Modern Screen (Dec 1947 - Nov 1948)

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Most decorated hero of the war, Audie will play the lead in Bad Boy. Wanda's set to play opposite Tyrone Power in Prince Of Foxes. wrong. It's just that in Hollywood, where so many people marry first and regret it later, kids like Wanda and Audie have a double temptation to go ahead, take their chances, and hope for the best. Whether you think Audie and Wanda would be right or wrong to marry, here's their story. There was drama in their very meeting. After being lionized by Hollywood and meeting most of its famous personalities, Audie had remained singularly unimpressed. Then one day he chanced to pick up a magazine. On the cover was Wanda's picture. That was it. Here was the girl for him. "I had never met anyone like Wanda," says he. "But in the back of my mind I had carried a vision of her for years. I had never really had a girl. Not even during the war did I know of one to whom I cared to write. While other fellows read their love letters, I usually cleaned my rifle. The girl I loved existed only in my imagination; and, believe it or not, she looked amazingly like Wanda." Through mutual friends, he arranged to meet her at a dinner party. Wanda admits she was not particularly thrilled by the prospect. Knowing Audie only by his war reputation, she imagined that a man who was capable of putting 240 Germans out of action, as Murphy had, must be a bit on the rugged side. And Wanda didn't care for rough-necks. But obligingly she accepted the (Continued on page 108)