Hollywood (1939)

man had terrific pride, and worked like the devil trying to make enough to pay for all his wife's extravagant purchases. Sometimes, pointing to some new mink coat she had bought, he would ask her why she had bought it, since her closet was full of fur coats. Then she would say, 'The only reason you have gotten as far as you have is because I've kept you broke.' "Eventually he became head of the company for which he had once worked at a salary of eighteen dollars a week, but when he reached the top, he divorced his wife. Although he admitted that her extravagance had forced him to become a success, he hated her for the method she had used. "Possibly he was right in divorcing her; at least, from his standpoint, he had a good reason for it. To me the tragic cases are the ones where the wife ha,s slaved to help her husband become a success, only to be cast off for a younger, prettier girl when he becomes wealthy. There is no way of explaining why this happens so often, except that many people cannot stand success; it ruins them. "And don't forget that, while some wives are wonderful helps to a career, other wives are a great handicap! "I had a friend who lost thirteen million dollars in five years because of his wife. In the first place, it wasn't necessary for him to work, and he had no desire to do it, but she nagged him into starting a huge business. " 'I won't have a loafer for a husband," she said. 'No matter how much money you have, that's no excuse for living in idleness.' "After forcing her husband, who might otherwise have devoted his time to charitable enterprises and to travel, to put his nose to the grindstone, she decided that she also wanted him to be a great social success. Consequently, when he came home from work all tired out, she insisted on going out all night and every night. No man could keep that kind of a life up indefinitely. Since he was out all night, he couldn't give his business the attention it should have received. Consequently, he lost a huge fortune." H I mentioned the fact that many people feel that the great historical figures wouldn't have been so great if it hadn't been for their wives. Basil Rathbone once gave out an interview in which he said, "Behind the .success of every man there is some woman. It's even intriguing to wonder just how great some historic figures would have been without their wives. Can you imagine Robert Browning without Elizabeth Barrett?" Adolphe Menjou finds it easy to imagine Robert Browning without Elizabeth Barrett. "He wrote great poetry before he met her," he said. "Look at Abraham Lincoln. He was married to a bitter, nagging wife, who later became insane. What sort of help was she to him? "Look at Napoleon. Can anyone honestly say that he owed his .success to a woman? He was mad about Josephine, and during the time he was married to her he was extremely successful. But when he cast her off — in that period before he married again — was he any the less successful? "What about the great musicians and artists?" said Adolphe. "Did each of them have a woman behind him to whom he could turn for comfort, sympathy and encouragement? On the contrary. Nearly all the great symphonies and the great works of art sprang out of restlessness, unhappiness and discouragement. Many of the greatest musicians and artists either weren't married or were very unhappily married." H Adolphe believes that one reason so many marriages fail is that men don't know what to look for in women. "Ninety -nine per cent of the men in the world are attracted first by beauty of face and figure, plus an agreeable voice. I know of one man who is married to a beautiful doll-baby wife. Her face is absolutely blank of any expression. And her mind is just as uninteresting. 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