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I wasn't aware of it, I guess, but I was looking for someone who needed me. someone whom I could love and someone who would make me feel like a woman again after my marriage failure. I had done some acting at the Pasadena Playhouse and had studied theater at UCLA. A friend told me about a young veteran who seemed to show some rough talent as an actor, but who didn't know how to develop that talent. 'He's living like a drifter,' said my friend. 'Maybe you can help him.' "So I met Jim. I was both shocked and fascinated by him. He was a tall, scowling string bean. He wore dirty old blue jeans, he needed a shave, he needed a good meal. And he needed someone to care for him. "His home was a broken-down car which he'd parked on the sand in a remote section of the beach near San Clemente. He'd sleep in the sleeping bag on the beach; when it was too cold he'd sleep in the back of his car. To eat, he'd steal food from the farmers and go into the post office once a month to pick up his small GI check. "I didn't think of falling in love when I asked to meet him. I thought only that perhaps I could help him get started as an actor, by sharing with him some of the things I had learned, and this in itself would give me something to do to fill my own empty life. He had nothing then "Like a true hermit, he was angry at the whole world, and when I met him he looked down at his feet and wouldn't talk. Then I asked him if we couldn't read a play together. His face suddenly lit up and he began to come alive. We talked and I discovered that once he'd lost his sullenness, he had a tremendous charm. "We began to see each other first as 'teacher' and 'pupil.' We read plays together, we worked on scripts. And we fell in love. He didn't have a cent and nobody, at that time, would have bet a nickel on his chances of ever becoming an actor. But I saw something in him. Maybe it was through the eyes of a woman in love. I tried to tell myself that I was looking at him only as a 'pupil.' But I was kidding myself. The more I was with him, the more deeply in love I fell. Once I penetrated the hostility and crudeness on the surface I discovered a great magnetism that ran like a deep well. He began to become my whole life. "We were married in Santa Barbara and I started married life with a man who had nothing except the dreams we shared. My father let us live in an old flat in a huge Victorian house he owned. To save Jim's pride, we paid my father $20 a month rent. We fixed up our first home together. Jim steamed off the old, ugly wallpaper and we painted and papered the rooms ourselves. Often we'd stop in the middle of our work just to hold each other close and kiss. We scrimped but we were very happy because we were doing everything together. "Jim was getting occasional roles in Westerns, and producers were beginning to see the same thing in him that I'd always seen — a vital personality and a rugged talent. I was thoroughly dedicated to him and was happy to be so involved in his life. Those first years of our marriage, when we didn't have a dime, were the happiest of our lives. "When we learned, during the first year, that we were going to have a baby, I gave up a job I had in my father's company. My parents thought it wasn't right to raise a baby in a cramped little flat and bought us a small house in the Pacific Palisades, with a backyard that faced the ocean. The beginning of the end "By the time our second baby, Rolf, came along, seven years ago, Jim was beginning to do well as an actor. He was under contract to John Wayne and it looked as though now, with Jim finally getting recognition, we would be heading for certain paradise. But it didn't turn out that way at all. I didn't know it then, but as my husband came into his own as an actor, I was beginning to lose him. And lose myself. "When Jim was asked to go on location in Honolulu for Wayne, the wives were invited to go along. I'd just finished nursing our second baby, and Jim and I agreed it I guess I'm lucky. I've never really been a "wallflower: But I do have some advice for any girl who feels like one; read the article called "The Girl Who Hunted Popularity" in the new INGENUE Magazine. would be a wonderful second honeymoon. I went off to the Islands with Jim joyously, never dreaming that this was to start a disastrous turn in our marriage. . . . "It was Jim's first experience as a movie actor in an important production. It was my first experience as the wife of a leading man. The social life with this film company in Honolulu was fast and hectic. Up until now, Jim and I had lived very simple, almost elemental lives. In our home in the Palisades, we'd worked and gardened and cooked and had been wrapped up in our three youngsters — Jim treated my son, Craig, like his own. "Now suddenly we were wrapped up in a social life that was wild and intense. It was a round of parties that lasted until dawn. Beautiful women began to go on the make for my husband. I didn't doubt his faithfulness then — I could see that Jim was often flustered by the attention he received. He didn't know how to take it. This was the first taste of sophisticated living Jim had ever had. He didn't know how to handle it. Neither did I. I'd beg Jim to leave a party and come back to the hotel with me. But he was eating it all up like a child at his first Christmas party. He'd never had any of this kind of fun, and he was enjoying his own importance. There had been no other woman in his life before myself, and it flattered him to see the way beautiful women fell over him. "But I wasn't enjoying these parties. I'd