Modern Screen (Dec 1952 - Nov 1953)

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Doris has said since then that seeing the transformation in George Weidler was one of the big shocks of her life. George, the fellow who lived for the kicks of today, the lad with the often sad and worried look, the boy with no taste for responsibilities of any kind stood before her and looked like a stranger. He stood erect and sure of himself. His face was serene and purpose was in his eyes. When he spoke he said something. Just what he meant. And his kindness in dealing with the mutual problem they faced was as surprising as his changed appearance. Their business concluded, George was about to go, but Doris wouldn't let him. "Something's happened to you," she said. "I don't know what it is, George, but something's happened to you that I wish could happen to me. You're strong, and I always thought I was the strong one." George smiled and sat down again. "Would you like me to tell you about it?" he asked. s "Please tell me," Doris begged. They sat and talked for a long time. George had discovered a religious science — that maybe wasn't altogether a religion or a science — but a way of life. He had found it when he needed it most, and it had made him happy for the first time that he could remember. Doris wanted to know how she could get to know about it and he told her, told her how to approach it, where to read about it and what it would do for her. She walked away from that meeting determined to get off the Hollywood merry-go-round and look for some of the peace she had thought she'd find if she ever got financial security. A number of things that happened to Doris after that seemed to impel her toward a state of peace. Small things at first, but all part of a pattern that was to change her life completely. '"Then she received a blow where it hurt most. She developed a bad throat, and she earned a living with her throat. She went to a doctor and had an examination. There was nothing very dangerous about her condition, he told her, but she would have to remain silent for a long time and later on an operation might be required. In the cold light of day, when Doris left the doctor's office, she took stock of herself once more and decided that rather than agree to the diagnosis and curtail her work — which was the only thing she really loved about her life — she would fight it out within herself. She trembled a little as she got into her car and lit a cigarette with nervous fingers. Suddenly she looked at the cigarette. And then she threw it as far away as she could. She has never smoked a cigarette since. She whipped the trouble with her throat, and it has never returned. The same thing happened with liquor. While she was never a heavy drinker, Doris Day was like most people in Hollywood, a slave to the cocktail habit. Cocktails before lunch, maybe, and a cocktail before dinner. If she had to meet someone late in the afternoon, it was, naturally, for cocktails. As she began to find peace easier through her study of the new way of life she had discovered, Doris came to the conclusion that the cocktail was an enemy of the calm she wanted. She decided at a cocktail party one afternoon, after looking at what was happening to the rest of the people there, to put down her glass and she has never, to this day, lifted another. The third thing that happened to Doris Day during her search for peace was a man. She had long before stopped making the gay rounds with Jack Carson. And, to tell the truth, she was lonely. Although she had always dealt exclusively with Al Levy in her agent's office, she had met another young fellow who was a partner there by the name of Marty Melcher. Melcher was a tall, rather esthetic type of fellow, quiet and not too friendly. One day Levy was out of town and he asked Melcher to escort Doris to a radio program she was booked for. After the show Doris and Marty went to a restaurant for a bite to eat. They sat and talked for quite a while, and Doris was quite taken with the quiet manner of the man. And Marty was a bit more cordial than usual. They both wanted to meet a second time, so they did the day after. That was really when they had their first serious conversation. Doris told Marty about the new thing she was finding in her life. And he told her that he had been in a very unhappy state because of a separation from his wife and was seeking the same refuge. It might have been decided that night that Doris Day and Marty Melcher would be together forever, but, of course, neither of them knew it. They did know, though, that they thought alike and were kindred At a cocktail party, Hymie Fink took a photograph of a well known starlet. Then he said to her: "I'll send you a copy of the picture. Would you like it mounted?" "Oh, that would be wonderful," replied the starlet, "I look so much better on a horse." Sidney Skolskv in Hollyzvood Is My Beat souls in a strange environment. They met again and again. Soon the gossipers were saying they were in love. If they were, they didn't know it, but they did know that they had a common purpose, to achieve the serenity they knew possible in their spiritual life. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since that day. Now Doris and Marty are married, after one of the most casual courtships known in Hollywood. There was never any of the mad chasing that is so common in Filmtown when a man is after a girl. They just sort of drifted toward one another. They found not only comfort but solace in one another's company — and peace in their mutual search for something and someone to believe in. Now, there is nothing in life that can hurt Doris Day. She is one of the bestadjusted actresses in Hollywood, and there is no better wife and mother. Her home is a haven for the friends they want. They are the staunch confidants of practically all of the kids in the neighborhood. Those visitors to the set of that Warner Brothers musical thought they were seeing a great example of control when they saw Doris Day go through a work-aday experience that had everyone else in the company tearing at their hair. But they really were not. They were just watching a girl work who has found peace, a true, deep, abiding peace. Doris Day will go a longer way than she ever might have before. You see she knows herself completely, and she knows exactly where she's going. end (Doris Day will soon be seen in Warner Brothers' April In Paris.)