed by producer Sy Weintraub that he planned to team his new Tarzan, Jock Mahoney. with a bona fide India princess, Nehru replied, “That should make very good box-office.” I think it will. Ekberg will fol- low Rod Taylor to Hollywood. The star ‘of the deceased “Hong Kong” series has ‘4 natural charm for the ladies. I've heard so many rave about the boy . . . Peo ple who have seen her recently tell me that Ava Gardner has never looked so attractive or tranquil! And she’s in the mood to work again. She'll be very dra- matic in “The Jackals,” and dies at the end. A good death scene is often good for an Oscar . . . Eddie Albert, who played a surgeon in “The Young Doc- tor,” has been sending friends « “Do-it- yourself brain surgery” kit . . . Tony Randall stretched and hurt his back. But he won't go into the hospital—not after what happened to poor Jeff Chandler ... And Willian Holden is looking for the person who started the stories that he has some serious malady. Insurance companies. he says, are now subjecting the most thorough health exam- “They seem disappointed when they can't find anything wrong with him,” says. Bill. Richard Beymer finally caught up with his performance in “West Side Story” at the Command Performance in London. Incidentally. Dick and Dany Saval, the luscious Parisienne to whom hhe was engaged, have called the whole thing off, He's been i ing dates with Sharon Tate. an aspiring actress, in Ttaly - In Jerusalem, the movie theatre times a day you see twice? ushers went on strike because they couldn't bear to see the same film three How many movies can - « There have been some persistent rumors that all is not well with the not another divorce! . . . the birth of her baby. is okay now. Bobby Darin, by the way, has been getting in shape to resume her career. She wasn't at all well, pre- Bat she has been composing some enchanting ta to sing to his son . . . [ wonder when young Paul Anka will take the — marriage plunge. Paul is rich enough to support several wives. ‘What goes on with ex-Queen Soraya? as sweet. I can't image, Jack with any read in faraway New York that Soraya is dining and wining with George Nader, Lang Jeffries, and George Ham- ion. She's a beautiful lady, but hasn't she been rather overdoing it? . . Barbara Stanwyck, like June Allyson, has a weight problem. She can't gain. Barbara, who is fairly tall, can't get beyond 105 pounds. June’s limit is ten pounds less. I wish that I had this kind of a problem! The younger generation of actors now includes Ray Milland’s son, Danny, who originally planned to be an engineer. Danny has his own apartment near the Warner Bros. studio. His mother is keep- ing a scrap book for him, and a story I wrote is on page one. But Danny will find it isn’t that easy to be a movie star, especially when your father has been famous . . . Montgomery Clift can now hypnotize his frie Jearned how while playin, John Huston . . . Talking of Huston, this is typical of him. He paid a mere $10,000 for his castle in Ireland. And AL ART INSTRUCTION SCHOOLS. ‘Studio 2242 500 South 4th St., Minneapolis 15, Minn. ‘Please enter my drawing in your talent hurt. 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Se Sh eer es Hollywood Confidential continued from page 13 exactly where it was in "45," she says. Martha Hyer in “A Named Tamiko” has 18 costume changes de- signed by Edith Head, and Martha says they're the “most glamourous, dressed or undressed” she's ever worn. Seems in one scene she wears a mink-lined trench coat—over nothing else! Peter Mann's parents bought 100— count ’em—seats for the New York charity premiere of “Pocketful Of Mirs cles” in which he made his film debut. The date also happened to be his birth- day, so the whole group of his “most intimate friends” went on to @ big birth- day bash for him at Sardis. Bob Newhart is not only a serious- minded young man but inclined to be a pessimist. He rents his apartment here with 13-week options, same like his TV contract! But we don't think he need worry about his TV future. You'll also be seeing him in Paramount's “Hell Is For Heroes” soon. Bob is a “golf nut” ‘and says any time he has away from his ‘work he spends at the Bel-Air Country Club, and that's why he doesn’t date. He denies that his contract stipulates he must remain a bachelor, adding, “I don’t know how that silly story got started.” Doug McClure and Barbara Luna had @ very quict, dignified and “un-Holly- wood” wedding at the home of his par- ents in Pacific Palisades. Their honey- 100n had to be postponed because of his Checkmate” schedule and now Bar- bara may be going into “Bye, Bye Birdie.” They've leased a home in the Hollywood Hills. More wedding bells: Lorne Greene, . who once complained he never won the girl in his “Bonanza” series, has better Juck in real life, He married