Modern Screen (Jan-Nov 1952)

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Another saved $400 while learning. Equipment included, women, 18 to 60. Easy tuition payments. Trial plan. CHICAGO SCHOOL OF NURSING Dept. 238, 41 East Pearson Street, Chicago II, III. Please send free booklet and 16 sample lesson pages. Name City : another young dancer, Cecile Aubry, got the role. The day Gene Kelly interviewed Leslie in the George V Hotel in Paris he had one and only one objection to her for the role in An American In Paris. "We'll have to fatten her up," he said. The trip to America, for further tests, was a fantastic adventure for Leslie. MGM was paying and she and her mother traveled first class. Leslie was scared. They boarded an airliner in Paris and headed for New York. An hour or so after taking off, the gentleman in the next seat leaned toward the tiny French girl and asked if she was enjoying the flight. She looked straight ahead and didn't answer. A little later, he spoke again, and Leslie, paying no heed to the fact that he was a clergyman, got out of her seat and marched back to where her mother was sitting. "That man," she said indignantly, "is trying to speak to me." "You will have to get used to that," her mother said. "In America everyone will speak to you, my dear." When they arrived in Culver City, with one small suitcase, Leslie and her mother took a small apartment within walking distance of the studio. Then they discovered another odd habit we have here — changing our minds. It was decided right away that Leslie was to have the part, but the studio heads had made up their minds to shoot the picture in America. Leslie had no wardrobe, didn't have the money to splurge on a new one, and found herself very short on clothes. The studio solved that by loaning her clothing from the wardrobe department, and, for the first few months in Hollywood, Leslie wore the costumes of June Allyson, Liz Taylor and other stars as street garb. Settling down in this strange land had never entered Leslie's mind until she met her husband, George Hormel. Her first date with George, or Geordie, as she calls him, was a difficult one. He was stationed with the Coast Guard in San Francisco. He got into town and discovered that his brother and a party of friends, which included Leslie, were just going out the door on their way to dinner and the ballet. He begged them to wait so he could join them. They said they didn't have time, so Geordie swore if they let him catch up with them he would pay the bills for everyone for the evening. They agreed, and young Hormel, who was living on a reserve Coast Guardsman's pay, and the few dollars he earned making phonograph records as a one man band, had to foot the bills all night. He didn't get a bite of food himself because the others were in too much of a hurry. Later in the evening they dropped in at Ella Logan's home. George had become fascinated with Leslie and was unable to keep his eyes off her. Leslie admits she was equally attracted to George, though she'd hardly spoken to him all evening. When Ella asked her for her phone number, she gave it in a loud clear voice, hoping he would hear. He did and phoned her the next day. After their first date together, Geordie dropped her off at her door with a curt good night. The following evening he took her to the beach and, as Leslie tells it, said: "Do you think we can get married?" Her answer, she admits, was: "Are you crazy?" The next move on the part of Mr. Hormel was to suggest that they both fly back to Minnesota and let her have a look at his family. Because she thought he was "crazy," Leslie agreed, and they all got along famously. However, the minute they got back to Hollywood, Geordie informed his girl that they had better take care of this marriage business immediately, because he was due for sea duty and he wanted everything shipshape ashore before he took off. Leslie explained that this was impossible because she was about to go on a personal appearance tour, was going to devote her life to the movies. "In that event," said Geordie, "we'd better get married tomorrow." All Leslie could manage after that kind of reasoning was a tiny "Okay," and the next day they packed their respective families in a plane, took off for Las Vegas, and were married at the chapel of The Last Frontier Hotel. The George Hormels live simply in a town where most movie stars live like movie stars. They have a small house in Laurel Canyon and live within their incomes, which, at this moment, is not great. They are true newlyweds, preferring to be alone rather than to attend parties and gay events. At the present time George is making his unique recordings, but the time may come when he has to go back east and take charge of the family business. When that day comes Leslie will go with him. It's been a long and exciting journey for her from the war cellars of Paris and it's not finished yet. END (Leslie Caron can be seen currently in MGM's Glory Alley.) Men, .Stale .Age come dance with me (Continued from page 38) stood for Happy Time, two words which, significantly enough, are engraved on their wedding rings. Those dreamy adolescent dates between Marge and Gower were rudely interrupted, however, the day when Gower at age 15 asked another girl, Jeanne Tyler, also 15, to enter a dancing contest with him. The contest was being staged by Veloz and Yolanda at the Cocoanut Grove, and as luck would have it, Gower and Jeanne won. After that, little Marge Belcher was out of the picture. No more dates for her with Gower Champion. He was too busy dancing with Jeanne Tyler, so busy and so good, in fact, that a booking agency, the Music Corporation of America, signed both him and Jeanne to tour the country. The youngsters were told that they would be back in Los Angeles in time for the opening fall session of high school. The tour lasted four years! When it was over, Gower had danced in most of the country's large cities, Marge Belcher was a fond and pleasant memory, and Pearl Harbor had been bombed. Gower entered the Coast Guard and was recruited for a role in the big Coast Guard musical, Tars And Spars. He kept requesting more active duty, however, so they made him a petty officer third class, and he spent most of the war transporting troops to the various battle sectors of the globe. Once the war was over, Gower returned to Hollywood. He ran into Marge Belcher occasionally, but their puppy love affair was a thing of the past, at least to him, and the meetings were casual and fleeting. They always asked each other what was cooking. When Marge told Gower she had landed a role in a New York play, Dark Of The Moon, he thought that was simply terrific. He himself was being tested by 20th Century-Fox. "I was terrible in that test," he honestly