Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

Some might attempt to explain it by saying that Hedy is so used to having men swoon at her feet that she feels rather undressed, unless at any given moment, she can say that some man is pursuing her. Nonsense! Hedy isn't like that at all. She is used to having men swoon at her feet — so used to it that she attaches slight importance to it by this time. She'd certainly never go out of her way to impress a columnist with the already universallyknown fact that men find her attractive. Why on earth should she? No, I think the reason is the one I've given — that it's simply her great and very natural longing to find the right man that drives the honest Miss Lamarr — with no deliberate intent to falsify — to suggest romantic situations where actually none exist. Last summer Hedy informed me in great excitement that her first husband, Fritz Mandl, had telephoned her from South America to say he was coming to Hollywood to marry her all over again. "Of course I shan't let him," Hedy told me. Nothing ever came of it — I believe that at the time of his telephone call, Mandl was still married to someone else. But it made a good story and Hedy enjoyed telling it to columnists. Aside from the mystery of why so many of Hedy's "romances" evaporate into nothingness, there's the deeper mystery of why her well-authenticated romances with no quotation marks around them, end so unsatisfactorily— and this includes her marriages. they parted friends . . . Soon after her arrival in Hollywood, it looked as if Reginald Gardiner would be her choice for a second husband. The brilliant, young English comedian was a witty, intelligent companion, plainly devoted to her. For a while they were together constantly. Then they parted — as friends. Back in 1942, Hedy and George Montgomery made no bones about their plans to get married — "as soon as we both can get enough time off to have a honeymoon." Yet, after a brief engagement, they went their separate ways. I saw Hedy the day after she married Gene Markey. "We are going to buy a farm and raise chickens," she told me. She'd always longed for life on a farm — perhaps because she'd never had one. Anyhow, Gene had other ideas. He wanted to show off his beautiful bride in fashionable restaurants and night clubs. Hedy far preferred a more intimate domestic existence. So they were divorced, with Hedy accusing Gene of neglecting her. The big problem in Hedy's marriage to John Loder was the disparity in their earning powers. Aside from that difficulty, things for a time appeared outwardly smooth. John was willing to raise chickens, children, or anything else Hedy wanted. But after one separation, a reconciliation, and several bitter battles, he lit out for New York. At the time of the divorce John stated, "I don't know what's the matter with Hedy. She's so mixed up that I can't even reason with her." 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