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Pressures of being a full-time movie goddess consume Kim and she knows little inner peace
been manipulated like a puppet on a string — a very valuable puppet, to be sure, but still an inanimate object. Kim is merely another in the long list of screen goddesses who, in gaining star status, has been asked to give up her friends, the right to choose her clothes, her living arrangements, what kind of car to drive, what night spots to pass up, even the tvpe of man with whom to fall in love."
As Kim, with fire in her eyes, explained, "The studio has been like a parent to me but some day every person has to stand on his own two feet. It's like a teenage girl who starts to choose a dress and her mother says, 'Oh, no, dear, that wouldn't look good on you.' The mother and the studio mean well but a girl must start making her own decisions. A lot of the bad publicity I've received in the past has been the result of someone else's doing. Now I'm going to answer the questions myself. I may make some mistakes but they will be my mistakes."
Hollywood's glamour goddesses have always chafed at the price they must pay for stardom. At first a docile-seeming Kim accepted her lot in mournful resignation. Later, there was less of the plaintive childlike whimper and more of the prima donna's war whoop. And always she has accompanied her rebellion with floods of tears.
EARLY in her career's "docile" days, a co-worker revealed "Kim was told to move from her modest apartment to the Studio Club, a tightly supervised establishment for aspiring young actresses, on orders of the late studio boss Harry Cohn. Once for three months she was ordered to move into her studio dressing room, and never told why. For nearly three years, Harry Cohn allegedly called her every night to check on her whereabouts.
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LOVELY Kim takes acting lessons as often as she can. "I want to be a good actress, not merely a beautiful woman," she insists.
HAUNTING eyes, wonderful cheekbones, a beautiful face that is coupled with a delectable figure have made Kim a famous star.
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