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"In Ruth I've found every single thing a man might seek in a woman," says George. "Beauty, of course. And a mentality that shines with the brilliance of a silver dollar in the sun . . . And she has real honor in the masculine sense of the word."
♦ ♦ ♦ The real truth about the love of an Irish gentleman and the Screen's First Lady — a story as romantic and as beset with thorny difficulties as any screen drama
By CRUIKSHANK
too. But before he and his heroine faced the cameras and one another in "The Rich Are Always With Us," he had to stand up and be shot. For they wanted to be sure he was just the right type.
It was a harrowing ordeal, to hear George tell it. Ruth herself read him the cue lines as he went through the first scenes of the film-that-was-to-be before forty of the studio's severest critics. But the gods were good. Particularly the fat boy with the arrows. For, looking back, i George guesses that Cupid had scored a couple of bull's i eyes. There were signs.
"First day on the set," Brent reminisces, "I spilled a cup of coffee, Ruth knocked a prop cordial into her lap, and between us we upset a glass of water. When a couple of troupers indulge in such shennanigans, there's something unusual afoot. This time it was love. Director Al Green was right when he told me that those first day accidents would bring luck. It was surely my luckiest day ! "By the second day, that love diagnosis was certain, j You know the real thing when it hits you. And it hit me i hard. I had an idea that Ruth felt a little the same way j about things. A fellow can tell, somehow. During the I rest of the picture we were both in the clouds. It wasn't I hard to play the romantic scenes. There weren't enough of them to suit us.
"Honestly, I just can't remember how and when I
asked her to marry me. After the day's work, we'd discuss and rehearse the scenes for tomorrow. I'm afraid some personal discussions must have intruded, for we came to know one another much better. I found in Ruth everything a man might possibly desire in a woman. I made up my mind, God willing, not to lose her, and I did some tall arguing that I was specially ordained to bring her happiness. We managed to arrive at an understanding."
And in "The Rich Are Always With Us," this understanding was plainly visible in every sequence. Ruth played each scene with a new warmth, a fresh charm, a deeper sincerity. The warmth, the charm, the sincerity of a woman in love. And as for George, he was a lover playing "for keeps," not just for film fun. Moreover, aside from these romantic manifestations, there was a very practical tip-off in the fact that the footage and the close-ups were on a strictly fifty-fifty basis, with hero and heroine each trying to give the other the better of it. That doesn't happen in Hollywood — unless. . . .
NOW, Ruth has been married before. And so, indeed, has George. So they weren't just a couple of gaga kids swept away by the springtime. But nevertheless, they wanted to be sure. The course of true love is ever turbulent. And the Brent-Chatterton idyll was not en
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