Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

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"I can't stand seeing myself on the screen!" he expostulated, "I never do." Realizing he had been a bit abrupt, Dick offered to make amends by taking Val to dinner and dropping her by the projection room later. When the day was almost over, word reached Val that the print wouldn't be available after all. She sent a message to Dick and a message came back. It read: "Even if they lost the print — did you lose your appetite?" It was Monday night, the night most restaurants close in Hollywood. Dick remembered the Sportsman's Lodge in the Valley. It was charming, tables overlooked the lake and waterfall, and if they ran out of conversation they could always feed the ducks! Besides, it was open seven nights a week. Dick remembers that Val's eyes were shining like two bright stars. When he got home he couldn't recall a single word they had said to each other! He only recalled that he had enjoyed himself very much. Unschooled in the ways of Hollywood, Val was surprised and a bit shocked when an item appeared the following morning in a gossip column. Someone handed Dick the paper just before they broke for lunch. The columnist, adhering to an old Hollywood custom, assured the readers authoritatively that it definitely was not a romance. "That's what she thinks!" Dick mused to himself. From that moment on, it was a marathon for Dan Cupid. Dick's scenes had to be rushed because he was due to depart for Germany to make "Decision Before Dawn." When bad weather delayed him, he found reasons to drop by the set and watch Val before the camera. They managed to squeeze in another enchanting evening at Sportsman's Lodge. At a studio-exhibitor's luncheon, Dick showed up with a book on Italy. "I hope you will visit my beautiful country while you are in Europe," she had wistfully said. Val marked pages and underscored the names of little restaurants and villages that for her held tender memories. From Germany, Dick wrote, cabled, telephoned. Back in Hollywood, unaware of the studio grapevine, Val thought no one knew she was sneaking up to the Still Department to collect all the production poses they had made together! Before he could visit her beloved grandmother in Stresa, Dick was called home to shoot a new ending for "Fourteen Hours." The fans who idolize him resented his dying in the original version. In the meantime, Val had been loaned to J. Arthur Rank to make "The Secret People" in London. "If Val hadn't still been here when I returned," Dick shakes his head sadly at the prospect, "I think I would have turned right around and flown back again. Fortunately for both of them, Val had to hang around for wardrobe tests. The period that followed can best be described as happy, hectic, hysterical! Val. an emotional Italian, and Dick, who looks like a placid Scandinavian {he's French and English), felt like they'd swallowed a couple of pin wheels! They went to parties at the homes of mutual friends. They dined everywhere — LaRue's, Perino's, Drive-Ins, Peppino's, a little spot at Malibu that remains nameless and nostalgic. Half-child, half-woman, Val would clasp her hands ecstatically. "Molto-simpatico," she'd whisper to Dick after a courteous waiter departed with her order. "Sempre tesoro" — literal translation, "Always, my treasure," were the words on the card that accompanied his daily bouquet of her favorite chrysanthemums. There were minor quarrels — lovers quarrels. "I am not good for Dick," she cried. "He is sensitive, he has already had too much unhappiness. It is the end. I would only hurt him." "Val is an angel," Dick declared. "But I am set in my ways. I'm afraid I can't change." A flower, a phone call, a kind word, a small deed. In less time than it takes to tell, they were radiantly happy again. With no immediate picture waiting for Dick, those trans-Atlantic calls and cables to Val, who was now in England, only made their separation more unbearable. When he took a friendly studio suspension {voluntarily going off salary) Dick flew to London. He arrived on the 4th of March, Val started her picture on the 15th. There were makeup tests, wardrobe fittings, odd moments in-between for sightseeing. One day they were positively sure that they couldn't wait another day to get married. Another day they were positively sure that marriage was out of the question! Two days before the big moment, they suddenly realized their misgivings were wrong and a marriage was right. Val was working, so Dick searched Piccadilly for the wide chain wedding ring they both wanted. Shops were closing for the Easter holidays, so at the eleventh hour, Dick frantically selected a ring of somewhat similar pattern. Having forgotten about Val's tiny hands, the ring spun on her finger! On March the 24th, with her good friend Guliana Headley as main witness, they were married in Caxton Hall, London. They spent their wedding night at the oldest inn in England, built in 1135 and steeped in traditional old-world charm. Because she wanted to take her new husband to Stresa and surprise the 80year-old grandmother who had raised her, Val swore Dick to secrecy. Hollywood might still be speculating if official red tape hadn't caught up with them. Back home again, Dick proceeded to arrange for the grand and glorious arrival of the new Mrs. Basehart. Entering this country on a visitor's visa is relatively simple. For the wife of an American citizen, the formalities are something akin to a gigantic jig-saw puzzle. When 68