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make a romance last, that in order to hold a guy you have to work at it?
DIRECTOR JEAN NEGULESCO. like the other men <vho have interested Ann, rated high in her ihief requirement — a good sense of humor.
:ESAR ROMERO has long found Ann the ideal arty companion. Both love to dance and ask othing from each other but a gay evening.
PUBLICITY MAN STEVE HANNAGAN was Ann Sheridan's steady beau for five years. They never married, however, and Ann broke off the romance when she felt he had become too possessive — he wanted her to live in Connecticut, safely away from the rival males of New York.
romantically. Could it be that Annie's .ove-life is jinxed by the jokes, too?
One of Ann's current loves is Jacques Mapes, the set designer. She adores Jacques pecause he's always thinking up gags to imuse her. Ann still roars over the stunt le pulled when she left for Europe to ;tar with Cary Grant in / Was A Male War Bride. Jacques called a group of the soys together, put mourning bands on their deeves, and that's how they went to the itation to see Ann off. She couldn't have tppreciated Jacques more if he had given aer a million roses. And she called him rom Germany twice a week sometimes, ust to yak all over again at the joke.
You can imagine what a delight Ann's ree-and-easiness is for a man like Clark
Gable. Clark hates "problem" girls — that is, girls who want to fall in love with him or get married, Ann wants neither. She merely wants a good time with him. They've known each other for years and when Ann and Steve Hannagan broke up after five years of close companionship, Clark called her, they had a few dates, a few laughs and started a few rumors.
I wonder if Ann was really in love with Steve Hannagan. Even after they called it quits, they were still good friends. (When he came to Hollywood "on business," as he said, she dined with him nearly every night — out of habit?) When you have loved someone madly, you usually hate them just as intensely — for a period, anyway— when it's all over. I think Annie
kept going with Stevie all that time because she just didn't want to bother breaking things up.
Ann had been grateful to Steve, of course, when he unofficially took over the management of her career. He fought with her studio for two years while Annie waited complacently in New York for him to win her career battles. It was only when he finally became too possessive and insisted on where she should live (he wanted her to live in Connecticut and not in New York because, I'm told, he was jealous of the New York playboys), that Annie finally found the necessary energy to come back to Hollywood and lead her own happy-golucky, carefree, easygoing life here.
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