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SEX OR BABIES
■ It's an old story about Hollywood stars. No matter how subdued, serious or benevolent they seem, the public won't believe it. To them the stars are sexy; they're gorgeous animals running around in a frenzy because they can't find enough people to love. They may have a whole flock of kids (all their own) in the nursery, and they can stay up half the night fixing formulas, but the public insists it's just a front. The stars don't like babies; the stars are reckless and irresponsible.
Only a few weeks ago, John Wayne was taking a rare vacation in Mexico City. He was sitting out on the hotel patio, sipping a coke, when an attractive local belle minced up to him. "Oh, for the life of a movie star!" she exclaimed.
''What do you mean?" asked dashing Duke Wayne.
"Oh, Duke," the lady sighed. "How I envy you! You can do anything you want, go anywhere you like. No worries, no cares . . ."
"You must be kidding," said Duke. "Or else, you have me mixed up with some other guy."
The girl smiled. "You can't fool me," she said, with a gleam in her eye.
"Honey," Duke laughed." I wish I could! But I have to disillusion you. I'm the father of four kids."
Maybe this news came as a shock to the senorita. Hollywood children have a way of not being seen — or heard. But they're there, all right, with all the demands that children anywhere make on their hard-working parents.
Take the case of Don Ameche. This past summer, he was substituting for Don MacNeil on The Breakfast Club, one of radio's oldest morning programs.
"Why do you wa'nt to emcee a radio show like that?" one of his younger fans wrote him. "You're a famous movie star. Wait until Hollywood offers you a big picture."
"I'm very sorry," Don wrote back. "I can wait, but my six children can't."
These are only two examples of fathers who happen to be actors, and who live in a community that is more family-minded than any other community in America. Actually, there are fewer childless couples in Hollywood than in any other comparable town— -but the fans don't want to believe it.
It's possible that Hollywood (Continued on page 99)
BING CROSBY'S wife, Dixie, retired from the movies when actress-mothers were taboo.
ALIDA VALLI had a husband and son when she came to Hollywood, but publicity men kept it a big secret.
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