pretty young actress Nancy Ann Deale . . - Penny Parker of “Margie” eloped to Las Vegas with Edward Bright. a Beverly Hills business man. Deborah Walley has concluded Holly- wood is the place for her, will make this her permanent home instead of New York. And well she might! She'll re her Gidget role in “G. Goes To Paris ‘and is also slated for “Diamond Head.” You'll be seeing her in Disney's “Bon Voyage” soon. Her new heart interest is John “Straightaway” Ashley. END Is She A “Perfect” Wife? continued from page 28 but it wants heroes and heroines to pin its dreams on, Today the President and his wife appear to be symbols of Amer- ica’s dream of perfection. Jackie is not to blame for the fact that America has taken her to its heart, not simply as a glamourous and intelli- gent Lady, who is also a good mother—but as a woman who can do - virtually nothing wrong. She has never made such preposterous claims for herself. But some of the news gatherers, catering to the public mood, have painted a much too one-sided pic- ture of Jacqueline. In this picture she emerges not as a human wife with hu- but as the embodiment of 1 admire the man and woman in the White House. But I'm getting fed up with the legend that Jackie is a perfect wife—and that all anybody needs to do to assure perfect happiness in marriage is to copy her. Let's look first at the legends—and then at the reality. The legend: That Jacqueline Kennedy always puts her husband's interests first; that she is tremendously wrapped up in polities, and is always by her husband’s side in the White House. The truth: Jackie often puts her chil- dren's interests first. She realizes that when the children are at the White House, they cannot escape the pryi ‘of newspapermen and photographers. She feels that trying to insure some privacy for them is more important than being with the President on all impor- tant state occasions. Whenever possible, Jackie gets away for weekends with the children. A news: paperman figured out that during the month of March 1961, she spent only ight days at the White House. The rest of the time she was away from the hub of her hyshand’s activities. Jackie does not consider it important to bone up on every phase of politics so that she can discuss all the political problems with her husband. Her brother-in-law, Attorney’ General Robert Kennedy, said, “Jackie has ways kept her own identity. That's im- portant in a woman. What husband wants to come home and talk to another version of himself? Jack knows she'll never greet him with, ‘What's new in Laos?” Jackie herself admits that she rarely discusces polities with her husband. She told « reporter, “I think the best thing = stay oat of too much polit to an extreme. At some rallies she has Still, the true picture of Jackie is better than the legend of “the perfect wife.” If Jackie were as brilliant about polities as the legend implies, she and not her husband would be the proper President for the White House! The legend: She comes close to being 4 certified egghead who speaks French, ‘Spanish and Italian fluently and reads voraciously in history, biography and current affairs. The truth: Jackie is a good linguist. Her reading matter is not always as highbrow as the legend implies. In her eisure time, she will often skip the heavy books and read amusing or excit ing novels. The legend: er interests and those of her husband are very similar. The truth: How could they be? Her greatest interests are in music and art, culture, decoration, her children, and to ions. When it will help her husband, she duti an interest in politics. But her real feel- ings were revealed one day when she met an old friend at Hyannisport. Her eyes it up. She said, “Why didn’t you tell me you were in town? It's wonderful to see you! When I think of all those ‘awful politicians’ When she visited New York with her sister, she spent most iage is her career. “She Didn't Want to Be One, but Jackie's fe” (from the headlines in the “Los Angeles Mirror”). Jackie is a perfect housewife. The trath: Jackie is smart enough to realize that no woman can do every- thing. Many women take too seriously the idea that a woman can be glamourous, @ perfect housewife, a perfect mother, @ perfect hostess, ete. Trying to be per- fect at everything, they exhaust them- selves. We must never forget that Jackie has a large well-trained staff of servants. Women who are lucky if they can have — 1g woman come in once a month expect to accomplish everythi Jackie does. C herself, and supervise the house- aaflairs of the White House. Other before she became First Lady, Jackie had this gift for managing a home with . Robert Kennedy's wife, ‘once, “Jackie's house in ees was sach heaven and so well organis lways got depressed goit back to this madhouse.” (She was, re ferring to her own home in