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brick terrace. "All this seems so good to me. It seems so good just to be alive. I want to live. I don't want to be a career girl and work. I don't want to be separated from Brian a moment I don't have to be.
"The money is no attraction. Brian
earns enough to supply us with everything we'll ever need. And anything I make only shoots us up into a higher income bracket, where taxes gobble up whatever I make. So the money doesn't tempt me. "The glory of stardom? It's such a
Joan was too ill to be at premiere of Rebecca. She made a year's tests as Mrs. de Winter, a woman she understood and knew exactly just how she felt
shallow, transitory glory. I can't think of it as important. There are other things so much more important to me — to any woman in her right senses.
"Do you know a single woman in Hollywood who has been made happy — genuinely, permanently happy — by a career? I don't.
"The first rush of success may be exciting. Climbing the Olympian heights may be a very heady experience. But, as some old Roman said, 'easy is the descent into Hell.' There always comes a day when the descent has to be made. One by one, those on the heights are pushed off, to make room for others coming up. And being pushed into oblivion, if you've developed a taste for Olympian heights, must be a ghastly, unbearable experience.
"I'm not kidding myself for one moment about why I happen to be the recipient of critics' acclaim in Rebecca. It's the first time they have seen me carrying a big role. I am young and new, playing opposite an established star. There is something about critics that makes them ever willing to look for a beginner to take attention away from an old hand. They're always on the side of the underdog. Today I am a 'find.' Tomorrow, other people will be newer — and they'll get the acclaim. It always happens that way."
Joan smiled [Continued on page 70]