Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

BOY GETS GIRL (Continued jrom page 55) Foxes was finished. Since most of the picture would be shot outdoors, the warm sun of Italy would be their friend. If it shone frequently, she'd get home quickly. Rain, fog and clouds would be their enemies, delaying the shooting of the picture and their reunion. Letters flew back and forth between Italy and America, telling of their love, of their impatience, of their determination never to let anything like this happen to them again. Since he was not yet well established in pictures, his salary was small. Though he couldn't really afford long distance phone calls, he just had to hear Wanda's tender, gentle voice over the phone and know she was safe and well and still in love with him. (Wanda's current film is called, appropriately enough, My Own True Love.) Over thousands of miles her voice traveled. To hear it, Audie paid the phone company $10 a minute, and it was worth every penny. But at the end of every conversation there was a feeling of frustration and of longing to be together. Audie knew that Wanda was working hard in Italy, and he wished that circumstances had been different, so he could have saved her from the trip. There are not many times in his life that Audie has wished for real wealth, but in these moments he often wondered if things might not have been different if he had been able to say, "I have plenty of money and can take care of both of us very well indeed. You won't have to go to Italy." not too strong ... Knowing that he and Wanda would have to struggle for years, he hadn't felt he could make that plea. But when Wanda admitted she was tired, visions of her looking pale and fragile haunted him. She is healthy, but not too strong, he says. (In his heart he's fiercely protective of her.) Over the long distance phone she promised him, 'Til never again take another trip like this. 1 miss you terribly." So that it might be a memory that Wanda would cherish all her life, he decided that the wedding must be held in the church to which Wanda always goes, Unity Church in San Fernando Valley. And in the flower-decked church, with their friends and Wanda's parents present, they took their vows. Paul Short, the producer, who had faith enough in Audie to give him his first important part, was best man; Audie's cousin, Elizabeth Lingo, was maid of honor, and Mary Lou Van Ness, secretary to the stars at Paramount, was bridesmaid. It was a double ring ceremony. Wanda's wedding gown, designed for her by Paramount designer Edith Head, was derived from the styles of 1830. Of white slipper satin, it was slightly high-waisted, with a full skirt, a high neck and a tiny, stand-up collar. Wanda's little cap and the veil just reaching to her shoulders were made of white lace which she bought in Italy. 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