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Throw away all the old publicity you've read about Alan Ladd and Sue Carol. For here,
BY ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
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PERSONALLY— and after investigation— I doubt if Alan Ladd is like anybody else in the world. The first time I met him I must frankly admit I looked upon him chiefly as Sue Carol's husband, because I am very fond of Sue and hoped for her happiness. She had brought him down to my house at Malibu one Sunday and I remember only two things vividly. First, I thought — this man has physical grace beyond anyone I have seen since Nijinsky. That is the way man was intended to move, that kind of grace is almost hypnotic. And second, Sue is quite safe with this man; he is dangerous, he is violent,
but he has been badly hurt himself and so he will never want to hurt anyone else; he will be careful, no matter what his temper or his jealousy or his temptations, not to hurt anyone he loves because he knows what it is like — and that proves an emotional understanding rare in youth.
Most of the stories about Alan Ladd to date begin and end with his marriage to lovely little Sue Carol. You know that story well by this time. How Sue, as clever as she is pretty, became an actors' agent when she stopped acting in pictures, how she took a client named Alan Ladd who up to that time had been ridiculously and
awkwardly cast as a sweet and smiling juvenile, and, aware of his dangerous and dynamic power, shrewdly bid for and got him the part of the deadly, cold, pathetic killer in "This Gun For Hire" and then married him.
Now there's a new chapter in their small daughter Alana, born while her Daddy was in the Army, as so many babies are being born today, though in this case Alan was lucky enough to be by his wife's side when the baby came. And there's a nursery furnished in the pretty home up in the Los Feliz hills above Hollywood — the house where Bing and Dixie Crosby spent the first years of their married life.