Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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Marta stopped her dancing lessons, and after finishing her required education, held a job in the Swedish War Office, but she was unable to forget her teacher's advice and the idea of acting excited her. So it was that when the Royal Dramatic Academy of Sweden announced a few openings for new members, Marta Toren was one of the 112 applicants. Only four boys and four girls were chosen. Marta was among them. Marta had been working for some months when an American screen writer arrived at the Academy. For his own amusement, he wanted to look over the school's students, remembering that Garbo, Hasso and Bergman had all studied there. He was unimpressed with the classes he saw, but finally he met Marta. "Can you speak English?" he asked. "Ja," said Marta. He pulled a letter from his pocket which he had recently received from America and asked her to read it aloud. Marta stumbled through it, but because of her face and figure, the writer would have been impressed even had she been unable to read her own language. Out of his own funds he paid for a screen test to be made, and sent it back to Hollywood. Automatically, he changed from writer to agent when the Universal-International studio cabled him to sign Marta Toren. Marta didn't jump at the chance. Such a decision would require leaving her country, her home and her family. It was three months before she decided that she must take the chance. If she stayed in Sweden she would undoubtedly have a successful stage career, but the lure of the United States was strong, and she knew that if she turned it down she would wonder all her life what she had missed. TJaving arrived in New York she was xx amazed at the American way, or rather the Hollywood way, of doing things. She was steered by her chaperone to all the so-called right places, where she would be seen and photographed. She was highly embarrassed by this procedure, but even more upset over the fact that she was not allowed to taste a banana split. A Swedish friend had been to America years ago and had brought home a glowing report of the concoction. "Honey," said her protector, "you just can't go into a drug store and sit at a counter. You simply can't." "Why not?" Marta wanted to know, and the reason given confused her. It seemed that she was to be seen only at "21," the Waldorf-Astoria and the Stork Club. "But that is not me," protested Marta. "I want to see what an American drugstore is like, and I want a banana split." "Nothing doing," came the answer. One day when no one was looking, Marta stole down the hall of the hotel, into the elevator and then across the street to a drugstore. She had her banana split and she loved it. Almost better than that, she liked the young clerk who slid the dish across the counter to her. "Here y'are, sweetheart," he said. Marta beamed and retorted with what she considered to be the height of American slang. "You bet!" she said. Tt made her day brighter, that excursion. A For the first time since her arrival she had a taste of freedom and a chance to be herself, and from then on she balked at every effort made to change her into a stereotyped Hollywood personality. "JJ you want bathing beauties," she told henew bosses, "you have them around the corner. If you wanted me for what I was m Sweden, please let me stay that way." There have been many lessons for her to learn. In Sweden, people do not speak to strangers until they are properly introduced, and so it was that in the early days m Hollywood Marta made herself a reputation on the set of being haughty and aloof. Once she learned that she wa< expected to smile and speak to them first she was charmed with the idea. The day she was introduced by her agent to the late Sam Wood, she bowed her head and curtsied. Afterward her agent exploded. "Good Lord!" he said. "You're a grown woman! You don't curtsey now!"' "But Mr. Wood is a director." "That doesn't make him any different from anyone else," said her agent, and Marta accepted this new idea. To date Marta has appeared in seven movies (her latest is Spy Hunt), all of them the cloak-and-dagger type, and her roles have required that she play the heavy-lidded fly in the international ointment. This isn't Marta Toren. Her ideal role would be a modern "Camille," or sophisticated comedy. She'd like to try both, and in these roles audiences would see the real Marta for the first time. As Marta says, "I can do none of the things like Betty Grable. I cannot dance or sing, so the only thing I can do is talk." And after she has talked, especially to her fans, they tell her that she isn't the femme fatale they had expected, but a really warm and delightful person. IVow that she has mastered the English language (and amazingly well in three years) and learned the technique required m motion pictures, she has a future planned. She wants to marry and have children, but she hopes they will understand her urge to act because she knows that if they don't, her frustration will bounce back at their innocent heads. "If they let me do what I must do, it could be that I would enjoy the cooking." During her first months in America, Marta felt divided in loyalty. Although she had fallen in love with the United States, she still felt the tug of her own land, and wasn't certain she wanted to stay here. Her first trip back to Sweden settled her mind immediately. It was good to see family and old friends once more, and most of all her nephew Dag, who returns her adoration. He slipped past the policemen at the dock and threw himself into her arms. But things in Sweden didn't seem the same, and Marta learned the new truth of the saying, "You can't go home again." On her return she rented a house in Beverly Hills and filled it with the gay color that is so dear to her Swedish heart. There are Swedish books on the shelves, but Marta seldom reads them these days' She reads English much faster. She thinks, and even dreams in English, so it would seem that there is no longer a question in her mind as to where she belongs. She is studying now to obtain her American citizenship. "I live here. I eat here. I use the highways. It is my home," she says. The End Paid Notice Are Yon As Popular As You Should Be? SEE PAGE 16