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For Alan Ladd, it was the day of fulfillment — the day he tied a ribbon to the door of a newly-built house and wrote on a card . . .
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Alan confers with Jezebel on the patio. The Ladds had large windows put on rooms facing the patio "to bring the California outdoors inside." Pool is in background.
■ Like all of us, Alan Ladd's a product of .his early influences. He wanted a couch in the bedroom of the new house. He likes to flop down on something, and you don't flop down on a bed till the spread's been removed — that's one thing his mother was always strict about. She couldn't stand hearing doors slam, so Alan's kids are trained not to slam doors. She had a great tenderness for animals — even when food was scarce, she'd manage to feed any pup that needed a hand-out. So today there are four dogs at the Ladd house, and a baker's dozen up at the ranch.
When he's not working, Alan loves to sleep late, and does. But with a guilty conscience. His stepfather — who was generally in bed by nine o'clock — thought that sleeping past .six was the badge of a sluggard. Right now there's some building going on at the ranch, and the carpenters start their hammering early. Sue wanted to stop them one morning, so Alan could sleep. He wouldn't let her. "They'll think I'm a lazy actor."
He's an unobtrusive but consistent check-grabber. Once to a friend who protested, he replied: "I hate wrangling at the table. Seems a little juvenile. If you didn't have the money, you wouldn't be sitting there eating in the first place. Besides, I get a bang out of taking the check. There were so many years when I couldn't have picked it up for a blueplate special."
Yes, like everyone, Ladd's a product of his past. But people react differently to the same stimuli. In some, early hardships create lasting resentments. Others, having won the battle, soon learn to take the victory for granted. Alan belongs to neither group. Success finds him humble, grateful and incredulous. In spite of tangible evidence to the con