Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

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Please send me free tour folder as checked: Gulf Coast □ California □ Florida □ Southwest □ National Parks Q Historic East □ Southeast □ L Name. . Address . City . State . the husbands of janet leigh (Continued from page 85) And Ruth introduced us, and then I took it from there. "In a few days, I phoned Janet at the Alpha Theta Tau house and asked her for a date. The first date we had was on a Sunday. It was my birthday, and it was only an afternoon date. We went into Stockton and had some lunch, and I thought we were going to spend the whole day together, but she was awfully popular, even back then, and she told me she had a date for the evening. But I kept after her." And because Stan Reames was a tall, personable chap, and he had a "pop" music band at the College, and the girls went for him, too — Janet became interested, and it wasn't very long before the pair was classified as "steady." A year later, Stan Reames proposed marriage, and it was then that Janet was faced with the most momentous problem of her young life. Should she tell him about Danny and the foolish, impetuous elopement to Reno? If she told him, would it make any difference? Would it destroy or affect their love? Would it cloud their marriage? These were soul-searing questions for an 18-year-old girl. These were the questions she knew one day she would have to face, and now that day was upon her. Luckily, fate intervened. A letter from Danny arrived one day, and Janet placed it in a text book. The following day, Stan was carrying her books to class when the letter slipped out. He bent down and picked it up. When he saw the return name on the envelope, he asked her, "Who's this guy who's writing to you?" Janet took his arm and looked into his eyes. "Stan," she said, "I want to tell you something." And then as quickly as possible, she told him everything. Stan was wonderful. "Gee, honey," he said. "It doesn't make any difference. You were only a kid." So they were married, and they spent their first honeymoon night in Monterey, and for ten days they took a motoring trip along the Coast, and then went back to Stockton. Stan took his band and began beating the bushes for "play-dates," and Janet went up after a while to visit her parents who were working at the Sugar Bowl Ski Lodge in Soda Springs. There is little point here in repeating the story of Janet's being discovered. You all know how Norma Shearer, leafing through an album one day up at the lodge, came across a picture of an extremely photogenic young girl dressed in ski clothes. "This girl is absolutely fascinating," Norma said. "She should be in pictures." A few months later, Jeanette Morrison was signed by MGM to play the role of Lissy Anne in The Romance oj Rosy Ridge. Oddly enough, when Janet first reported to work at MGM in 1946, at a take-home pay of $43.80 — the general impression she created was one of complete innocence. "She is the most naive thing," one director said, "I've ever seen." When the director was told that this young ingenue was currently married to a band-leader named Stanley Reames, he couldn't believe it. "If that's true," he said, "she's going to become one of the greatest actresses we've ever had." That prophecy will probably be fulfilled, because Janet, in four years, has made more films (the count now is 12) than any other comparable actress in Hollywood. There is hardly a Metro picture in which she doesn't star, and when she's not working on her home lot, Howard Hughes borrows her for RKO. In four vears her salary has boomed from $50 to $750 a week, and if her agent thought it expedient, he probably could get a new contract for her at virtually any reasonable figure, because next to Lana Turner and Elizabeth Taylor — Janet is just about the best box-office draw MGM owns. As frequently happens in Hollywood, Janet's career and marriage didn't blend. As things went well with Janet, they went poorly with Stan. He had to disband his orchestra and take a job with the Bank of America. Gradually, these two youngsters began to grow apart. Janet was definitely joining the big time. She was moving fast in fast circles. She was on the way up. Stan was moving slowly, trying to find a niche for himself in a city already too crowded by thousands of returning servicemen. On June 1st, 1948, Janet moved out of MODERN SCREEN 'Face it? Don't be silly — this is my good side!'