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Certainly in my own family I’ve had an example of a bad marriage followed by a good one. My own mother had two unfortunate experiences before she met and married Joseph Olson, to whom she’s married now. And the experiences she had with Roy Scherer (my father ) and Roy Fitzgerald (my stepfather) seem only to underline her current happiness. If mother and Joe can he so happy and have such good limes together, why should I rule out another try at having a good marriage?” Marilyn, as if directly answering Rock's question, says quietly (as if she were talking about someone she was not romantically involved with), “Knowing him as I do. I think he'll get married again.” He says he’s ready to get married again ; she says he’s going to get married again; and according to one reporter, “They’re genuinely fond of each other, Rock is a fine pal to her son of a previous marriage, and their friends wouldn’t be at all displeased to see them wind up Mr. and Mrs.”; columnist Louella Parsons says, “I’d place a bet right now that Marilyn and Rock will get married.” And even Marilyn’s ex-husband, screen writer Jerry Davis, says — as recorded by Dorothy Kilgallen — that she will “waltz down the aisle with Rock Hudson.” But the final question still remains: When are they going to take the plunge? The inside scoop on this is provided by N.Y. Mirror columnist Sheilah Graham. “Rock Hudson has been pricing wedding rings for the third finger, left hand of Marilyn Maxwell,” she reveals, and goes on to say, “I never really believed these two would marry — it seemed more like a friendship of convenience. I’ve changed my mind.” Looks like wedding bells — and soon, doesn't it? Perhaps even before this article gets from typewriter to printing press. Rock is the sort of fellow who takes a long time to make up his mind, but when he does (remember his no-announcement, no-advance-warning elopement with Phyllis Gates), wow! — Jae Lyle See Rock in “A Gathering of Eagles,” then “Man’s Favorite Sport,” both U.I. Marilyn’s next is “Critic’s Choice,” Warners. Continued from page 47 And self-pity. He wastes emotional energy in dredging up bitter childhood memories, in recounting his fight to make a dollar, in denouncing Hollywood for ignoring him for so many years when success came to others so sweet and easy. You can show him a hundred stars who made it the same way he did, who climbed the ladder rung by painful rung, but he still wants to know why Hollywood had to make it so hard for him — Vince Edwards. “He’s a funny guy.” says one of his friends — of whom, incidentally, there are many in spite of his grim approach to life. “He’s never happy unless he’s complaining. It’s time to forget how tough it used to be — it’s good now and that’s all that counts. But Vince can't forget. He broods.” He sat there, thinking of Vince brooding about his poverty-stricken childhood among the Brooklyn tenements. And how Vince said. “I remember black fire escapes running across dirty gray buildings.” And. “All the women seemed to have been born gray, and the men were never young.” And how he. Vince, had rickets from malnutrition. But he recovered and grew up a hefty kid after all. An athlete, even. Isn’t money everything? “Why can't he he happy?” his friend burst out. “Most people want to be happy — but Vince keeps hitting himself over the head with what’s past and buried. What a pity, what a waste of sweet success! If ever a man should be bubbling with joy, he’s the man.” There’s no doubt that Vince Edwards has plenty to be happy about, if he’d let himself go. He’s making big money. He has all the fame and adulation he dreamed of when he first came to Hollywood and got nothing but a big pushing around. Things are certainly different now. Vince earns $5,000 a week for “Ben Casey” and that’s just the beginning. He gets 10 per cent of the show’s net profits. He makes personal appearances. There are all those juicy merchandising tie-ins that could happen only to a star whose personality has so fantastically captured the public imagination. There are deals whereby he’ll make TV films for his own corporation. And above all, if he hadn’t hit it big as Dr. Ben Casey, who knows if he’d have been tapped for the star role in “The Victors” — fine actor though he is. Of course he was a fine actor before he became a TV doctor, but no one paid him $150,000 for one single picture, as the producers of “The Victors” did. “But those are the facts of Hollywood life,” shrugged another friend of Vince’s. “When you’ve got it, they give you more. When you’re a star, they all want you. The tough part is making it to stardom. Vince finally made it and we’re all happy for him. Everybody’s happy — but Vince. He’s still sore because it came so hard.” He shrugged again. “I suppose eleven years of being practically ignored can bite deep into any man.” Abner Greshler. Vince’s agent, makes a happy prediction for his star: At the rate Vince is going, within a few years he’ll have a million dollars “free and clear.” Then he can do anything he wants. He can retire before he’s thirty-five and live off his capital. Or he can make only the pictures