Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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"I'll tell you why I insist.'" Betty said evenly. "Because I love you. And I know you love me. And because it is that way between us I want to do something for you. "Don*t deny me a chance I may never have again. For the rest of my life 111 need you. Gene. And I'll like that. But right now I can help. Please, let me do it." Gene looked at his wife and knew that she meant every word she had spoken. Suddenly he put his arms around her and for a moment they hugged all the happiness, love and sadness that a man and a woman can have for each other. "Besides," Betty7 said with the hint of sniffle, "you may have a son this Fall — or a daughter." In the next few weeks Gene tried harder than ever. He took any job he could get as long as it was before an audience. He emceed programs in theaters and nightclubs. He performed in New York towns where they still had vaudeville shows. He sang at State fairs. He took small-paying parts in off-Broadway plays. "Once," said Gene, '"I toyed with the idea of becoming an auctioneer. But Betty put her foot down. A man named Mike Todd "Finally Betty had to quit her job. You'd think that a man as desperate as I was at that time would stumble onto something, anything. It didn't happen. I don't know. Somehow we made it. Because the day my son was born I got a call from a man named Mike Todd. He had a job for me. My son's name is Michael. And from that moment on things improved. Nothing sensational. But I did a number of plays and finally got a bid from Paramount where I did Red Garters and a couple of other pictures. In between I did a lot of TV work, about a hundred shows. "Still, Betty and I played our dollar bills close to the vest. "One day my agent called me and asked if I'd like to do a Western TV series. " "Me? A cowboy? Not on your life,' " I said. "It may sound strange, but I've always wanted to be a super-actor. What this actually is I don't know. But I used to think about getting a chance at an Academy Award. Winning an Oscar. It was a big dream with me. Then one day I thought it over and asked myself. 'Barry, just suppose for a moment that you never do win an Oscar? What then?" it's funny, but after all that yearning, the only answer I could think of was a brilliant 'So what?' 'T guess a little of that longing was still in me when the agent asked me about the Western. It's why I said no. I felt there was nothing grand about a Western. '""But then he asked, 'Is it still no if I tell you that the character you play wears a derby hat and carries a gold-headed cane?' " 'It is now yes.' I said, very distinctly. That sounded elegant. Til do it. What's the character's name?'" "Bat Masterson." Today. Gene Barry, as the famous welldressed Western play-boy marshal, is easily one of the best-known personalities on television. Gene and Betty have built a house in Hollywood's semi-exclusive Benedict Canyon. It is a big house. 4.500 square feet. It is exactly the kind of house the Barrys wanted, principally because Gene built most of it himself. They have another son now. Frederic, age five. Betty needs Gene, just as she said she would — and she likes it, just as she said she would. And they are a warm, wonderful, happily married couple because they still like to do things for each other. But Gene's life is not quite complete. "There's just one thing I wish Bat Masterson did. But I've checked and he never got around to it." What was that? "He never played the violin." Gene says with a long soft look back at the past. . . . END A Real Swinging Shower (Continued from page 32) —but let her tell it: "When I walked in and found my girlfriends there. I thought I'd keel over! I was just flabbergasted. When I saw them there, all dressed up. Elinor Donahue, Gigi Perreau. Jennifer West, Danny Thomas' daughter Margaret, calling out Surprise, Surprise.' and saw all those pretty packages ... I don't know why, but suddenly I found myself kind of choked up and for a moment I couldn't say anything. I tried to cover my confusion and say something off-hand and bril PHOTOGRAPHERS' CREDITS The photographs appearing in this issue are credited below page by page: 9 — Darlene Hammond of Pictorial Parade: 10 — Dsrlene Hammond of Pictorial Parade. Dave Sutton of Galaxy, Wide World: 12-13 — Darlene Hammond of Pictorial Parade. Nat Dallinger of Gilloon: 14-15 — UPI. Globe. Jacques Lowe. Wide World. Frances Orkin: 16 — Al Morch of Pictorial Parade. Curt Gunther of Topis: 19-20 — Zinn Arthur of Topix: 22 — Larrv Schiller: 24 —Galax:.-: 26-27 — Wagner-International: 34-35 — Globe: 36 — Topix: 45-47 — Topix. Wide World. Paris Match. Europres-Gilloon: 48-49 — Tony Curtis: 50 — Earl Leaf of Galaxy. liant. like 'Oh. you shouldn't have — ' but I found there were some tears in my eyes that got in the way." "But Judi hurried over to me and put her arms around me and teased me, "Come on in. Pamela: this is going to be a happy party7, honestly it is." "And we did have fun. Lots of girl talk — and lots of teasing too. . . . "Judi was a riot. She said she'd been engaged three times so far but never had a shower like this. 'Next time I get engaged.' she said, 'I'd like one of you girls to arrange a shower like this for me. Then I'll just have to marry the guy!' "Everyone wanted me to tell (again) how Darryl and I met. when we were 'finally' getting married, what 'that apartment' of ours was like. . . . "All the girls knew the story but they also knew I loved telling it. How Darryl and I met when we were both doing a play in a little theater in Hollywood. How our romance grew when we were in The Tingler together. "And how, once we knew we were in love and wanted to get married, we sat down one evening and talked it over. We believe that couples who rush into marriage are missing an experience they'll never be able to recapture. 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