Virginis “The wheels go round constantly in Jackie's head.” Jackie applies businesslike methods to homemaking. For instance, take shop- ping. Women often go to supermarkets with no adequate idea of what they really need. No wonder shopping takes them hours—and then they discover later that they bought a lot of stuff they didn't need and failed to buy what they did need. Just as a businessman keeps an in- ventory, Jackie keeps lists on cards and in looseleat notebooks of supplies that are on hand in the pantry. If she needs anything, she puts it downi on a list. She also keeps clever lists showing what she has served to popular and frequent Euests, so that she won't keep serving the same thing to the same person over and over again. Jackie's been criticized for concen- trating too heavily on. French menus in view of the fact that the President prefers good” American menus, There have been times when she has done this. Still, she takes an interest in seeing to it that her husband is served good, healthy, well-balanced meals. Though she herself prefers French cuisine, when she discovered that her husband was get- t fed up on such dishes, she saw to the menu was frequently some- thing simple and nourishing, like a good home made soup, a roast and fresh vege- tables, or a potato or noodle casserole, Luella R. Hennessey, the nurse who took care of 17 babies in the Kennedy family, recalls that when the President and Jackie were alone, she rarely talked about world affairs, but would ask him, “Jack, are you taking time out for regu: lar meals? Are you getting enough sleep? What does Caroline say about the baby?” This was when Jackie was in the hospital, recovering from the birth of her second child, John, Jr. Of course, Jackie has excellent cooks to see that meals are prepared and served to perfection. But she herself used to send over hot lunches to his office in the Senate Office Building. 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It would be ab- surd to claim that if Jackie, like the average woman, could count on only a minimum of household help, she would still be able to run her household per- fectly and do everything else she does. Even when she was a Senator's wife, Jackie was smart enough to realize that ‘something's got to give. No woman can do everything and Jackie didn’t try to. She knew that it was an almost unwrit- ten law that all the Senator's wives got together for lunch every month. No Sen- ator's wife before Jackie had ever defied this rule. But Jackie yiolated it. She was and is smart enough to pick the things she thinks are important and do those —and drop the rest. The legend: Jackie is a pertect hostess The truth: This legend comes close to being true. Jackie is a gifted hostess Part of the secret is that she tries to avoid the too-large dinner parties that some of her predecessors attempted. She wisely limits most of her entertai to anywhere from eight to twelve guests. At diplomatic receptions Jackie sees to it that there is appropriate music, logs in the fireplaces, flowers carefully ar- ranged. Jackie actually is an almost per- fect exponent of the art of gracious liv ing. She doesn't believe that flowers should be arranged for the home by pro- fessional florists; then the arrangements look too professional, she feels. She to arrange flowers so that they will look well from any angle. Instead of having one big centerpiece, she scatters small the flowers always look lady of the house had interest in them and had arranged each flower personally. In one respect, however, Jackie's par- ties are not those of the perfect wife. Theoretically « wife should concentrate ‘on entertaining those people who will be most important to her husband's life or whom he likes best. To their dinner parties Jackie invites not only the im- portant statesmen she feels she and the President should entertain, but musi- cians, writers, and artists. At one ti her husband was not as enthusiastic about artists as Jackie. Art is still more of a cultivated than a natural taste with him. Sometimes, at the dinner table, the President will talk about politics with statesmen, while Jackie is discussing art or antiques or the latest book at her end of the table. The President, some friends say, has always loved crowds; might like larger parties than the small, intimate, candle- lit dinners Jackie prefers. But he lets her ave her way in the social domain. One happy result of limiting the dinner parties is that the Kennedys are able to speak to every guest personall The legend: Jackie is al dressed for every occasion. The trath: She usually is well-dressed. ‘The First Lady is smart enough never to overdress. But she has on occasion forgotten that as the First Lady she must present a perfect picture of decorum. In this respect she is like movie star who must