Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

suddenly, -unexpectedly, to get married. In speaking of the failure of this marriage they admitted that they were both too stubborn to give in to each other. The marriage ended in divorce. What Tony needed then and has always needed was a girl like Cyd Charisse. When World War II was declared Tomwas called to the colors. After his honorable discharge he went back to Hollywood to take up his career. Nervous, restless, lonely he found it difficult to make an adjustment to Chilian life. He became the gay young blade of Hollywood. He went in for flashy clothes, for sports, for people of all kinds. He was never alone: he never wanted to be alone. He was always on the go. This was the man who was introduced to Cyd Charisse the night of Nat Goldstone's party at the Bel Air Hotel. Cyd's happy-marriage theories For one tbing, she has never tried to change her husband. She has learned to live with his craze for sports and for the people with whom he must necessarily surround himself, such as music arrangers, press agents, musicians, song pluggers, TV big shots and his pals in the sports world, people with whom his wife has nothing in common but accepts without a word of protest. "I know Tony thoroughly," Cyd said, "and I don't want to change him. I fell in love with him as he is, not as the man I want him to be." For another thing, she has never let her career interfere with her marriage. She has a clause in her contract that when she is not making a film, she has permission to join her husband wherever he may be. It is the first clause of its kind ever inserted in the contract of a leading Hollywood personality. But good wife though she is. she has never forgotten she is a mother, too. She and Tonv alwavs manage to be home in time to spend their wedding anniversary with then son, Tony. Jr., born in 1950. Not only has she never let her career interfere with her marriage, but she has done what few women — far less gifted and far less prepossessing than she is — are willing to do. She has submerged her own personality. When Tony wants to go out at night to a night club. Cyd goes with him even though there are times when she'd much rather stay at home. She has turned down good roles in pictures whenever she thought they interfered with her marriage. With insight and emotional maturity, she has turned her unhappy experience in her first marriage to profit in her second. She learned not to deflate a man's ego, nor to worry him needlessly; and never to be possessive nor jealous of her husband. She manages to be a delightful companion to her husband, springing all sorts of surprises to give him pleasure. Once she talked him out of buying a new Jaguar which he wanted badly. Then later at Christmas, which also happens to be his birthday, Cyd suggested that they go for a little stroll. As they walked, she pointed to a lovely Jaguar at the curb. "That's the kind I wanted to buy," Tony said sadly. "Isn't it a beauty?"' "It certainly is." she laughed. "And that's my birthday present to 3rou." She cannot understand women who constantly whine and complain to their husbands, without even giving the man a chance to cross his threshold and wash his hands. A man's home should be his peaceful castle, she says. Neither can she understand women who do not want their husbands around too much. "I can't see enough of Tony. Gosh, when you love a person, how can you see too much of him?" She doesn't believe in the theory that a wife should keep her husband guessing. "If a woman wants her peace of mind and wants her husband to have his peace of mind, she should let him know she loves him and leave no doubt about her loyalty." She is convinced that a calm and happy woman has a better chance of succeeding in her career than has a tense or overly ambitious one. As a result, she has attained great success in her career since her marriage. Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon. Easy to Love, Brigadoon, Deep in My Heart, and It's Always Fair Weather . . . smash successes which have brought her stardom were filmed after her marriage. "If a woman doesn't succeed,'" Cyd said once with a shrug of her shoulders, "a happy woman will learn to accept failure, too." Their friends say that marriage with Cyd has made a remarkable change inTony. He is quieter, gentler, more relaxed. Ironically enough, if Cyd had planned this change in him, it probably would not have happened. The change was wrought by the miracle of happiness. His star too, is in its ascendency. What makes these two vivid, vital charming people so remarkable is that neither is envious of the other. On the contrary, each takes delight in the other's success, in each new triumph. 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