Modern Screen (Dec 1954 - Dec 1955)

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She couldn't go back to work for at least a year. But there'd be no permanent after-effects. Not only would she walk — eventually she'd swim, play golf, ride horseback again. To one of her age, a year seems longer than it is. But Ann was too grateful, too busy counting her blessings to lament on that score. Her head turned on the pillow, her hand sought her mother's. "I'm the luckiest girl in the world," she said. Before she'd completely recovered, tragedy struck. During those months in the little apartment on Highland Avenue, while she nursed her daughter back to health, Nan Blyth began feeling ill. Not only did she keep the knowledge from Ann, but tried to dismiss it from her own mind, ascribing it to shock and strain. Once Ann was well, she'd be all right again too. But the time came when she could no longer dismiss it. One day they went out to San Bernardino for new X-rays of Ann's back, which showed the fracture to be all but healed. At home again, Mrs. Blyth steeled herself to the task ahead — the task of dealing her child a bitter blow. What had to be done, she did. "Honey, I've seen the doctor. He says I need an operation." The color drained from Ann's face, her heart froze within her. "I'm going to be fine, dear. But I don't want you here alone while I'm in the hospital. So I think we'd better phone your auntie and uncle and see if they can come out to stay with you." After the phone call, after Aunt Cis and Uncle Pat had promised to come right out, Nan Blyth's face dropped into her hands. For the first time in her life, Ann saw her weep. With the world crashing around her, with the nightmare sense that none of this could be happening, she cradled her mother in her arms. Through the weeks that followed they hoped against desperate hope. But the operation came too late. Ann's beloved mother died. Such was Ann's grief that she cannot talk of these things today. In her first desolation, even prayer didn't help. The same heartbroken cry went up. "Why, why? Why should it happen to her, so good, so dear, so needed?" But she was fortunate in her dear aunt and uncle. No two people could have loved her mother better. To them, her loss meant less only than to Ann. Yet, once the first shock lay behind them, they refused to stand by, watching her shatter herself against the inevitable. Out of their larger experience, out of their clear good judgment and honesty they spoke. "Ann, we can go just so far with you in your grief. You must find your own way. Your mother isn't lost to you if you seek her through prayer and faith and the knowledge that she's still with you forever and ever. But you cannot find her if you nurse a sense of betrayal." It couldn't happen overnight. But little by little Ann did find her way through the blackness back to the gates of prayer, where she drew close to her mother's spirit again. Again the beloved voice sounded in her ears. "God in His wisdom has a reason for what He does, and He always knows best." Why it was best for her mother to be taken, she'll never under ! stand. But she understands that it's not for her to question. As a child of faith, she need only accept His word. She'll never forget how Aunt Cis and Uncle Pat left their farm and all their , ties in the east to answer her need, to I give her solace and support through the 1 dark days, to make a home for her here, j warm and sunny as themselves. They found a little house in the valley — Ann's first I house with her first bedroom to herself — and none of your Murphy beds, but a real one. When she was well enough, she returned i to U-I and life began to resume its normal round. Her career throve on loan-outs. Goldwyn borrowed her for Our Very Own. MGM for The Great Caruso. Even Lanza's brilliance failed to dim Missy Blyth's. Who j that ever saw her will forget the lovely little figure dancing and singing "The j Loveliest Night Of The Year?" Certainly not Leo, the astute Lion, who from then on made a habit of borrowing her — for All The Brothers Were Valiant, for Rose Marie and Student Prince. Last November, her U-I contract up, she signed with MGM, where she's just finished Kismet, first of j her pictures under the new contract. Meantime, Hollywood was playing a game called Let's Marry Ann Off. To be , objective, she wasn't its only victim. For her name you can substitute Terry or Rock | or Tab, since it's a game played with all eligibles. Ann didn't care for it. Speak ; ing of the period when she was being tagged, her soft voice takes on an edge of firmness. "This is a phase of your life — even if you're in pictures — that's quite private and special. Not that you're un | willing to share a certain amount, but only so much. It took me a little while to get used to these stories which I knew were untrue both about myself and others — and ( in many cases, unfair. Of course I went to parties and dances and had wonderful fun. It's the natural way of youth all over the world. Yet in Hollywood some people I seem to believe that girls and boys can't go out without marriage in mind. They seem to urge it on you. But it was my life, and I felt no sense of urgency. When I fell in love, I wanted to marry. Until then I had no intention of marrying, whatever anyone wrote." It's been reported that Ann met Jim j through Dennis Day. Not so. Five years j ago during the holiday season she'd asked some friends to visit. They were also friends of Dr. James McNulty and thought these two might enjoy knowing each other. "Perhaps he and his mother and dad would [ like to come over," Ann suggested. So it was in her own home that she met him first and remembers that she loved his face at once. "Such a kind face, so warm and happy. And I loved the sweetness of his manner to his parents. I can't describe I it but, if you knew him, you'd understand its quality. He had it then, he has it, now, he'll always have it." A week later he phoned. Would she care to go to the christening of Dennie's new baby! She's found out since that he asked her with some misgivings. Despite his brother's place in show business, it was a business foreign to the young physician. They were reminiscing about it lastj Father's Day. "I liked it," said Jim, "that you seemed to have such a good time, just playing and singing and talking. I didn't feel that you had to be entertained. I began hoping it wasn't true what they said, that movie stars live in a different world." Through the next two years they dated on and off — went dancing when they could, since they both loved dancing, or just to a movie. But Jim was busy establishing ■