never appear in public without looking glamourous. Occasionally Jackie has worn the wrong thing. If you and I were to go to church hatless, it might cause a little comment, but would soon be forgotten. When the First Lady does it—as she did at least once—she is hurting the image we expect of her and that her husband hhas a right to expect—that of a woman impeccably good taste. When the President and his wife vis ~ Italy's leading de- signer, Emilio Schuberth, felt that Amer- ica’s First Lady “showed entirely tow much of her knees. “The first lady of Anierica is elegant,” he wrote, “but she should wear longer skirts. The kneecap is always anti-aesthetic, even when one has beautiful legs, such as those of s Loren or Marlene Dietrich.” Mr. Schuberth hinted be didn’t think Jackie's legs were that lovely. “So. why does the first lady of America leave her kneecaps uncovered Some may say he was just carping. When Jackie does anything that merits criticism, it indirectly reflects on her husband. This is a tough spot to be in, However, I doubt if it worries the Presi dent. When he and Jackie were first married, he was not a meticulous dresser. and it was Jackie who taught him to ake a greater interest in clothes. Italy's icism of Jackie probably amused him. In France she was a decided hit, and the French people acclaimed her good looks, her clothes, and her hairdo, They called her “Ia belle Zhakee.” In fact, Jackie attracted so much fa- vorable attention in France that when the President spoke before ‘the Paris press club, he said laughingly. “I do not feel it inappropriate for me to intro- duce myself, I am the man who accom- panied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.” The legend: The marriage of Jack and Jackie has always been idyllically hap- py. There has never been any rough sailing for these two. The truth: Ob, come on! What mar- riage ever was like that? Certainly not the Kennedys’! In the early years of they had many adjust. jake. Her husband liked American dishes best; Jackie loved to serve French foods. He had only a mild interest in how he dressed, and even wore tennis shoes to the Senate. Jackie was sometimes irked by his lack of in- terest in his appearance. She was even more irked by the fact that he showed little interest in art and music. He pro ably wondered how so brilliant an “egg. head” could know s0 little about po ti /s perfect! EES GC) CGE Elma 150 GGBEe) Cee WEG GEE Bic Jackie, who was in the middle of a dif- ficult pregnancy, had not been able to join in the campaign. But she thought her husband would come home to her for solace. She was prepared to be the distraction she felt a man in politics needed. She was ready to lay aside her ‘own problems and comfort him. He preferred not to share his unhap- piness, but decided to leave for the Riviera. Jackie wasn't well enough to go with him. There were rumors that this was & trial separation. Jackie went to her he learned what had hap- pened, her husband rushed back to America and visited Jackie in the hos- pital. He was by her side constantly. He brushed aside his past disappointment in politics as inconsequential. All that mattered was Jackie's recovery and the renewal of their marriage. He was eager to do anything he could to help bring happiness to Jackie. ‘They must have talked over their dif- ferences, because John Kennedy and Jackie both changed after her hospital _ he began to uke a great interest in art. Jackie also told him that ‘she felt they'd been spending too much time with his parents, They'd been in the habit of dining with the senior Kennedys almost every night. They cut this down to once « week. This gave them more privacy. Jackie discovered that she didn't have to conform to all the customs and ideas ‘ofthe older Kennedys. She was free to be herself. When she and the Kennedys went on a picnic on a sloop together, the Kennedys ste from « hamper con: ing such American foods as ham- Answer To Crossword Puzsle IS 88G BOOED BOBwH! Om Bee) Eam@ao wf [S\ololrlo} SHEO Gaao ei Eln[-MUl>l<] [ealml-<|r ICE BOGSSHO AhSSS SS5GEEHE OOSSee instead of to rib him back. The result was delight- ful. Her in. ing herself. The legend: There is perfect “togeth- eres” between the President and Jackie. The truth: If President Kennedy and Jackie were constantly together, she would be a detriment to his work as President, instead of an asset. Long ago, Jackie reconciled herself to the fact that ‘the could not have a husband in public life and at the same time have him a constant companion. Jackie realizes she cannot always be with her husband. In fact, they weren't even together on their most recent an- niversary. Knowing it would be dificult for them to be together on their actual anniversary, they celebrated it early by spending a weekend together at their summer home in