Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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Beautiful even as a baby, Tuesday was an appealing little model, and money began to flow into the Weld home. This turn of events left her older sister, Sally, and her older brother, David, badly shaken. The idea of being supported by a baby sister revolted them, and they began to hate the baby sister they had loved till then. Both Sally and David began to call Tuesday harsh names and to torment her. Tuesday had adored them. Now she suddenly felt like an outcast. Mrs. Weld said once that it took her hours to convince the child she wasn't as bad as her sister and brother said she was. "I'd have to build up her ego again and again," her mother said, "while Tuesday cried and cried." That was the start of Tuesday, the rebel. A Tuesday who had been rejected by her own brother and sister found it hard to believe that anyone else would accept her. To win acceptance as a teen-ager, she was willing to play the role older girls played — to appear harsh and brash. She ached for attention. She wanted to be part of the gang. If playing at being the queen of the beatniks was the way to win this attention, Tuesday was willing to play. There was no one to protect her — to teach her differently. If her father had lived, he might have shown her that a little girl is entitled to the strength and protection of a man. Even after she learned that her reputation was cutting her off from the com panionship of nice young boys and girl and giving her a place among the fa;i crowd, Tuesday continued her attitude c defiance. Her face looked bold, her lip were mocking. But underneath, Tuesday was hurt. Even before she met Dick Beymer, | former boyfriend of Tuesday's commented "She was beginning to wonder if sh jj hadn't made a mistake in defying publi j| opinion. But she was too proud to adm.j it." "One evening, at a party we both at k tended, an older man came up to Tuesda ■ and said, 'Aren't you ashamed of yoursel | a girl of your age, smoking and drinkin i and going out with a man old enough t I be your father? (At that time, Tuesda 2 was dating John Ireland.) You're livinil wrong. You'll live to regret it.' " "Tuesday couldn't think of any retor jl She just turned white and began to so ] hysterically, then turned to a boy nearb f and said, 'Please take me away.' He did 1 he took her out to his car where she sa I sobbing for hours." Naughty child To attract attention, Tuesday has ofte proclaimed that she would never get mar | ried, that she didn't want to have chil dren. Then she'd sit back, like a naught child, and notice the shocked expression o peoples' faces. Another boyfriend, Mike McKee, actor, said, "She used to run me raggec She's unpredictable. Once she had me her apartment for dinner. She made th dinner — she's a pretty good cook whe she feels like cooking. We listened to rec ords, danced. Then she went into her roon , After a while, I missed her and called otto her. I went into her room and foun she had gone. That's the way Tuesday islike some wild bird." But Dick Beymer sees nothing of th wild bird in Tuesday — only a soft littJ kitten, like the kitten that she herself ha once rescued. Not long ago he took her boating. Th sea was stormy and the little craft bega to lurch. Tuesday became frightened, an Dick put his arm around her. "Don't worr; doll," he said. "I'd never let anything hap pen to you. You know that, don't you? His arm tightened around her — not sionately, but tenderly, protectively, in th\ most comforting way. Tuesday, who has known men's anr around her — most of them demandin; seeking — was elated. In all her brief younlj life this was the first boy who treated he., with the gallantry and protectiveness othti girls take for granted. Who in the past hd there been to protect Tuesday? Not flJ boys she used to go with — the boys wb enjoyed the spectacle of Tuesday actir, wild. Her studio has tried, but Tuesda J would not accept dictation from them. But love can achieve miracles that stud: brass can't. What she wouldn't do for 20t Century-Fox she does gladly for Dick. Si smokes less when she is with him; doesn take on an attitude of defiance. The sutj merged side of herself — the feminine, yielc ] ing side — is coming out for the first tim on her dates with Dick. For Dick she willing to don an apron and be like evei girl who wants to please a man — cookir his favorite dishes, hovering over hi while she serves him. To Dick she isn't a broad or a beatnikbut a sweet, lovable girl whom he adore ! And because of it, there is a new softne about Tuesday these days. For the fir time in her life, Tuesday is in love ar knows what it is to be loved. And love is working its own tend* miracle on her, the miracle of known1 that it isn't too late to be good. ek Tuesday is next in 20th-Fox's High Tim