Modern Screen (Dec 1954 - Dec 1955)

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It was whispered around town, however, that Linda was perpetually restless, continually dissatisfied, that no amount of travel and adventure could sate her. When Ty settled his contract with 20th, a studio he'd been with for twenty years and began the tour with John Brown's Body, it was said that Linda was getting awfully lonesome, that to occupy her time while Ty was on the road, she sometimes dined with men about Hollywood. In 1953 there were a dozen rumors that the marriage of Linda and Ty was over, in fact, that they had even consulted a lawyer about a pre-divorce settlement. Ty squelched these rumors with an irrefutable answer: Linda was pregnant again. Taryn Stephanie was born in September, that year. Ty bought his wife and two daughters a beautiful new home in the Pacific Palisades, and the rumors died down. But not for long. All through 1954 they grew bolder and stronger. When edmund purdom, a tall, handsome, English actor, arrived in Hollywood with his ballerina wife, the former Anita Phillips, it was said that he had a good chance to star opposite Olivia de Havilland in My Cousin Rachel. A fellow Britisher, Richard Burton, got [ the part, however, and subsequently the Purdoms were reduced to poverty. "I was so broke," Purdom says, "that I couldn't afford to pay the doctor's bill when my daughter Lilan was born. I was nearly deported for being unemployed. In | order to eat, I pawned my wife's wedding i and engagement rings and her father's watch. I had no money for bus fare. I had to walk from studio to studio looking for a job. Once we were evicted for not paying the rent." The twenty-seven-year-old actor does not mind discussing the hardships he encountered before he found a degree of Hollywood fame by substituting for Mario Lanza in The Student Prince and for Marlon Brando in The Egyptian. He will not, however, discuss his friendship with the Tyrone Powers or any phase of his private life. "I do not believe," he says, "an actor's private life is any of the screen magazines' business. I stand on my work." Ed and Linda worked together in Athena, where their friendship blossomed. Purdom does not care to confirm or deny the rumors that eventually he will divorce his wife and marry Linda Christian. Nor will he talk about the story that had him romping all over Mexico with Linda and Ty while his wife was awaiting the arrival of their second child. Nor will he dignify with any sort of reply the innuendo that his friendship with Linda was responsible for arousing Tyrone Power's jealousy. On the set of The Prodigal, Purdom would only say, "I hope to be making a trip to London shortly. If the studio pays my way I'll have to do publicity for The Student Prince. Anyway, I do want to get back to England for a bit." One cynical Hollywood citizen suggested the possibility that Purdom wanted to get out of town until the rumors subsided. Thus it is probable that as you read this article, Tyrone Power is working in New York, Linda Christian is vacationing in Mexico City and Edmund Purdom is visiting in London. Just how or where or when all three or , even two of these extremely handsome people will get together again, no one can