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JIM GARNER continued
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TIME spent with Kimberly or his baby, Greta, is treasured by Jim. He's currently starring in Warners' movie "Up Periscope."
his loved ones. On big Jim the results are not only becoming, they're most deserving because he's dedicated his enthusiastic heart to making his marriage number one in importance on his personal poll.
"In 1956 when I met Lois (Qarke) at a Hollywood friend's house," Jim recalls, "I was still drifting around and pretty obscure, as far as pictures were concerned. We were married a month and a half later and my life up to this phase is now a familiar story. What I've never told before, is this:
"Those who knew me fairly well were skeptical. What did Lois and I have in common, they asked. Here I was a big fellow (6 feet, 3 inches tall), crazy about sports and almost too realistic. Lois was petite, they pointed out, she was the indoor type and not too practical. No one stopped to consider that what I lacked she had, and vice versa. So they spoke their piece and now I can speak mine. On the 17th of next August, Lois and I will celebrate our third wedding anniversary and, while I've always been a dreamer, I guess, even I never dreamed these last three years could bring so much happiness. Isn't it ironic that now I'm "a homebody, I'm playing a drifter with no home ties!"
When Jim, Lois and her daughter, Kimberly, by a former marriage (Jim worships the 10-year-old and refers to her as — "that little doll!"), started out together, they didn't have money enough for a house and furniture. So they rented a modest walk-up apartment that wasn't too far from the studio. Then they bought a couch, dining room set, bedroom furniture and had every intention of adding things that eventually would fit into their own home.
"The way it's worked out," Jim explains, "we've added very little and are still living in the apartment. There has been little time and no opportunity for anything but hard work. But now we are near to having that home, probably within a year. Needless to say, the prospect is very exciting."
Unlike another box-office star whose studio just furnished his house in lieu of a bonus, Jim Garner has an independent streak that matches his sturdy muscles. He wants nothing for free, he finds a certain satisfaction in earning what he deserves and could never appreciate anything that is given to
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WANTING his children to be normal, Jim discourages any notion that there may be special privileges in having a^famous father.