Talking Screen (Jan-Aug 1930)

Love Insurance {^Continued from page 71} contend young people work better when they are happily married. They themselves married when both were under age and went on the stage together in Portland, Oregon. Infatuation insurance' sounds like a sensible thing for producers to have," declared Mrs. Gleason. "But not love insurance. If it is true love, it should not prove a distraction, but an aid, to work. On the other hand, an infatuation is very likely to destroy a player s ambition." Sue Carol and Nick Stuart have announced their marriage. Theirs has been one of the most talked of love affairs in Hollywood and has brought them pages and pages of publicity. Sue has been married before. Quite a bit of her picture career was built up on the newspaper space her engagement to Stuart brought her. She has had about three years to decide if she was too young to marry Nick. NATALIE MOORHEAD, one of the film city's" most stunning blondes and a recent recruit from the legitimate stage, has perhaps the most philosophical answer for the question of love insurance. "I do not believe that love either hurts or helps a career, " she said. 'It is just a passing incident in life which is soon forgotten if unpleasant. Love can lift you to the heights or sink you to the depths of despair. But my viewpoint on the matter is this: A business man who is married, concentrates on his business duties while in his office.So, why should not an actor or actress close the door on personal things when engaged in the business of acting? By that I mean careers and personal affairs should be kept entirely separate." Insurance is all right in its place, contends Robert Armstrong. But it has no place in the matter "of love, he says. He met and fell in love with Jeanne Kent, a young Hollywood actress, while he was in New York, playing with Jimmy Gleason in the Gleason stage hit. Is Zat So. "Falling in love didn't make my work on the stage go all haywire," said Armstrong. "It made me more ambitious, if anything. I knew if I wanted to marry I would have to make a success of acting so I could give my wife the best things in life." The problem of love insurance and the film player is pondered over by William Maybery, casting director for first National, with the resultant comment: "Love and marriage in real life is such .in absorbing mental and emotional experience that It temporarily at least, robs the player of that abstraction from life around him so necessary to portray story roles. Actors have to live in a dream, and marriage and love — well, it isn't that sort of a dream !" 'ILA LEE seems an outstanding example of marriage interfering with a career. She married James Kirkwood six years ago when ascending the motion picture scale. They bought a ranch and moved into the country. Lila gave birth to a son. She was out of reach of the studios. Work became scarce. At the same time her husband was having hard luck. They lost the ranch. Lila says frankly that for two years she didn't have a new dress. About two years ago they separated and a change for the better occurred. Today, Miss Lee is far more important in the industry than she was when she married and is doing excellent work in talking pictures. Harry Richman, popular Broadwayite and now a him actor, replied when asked if fie thought love interfered with a career: "My Heavens no, it is a career in itself." Of course, Mr. Richman couldn't be expected to feel otherwise at the time engaged as he was to Clara Bow. "I was married 1918," he said seriously. "It was a great disappointment to me when ; it turned out to be a failure." "Men need responsibilities for success. Marriage is the greatest responsibility of all. It is the greatest thing in the world, I am for it — career or no career. " Elinor Fair was at the height of her career when she and William Boyd were married. She had just played the lead in The Volga Boatman, when they eloped and were secretly wed. It was rumored at the time in Hollywood that Cecil B. De Mille was much displeased.' Whatever the reaction of the studio, it is true that Miss Fair was allowed to drop back uritil she entirely passed from the picture world. Now that she is divorced she may flash back into prominence as Lila Lee has done. It was written in Vera Reynold's contract with Cecil B. De Mille that she was not to marry, so she and Robert Ellis slipped off to Europe and were quietly married. The ceremony was kept secret until Vera's contract expired two years later, and then announced to the world. ANTHONY BUSHELL never was in love ^ until he met Zelma O'Neal, his wife of a year. He hasn't changed his mind at all in that year. "Love is the only thing which puts a fellow on his feet and makes him stay put" — says Tony. "What good would love insurance do you? " asked the pert little Mrs. Zelma O'Neal Bushell. 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