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"But plenty of people have been in love and led the simple life — and ended in the divorce court,” we objected.
"Then they undoubtedly weren't suited for each other and should not have married. Harry and* I are," her violet eyes were serious, "and you haven't heard any rift rumors about us!"
Betty's logic was undeniable. Even in rumorridden Hollywood there just haven't been any gossip items to the effect that the Jameses were drifting apart.
"Actually, you know," Betty went on, "we haven't been separated much. The day after we were married in Las Vegas Harry had to return to New York and I to Hollywood, but not for long. Then shortly after Vicki was born, when she was too young to travel, he did a road tour to the East and I went with him. In the summer of '45 when he was playing around New York for three months, Mom and Vicki and I all went along. But this summer he's doing so many one week and one night stands that it isn't practical for me to go. Six weeks, but it seems like sixteen years!
"We're just so darned congenial and have so much fun together that I feel lost when Harry isn't here," sighed Mrs. James.
"Our primary difficulty hasn't been separation, it's befen trying to work at the same time, then have time off together. I've just finished a picture when Harry starts one. We've never had a real vacation together in three years."
Since their marriage Betty and Harry both have made four pictures, with long production sched¬ ules. Betty's big musicals average five months' duration with rehearsal and recording time; her latest, "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim," although in¬ cluding no dance numbers, which add weeks to shooting time, was before the cameras five months, too.
When she's working she gets up at 5:30 and usually leaves for the studio without even waking Harry. She doesn't get home until 6:30, more than slightly tired. If Harry's band is playing some¬ where around Los Angeles, as it often is, he must* leave the house by 7:30, so they have just about sixty minutes in which to have dinner before he departs. Then he doesn't get back until after 2, when Betty is sleeping to get up again at 5:30. . . . You take it from there.
And even if Harry doesn’t have a band date, Betty with that early call facing her cannot do much beyond having dinner, a quiet evening and then retiring early.
Everything would have (Continued on page 96)
Hocking and reading are Betty Grable's favorite ways to relax at the lames' comfortable San Fernando Valley ranch.
Dick Haymes comes in for a bit of a scolding from Betty, who's a hardworking typist in ''The Shocking Miss Pilgrim."
although she herself prefers it piled high on her head. That's one tip-off on their marriage.)
"Rules? The only one I know is to be in love. Really in love. Perhaps another is to live a simple life, like we do at the Baby J Ranch, one that keeps us out of the Hollywood routine that breeds trouble and misunderstandings. Then there's our daughter Vicki who gets a lot of our mutual attention. We've never even thought of a plan or design for living. It has just happened because we're happy and in love."