Hyannisport, Massa- chusetts. Jackie believes that her most impor- tant responsibility in life is seeing. th her children lead a happy, normal li She is rarely away from the chi leaves them with trusted nurses only when the occasion is urgent. When the President was busy con- sulting a top authority about atomic testing, Jackie was walking across the White House yard with Caroline. The nurse pushed John Jr.'s buggy. Also, while the President was engrossed in official duties, Jackie played with Caro- ine in her white playhouse. She probably spends more of her time with the children than with her husband. Is this the mark of a perfect or imper- fect wife? It depends on your viewpoint as to what « perfect wife is. Some m: age authorities suggest sacrificing time with the children in order to spend more time with your husband. Jackie doesn’t do this—and the President probably would not like it if she did. Jackie isn't mad about the idea of constant public appearances at her husband's side, or traveling with him everywhere, but does it whenever he asks her to or when she feels she should, When her husband paid his first official it to a foreign country—Canade she went with him. In Canada she won friends and influenced people, inclu the Governor General and the Prime Minister. She and the President both took part in such ceremonies as digging a few spadefuls of dirt to help plant trees on the grounds of Government House. Jackie also accompanied her husband to Paris, Vienna and London. But after the President had to leave Europe to g0 back to the United States, Jackie lin- gered in London for a visit with her sister and brother-in-law, Princess Rad- ziwill and Prince Radziwill, and then (continued on page 64) ee Se oe ee NEW LEISURE ALL WRAP-AROUND TERRY ‘AROUNI Por" ist and long sash for lim-Look." 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And this is one of the flaws in the marriage of President Kennedy and Jackie. When John Kennedy was a Senator and decided to undergo a difficult, da gerous operation to help reduce the pai from his back injury, Jackie stayed by his bedside, comforting him, doing her best to hide her fears, Inwardly fright- ened, she remained outwardly calm. During his convalescence, Jackie did everything she could to nurse him back to health. He acknowledged how won- derful she had been in his dedication of his book, “Profiles In Courage. ice Jackie had helped her husband so much during his illness, you would think that when a resurgence of the back trouble struck him, he would have turned to her again. However, he decided to keep the bad news from her, During their travels together in Europe last year (1961) he was extremely casual about his back trouble; he urged her to go ahead with her plans for a vacation in Greece. And Jackie went. If she were the perfect wife legend is her as being, Jackie would have known that the President was suffering But agony, and refused to leave his he did such a good job of conce: his suffering that she was able him, without too much worry. Only after he came back to Washing. My favorite MEN STARS are: om (2). (3) @_ (5) Address. $50 GIVEN AWAY FREE! To the first 50 readers who fill out this coupon and mail $1.00 each. At the same have the satisfaction of voting for your favorite stors of movies, TV and records, and helping us to plan our mogari + Paste ballot below on a postal card and mail it to Editor, SILVER SCREEN, 355 Lexington Ave The features | like best in this issue of Silver Screen om (2). ton, did the nation discover what the President had concealed from Jackie— that he'd been in great pain. Though his conduct was heroic, shouldn't the perfect wife have seen through the act he put on? The answer, of course, is that Jackie is a fine woman bat not a perfect wife. Is this terrible? Is it so disillusioning that the First Lady of the land is not perfect? * The whole idea of trying to be per fect is nonsense. Prominent psycholo- gists have said that the attempt to be perfect wives is turning a lot of women imto helpless neuroties, To help such women, Dr. Harold J. Hoxie of the Glen- dale Medical Center wrote out a list of suggestions for periectionists. He in- cluded this statement: “This is not a perfect world. Families and friends have plenty of foibles. Perfection is rarely at- red, 80 be satisfied with less. Be ef- icient, yes, but not to the extent that perfection becomes a burden.” Jackie Kennedy is not a perfect wife. She is not a perfect woman. Let's stop this idolatry. It is nonsense, and will eventually make life more ficult for her. No woman—not even our wonderful First Lady—can live up to the unattainable standards she is supposed to have reached. Jackie Kennedy is 2 good wife. bat not a perfect one—thank Heaven for that. 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