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Brenda, star of "Background To Danger," proudly displays her lieutenant-husband, Bill Holden, in a brief moment of furlough fun
WHEN Bill left for camp I felt I couldn't go on without him. I was too bewildered, too hurt by all these sudden changes in our plans to even think straight. I tried to keep up outwardly, but inwardly I was a wreck. I'm glad I managed to send my husband away with a smile, but when I returned home after driving him to the station that awful day and entered this silent house, I went to pieces. I wasn't a bit brave.
Then slowly in the quiet, I could see Bill, and I remembered how gallantly he was making his sacrifices — without a single squawk. I was rebuked. I still had so many things to be grateful for, yet here I was, acting like a weepy Eighteenth Century heroine, instead of a working girl with a job to do, and a home to keep up. For him, when he returns.
Suddenly, I realized that girls and women all over the world were facing
this very same problem. I was no different from the rest. We may live in different lands, but broken home ties, love and loneliness are the same in every language. And each of us carries the inspiring memory of her man going out to fight the enemy so he may retain his freedom, his family and his home.
I've always been shy and diffident, slow in making friends, but now I was swept with a warm understanding and sympathy for all wives wherever they might be. War had made us sisters, sharing the same heartaches, struggling to learn a new way of living, and trying to fit ourselves into a strange world without the protection, companionship, and devotion of the man we love.
I have received many letters from the wives and sweethearts of men in the armed forces. Most of them say, "You are much luckier than we are. You are an actress, your life is full of excitement, things are happening all
the time. You have the opportunity to turn to many new interests and meet many people. But what about us? When our men go away there is nothing left but loneliness. We have nothing to turn to."
I've tried to answer as many of these letters as possible and now, through the pages of Photoplay-Movie Mirror, I hope to reach many more. Yes, it is true that an actress does have a colorful life. She meets interesting people, her life is full of novelty and change. But remember this: every woman in love, regardless of her walk in life, must meet the same challenge. And an actress is just as lonely when the man she adores is taken from her as any other wife.
At first my loneliness was overwhelming; it swept over me like a hurricane. Then gradually, as adjustment after adjustment was made, the realization came to me one day that
photoplay combined with movie mirror, july, 1943