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By BILL TUSHER
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How have the Curtises kept their
marriage from going stale? "All that's needed
is love*9 says Janet, "not gimmicks"
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LT WAS QUITE A bustling household that morning on the second floor of the bleached brick Curtis mansion in the fashionable Benedict Canyon altitudes of Beverly Hills.
Focal point of the activity was the spacious, sun-drenched room of all purposes at the head of the stairs which were fenced off with a white gate for the protection of the children. The baby's nurse, Ginny, looking like a credit to her occupation in her crisply starched white uniform, was dutifully streaking after 10-months-old Jamie, who tore on all pudgy little fours across the carpeted floor and up the furniture like an overwound mechanical toy. Janet Leigh's slender mother, also in a smart white outfit, was in and out with the equally indefatigable elder of the two Curtis girls, three-year-old Kelly Lee.
Janet herself reclined contentedly captive in a club chair. Her feet were up on an ottoman as Gladys, another white uniformed retainer, gave her a pedicure and manicure. As she received these attentions, Mrs. Tony Curtis was comfortably attired in black pedal pushers and a sleeveless black blouse. Somewhere in the city, away from the happy furore of home, her husband was off attending to his own business.
"I haven't sat down this long in five weeks," Janet chortled. "But as you can see, even so there's never a dull moment."
The lovely Mrs. Curtis thereby inadvertently pinpointed one of the secrets of how she and Tony manage year in and year out to keep their marriage as fresh as the day it was consummated.
"How could there be a dull moment?" she cried. "How could there be — with Tony for a husband, Kelly and Jamie for children, me for a mother, our way of life, and this business we're in?"
That wide variety of interests and constant activity have helped maintain the high level of enthusiasm in their marriage, but there are other factors which make them a phenomenon in this coastal celluloid kingdom where so many domestic wreckages are washed up on the shores of ennui and disenchantment.
One of them is the sometimes snickered-over philosophy of togetherness. Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, however, pay more than lip service to the ideal of togetherness. They may not deliberately live it, but the term describes them. They have a standing rule never to work at the same time unless it is in the same picture. Otherwise whenever and wherever one is before the cameras, the other tags along, usually replete with children. They are appalled at the idea of being apart for as long as a week. Despite the fact that they are man and wife, they happen to enjoy each other's company.
Yet one of the chief reasons their marriage has not gone stale is their refusal to permit themselves to be strangled by togetherness. It is no accident that when
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