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LOVE IS LIFE TO
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Otto Kruger is a man of impulses and. unlike most of us, he follows them. He proposed to his wife on the first night that he met her. He has been married for fifteen years and during that time he has been in love hundreds of times. He admits it. He falls in love with every leading woman with whom he plays.
"I couldn't live without being in love," he explains. "My wife knows all about it and she understands. Love is life itself to me."
He admits that he has been in love with so many women that he can't begin to remember all their names. And he is sincere about it. His love-making is a very real thing to him. He showers the lady of his immediate passion with candy, flowers and attentions. And his wife understands, that's the amazing part of it.
"I was out here alone in Hollywood for nine months. My wife and little daughter were in New York. I wrote and told her that this is no town for a wife. It's a man's
SEPTEMBER, 1934
And that's why Otto Kruger is the screen's latest romantic rave
by CLARK WARREN
town. Wives are beaten before they start in Hollywood. They haven't a chance. To prove it to my wife, I took her to the studio. I showed her hundreds of alluring chorus girls in scanty garments. I told her to believe everything she hears about me for it will probably be true. You see, my wife and I, when we were married, agreed upon something we call our twenty-five year plan. Part of it was complete freedom for each other. We've followed it out, so far, with considerable success and it's the best defense against Hollywood I know."
When Otto was informed that he was to be groomed for romantic leads, he hit the ceiling. He didn't want to be a great screen lover. He had been one of Broadway's leading character actors for fifteen years and he felt .that the brand of having sex appeal, which the movies wanted to tack on to him, was a brand of shame. It made him look like a sissy.
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