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Norma's husband, Irving
Thalberg, is her boss, while
Joel McCrea and Frances
Dee are both actors.
Who Pays the Bills in a Two-Star Family?
More than one movie divorce has come because the stars couldn't
solve that problem. This story tells you something you've
always wanted to know • By HELEN BURNS
Joan Blondell's husband, George Barnes, is a successful and highsalaried cameraman.
YOU and I and the woman next door mayargue with friend husband over who is to pay the bills because there isn't enough money to go around — but with the movie stars it's different. They have arguments, and many of them over who is to pay the bills because, very often, both husband and wife are earning too much money. The women can't resist flaunting their independence, and the men just can't help being jealous of their wives' earning capacity.
A dozen Hollywood bachelors have told me. that they would never marry an actress who insisted on continuing her career after marriage. They had, they said, seen too many of their friends try it and fail. A man, they reasoned, could only be master of his home when he was the only wage earner in that home.
Yet there are two-star families, women stars married to male stars or to men earning the equivalent
of a star's salary, who have successfully solved their financial problems. I decided to find out just who footed the bills in Hollywood's two-star families.
Immediately I encountered difficulties. Almost all the stars were reluctant to discuss the subject. That was the first rule they laid down for themselves — the refusal to talk about their money.
First I went to Norma Shearer, not only because she is one of the loveliest and most prominent of the happily married stars, but because she is both intelligent enough to analyze her reasons for doing things and gracious enough to discuss them frankly.
"Financial independence is not a woman's natural right," Norma said. "A man likes to feel that he's the provider. That's as it should be. I try never to act like a working woman when I'm with rny husband.
"It's very dangerous for a wife to make more money than her husband. {Please turn to page 44)
And Ai Jolson and Ruby Keeler,
married, both draw pay-checks as
individual performers.
The Neiv Movie Magazine, July, 1935