Modern Screen (Dec 1954 - Dec 1955)

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Colgate-Palmolive, the makers of FAB with more active dirt remover presents daily on NBC T-V Yes, your favorite magazine reading is now being telecast right to you every afternoon, Monday through Friday*, over your local NBC-TV station. Starring Martha Scott as story editor and hostess, "Modern Romances" is a great new TV program based on real life situations. Each week brings you a new story with all new actors — the same stories that have long been the favorite reading of millions of women in the pages of Modern Romances magazine. And remember each issue of Modern Romances brings you Book length novels, novelettes, and short stories . . . Plus Your Baby— a section full of sound advice on raising healthy, emotionally stable children. Enjoy Modern Romances • ON THE AIR!* • ON TV!* • AT YOUR NEWSSTAND! • Check your local newspaper for times and stations Well, on this day I was working. I had finished early, and I just wandered onto Vic's set. He was making Hit The Deck. He was very happy to see me. " 'Let's go across the street,' he said, 'and have a little champagne like we did in Germany. I'll be finished in half an hour. Will you wait for me?' I said, 'Sure.' So then we went to The Retake Room, and he ordered champagne, and he put a nickel in the juke box. Gene Kelly was there in the restaurant but we danced — Vic and I — we danced to 'September Song.' While we were dancing he proposed. Gee! I was surprised. I didn't know what to say. I thought maybe he had been drinking champagne on the set. I asked him. He said no. He was very serious." T>ier was asked if Vic hadn't been dating 4 her twin sister. Wasn't Marisa angry? "No, no," Pier explained. "Everyone is happy for me, even our parakeets. Between Vic and Marisa was nothing, a light friendship." How about Vic's parents? Had she ever met them? "Two years ago," she said, "Vic introduced them. They are fine people. Vic has three, maybe four sisters. I am so excited I don't remember. After our announcement, we called them on the phone. They are very glad Vic is marrying an Italian girl. They say we have a lot in common." Vic, at twenty-six, is not only a show business veteran but a young man of sensitivity and understanding. One night, a week after he and Pier had become engaged, he and his manager went over to his fiancee's house. Vic explained that he had signed to sing in a Las Vegas hotel starting December 1 and as a result some of their honeymoon would have to be spent there. Pier was agreeable. "Anywhere you say. Anything you like." "I'm a lucky guy to have you for the rest of my life," Vic said. "Honest! And you know, Anna, I'll do anything to keep you happy. People ask me if you're going to keep your career after the wedding. I don't know how you feel about it. But anything you want to do is fine with me. You're very talented. You're a fine actress. I know you like to work. And at times, you get moody. I've seen you. There are times you like to be alone, away from everyone. I know that, Anna, and believe me, I'll never bother you. I understand you." By the time Vic was finished, tears of joy were trickling down Pier's cheeks. Later when she told about it, Pier said, "It is so wonderful to find a man who understands.Vic will not resent my career. There will be no jealousy between us. Only understanding. And after the babies come, I can make my own choice — stay at home or continue my career." In the weeks preceding her marriage, Pier was the busiest and happiest girl in Hollywood. Helen Rose, MGM's stylist, r!esi?ned her wedding dress. Her "dear Mama" went shopping for her trousseau. Her sister helped with the wedding invitations. And all the while, Pier and Vic drove up and down the countryside looking for a house to rent or buy. One real estate agent who saw the small, slim, green-eyed beauty with her tall, thin, wavy-haired Vic, said, "I've seen a lot of young couples in my time, tried to fix 'em up with homes, but I've never seen any pair more in love than those two kids. Must be their Italian blood. And they've got the most soulful eyes. One look and you melt. "I ain't much on Hollywood marriages, but if these two can keep it up, they'll never fall out of love." END