Modern Screen (Dec 1954 - Dec 1955)

Audrey Hepburn is no fatuous, silly little girl. She reads the newspapers and she understands what she reads. She saw what was being written about Mel. She understood that her mother objected to him violently. In Mel she had a man who would take care of all the details, leaving her free to concentrate on her art. Perhaps she and Mel would become another Lunt and Fontanne, another Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Here was a man who had been an actor, writer, producer and director. Was she really in love with him? How many men did she know, anyway? She began to worry and she lost weight. The doctor said she needed a rest. Walter Winchell wrote, "Mel Ferrer is the chief reason Audrey Hepburn's worn out. They're in love." Audrey and Mel had been inseparable; she had seen him in all circumstances, and she believed he was a good and gentle human being. She left Ondine and not very long after, Audrey and Mel then discussed marriage plans. Audrey said she would go to Switzerland for a vacation. Mel said he would go to Italy and then join her in Switzerland. It was September when they were reunited. Audrey Hepburn, the charming, brown-eyed, actress who had started at the top by winning an Academy Award for her first full-length role, became the third Mrs. Mel Ferrer. END ty and linda call it quits (Continued from page 49) was forty-oneyear-old Ty, and his talk was practically all about his profession. "Linda and I haven't been getting along for some time," he admitted. "Call it incompatibility. So we might as well end our marriage. "I'm leaving for the east. It's very exciting to return to Broadway. I'm going to do Christopher Fry's play The Dark Is Light Enough with Katharine Cornell. Twenty years ago Kit gave me a job as Buzz Meredith's understudy in Flowers Of The Forest. "In order to do the play I've had to give up several film commitments, one in Brazil, one in Ireland, one with my own company. But I think I've made the right decision." Ty then took off for a fast week-end in New York where he discussed the details of the legitimate production and the possible itinerary of the road show. Tn Hollywood a friend of his said sadly, "The poor guy wanted to be out of town when the studio announced his breakup with Linda. But he'll be back. He's nuts about those little girls of his." Ty flew back to the coast a few days later, drove out to his house, one of the most fashionably decorated in the movie colony, and asked Romina if she'd like him to take her to Kiddyland. Romina clapped her little hands and a half hour later, she was riding on the merry-go-round at La Cienega and Beverly Boulevards. Watching the little beauty enjoy herself, Ty looked sad. Perhaps he wondered, since he was going east, when he would see his child again. Ty Power hoped against hope that his marriage would succeed. He tried everything. He 'took Linda to the Philippines when he went on location. He gave her freedom to travel around the world with Bill Gallagher and Mrs. Larry Kent. Knowing how much she loved Rome, the city of their marriage, he agreed to the purchase of a fashionable apartment there. He indulged Linda's every whim. He gave her every convenience money could buy — a lavish home, servants, nurses for the children, a Duesenberg, an Alpha Romeo, a $12,000 Bentley. But material possessions are a poor substitute for love and almost a year ago Ty and Linda began to fall out of love. This development came as a great shock to the movie colony because if ever there was a marriage that seemed to have everything, it was the Powers'. Back in 1948 Ty Power was going steadily with Lana Turner. It was commonly | accepted that Ty and Lana would be marI ried. after the handsome young actor re1 turned to Hollywood from a good will jl flight around the world. What most of Hollywood did not know at the time was that Ty had quietly been dating Linda Christian, a vivacious Mexican beauty. She was widely-traveled and she could speak six languages. Ironically, it was Lana Turner who introduced Linda Christian to Ty Power. One day on the set of Homecoming, Lana was talking to Linda when Power arrived. "This is Linda Christian," Lana said. "How do you do?" greeted Ty. Linda took it from there. Several months later when Power set down his plane at the airport in Rome, Linda was on hand to greet him. She showed him around the city she knew so well, dazzled him with her continental sophistication. From this point, Lana Turner didn't have a chance. By flying to Rome, "by getting there fustest with the mostest," Linda had outmaneuvered Lana. Later, Ty and Christian continued their romance in Mexico City, another city that Linda knows well. In Mexico City, it was implied that Ty was angry with Linda "for seeing so much of Mr. Big," supposedly an extremely powerful Government official. But when he was asked about this he denied it. Linda Christian is, of course, a native of Mexico. She was born in Tampico, thirty years ago, of a Mexican mother and Dutch father. Her real name is Blanca Rosa Welter. Just how and where she conjured up the name Linda Christian she claims she doesn't know. Linda followed her father, an oil executive, from station to station: Italy, Palestine, Holland, China and Switzerland. "There was a time," she once said, "when I wanted to become a doctor but then I gave up the idea." In Mexico City, however, she once worked for a plastic surgeon. After that she became a model, catching the watchful eyes of many Casanovas, some Mexican, some American. W/'hen linda first came to Hollywood " in 1945, she was acquainted with Errol Flynn. She lived in the Commodore Apartments on Hollywood's Franklin Avenue. From there she moved to Angel's Castle on Sunset Boulevard and thence to the swank Bel Air Hotel. To begin with she had an extremely limited wardrobe, but it wasn't very long before she was touring the night spots, bedecked in furs and jewelry. MGM gave her a screen test and signed her. In a matter of months, the green-eyed siren was dating the handsomest men in town. Once she met Tyrone Power, however, Linda fell in love and began to concentrate on the dark, moody actor. A year after they met they were married in the Roman church, Santa Francesca Romana. Three years later, they named Now you can have attractive healthy-looking pink gums,. .INSTANTLY! Here at last — a dentifrice that does MORE than merely clean your teeth! Dramatique, the FIRST truly COSMETIC dentifrice, actually imparts a delightful, healthy-looking pink glow to your gums, so that teeth, too, look more gleaming and attractive. 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