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She went on, gravely, "I flatter myself that I'm critical, skeptical, that I'm not easily impressed. I've been in this business too long to be haphazard in my judgments. But I think that Bob has it in him to be one of our biggest stars. I think he'll be a truly fine, possibly a great actor. He has that — that something in him. He looks surprised when I tell him that he would have been good at anything he'd undertaken. If he had decided to be a salesman or a baseball player or a bank executive or a politician, he'd have made a success of it. But he belongs in the acting business." She broke off.
"He's done such wonderful things for me, too. . . ."
BETTER pause here for a moment and keep track of what Bob has to say about some of this.
"I have grown up, come of age somehow, in this past year and a half," he admits. "I don't know exactly what happened. I guess no one ever knows exactly what occurs when he — well — when he becomes a person. Maybe it's just that you sort of 'jell' mentally. I know that my approach to life, to complicated situations, to work, to the business of going to war has all suddenly become pretty simple.
"I've always been a worrier. I'll fret and fume and pace the floor. But now I guess I know what things are worth worrying about. I think Ann taught me a lot of that. She has such perspective. She knows this picture business and she knows a lot about life and she thinks about things intelligently. She's never advised me not to worry. She knows that if you aren't anxious to do your best, you won't be any good at all. But she has taught me not to worry about nonessentials. So I feel pretty well-balanced in my mind about going to war, about coming back and taking up my job again."
You all know how Ann and Bob met on the set before they went into "Ringside Maisie" together. Most of you probably know that they began to feel acquainted, to take an eager interest in one another, after they met again as Ann was coming home from Hedy Lamarr's (Continued on page 95)
FEBRUARY, 1943
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until Bob enlisted in the Air Force. Then Hollywood decided they'd talk — when a man's going into the service something has to be said about the girl he leaves behind. What's more, Ann and Bob decided they'd talk, too — here and now
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