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It was that rarity, love at first sight for the beamingly joyous Mr. and Mrs. Macdonald
They Thought They Would Keep Their Marriage a
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Jean Parker's love story is that of a Prince Charming come true
By Kay Proctor
BE sure you spell it with a small d. Macrfonald." That bride-like warning, irrelevant though it seemed at the time, told in one letter the real story of elfin Jean Parker's recent runaway marriage which surprised Hollywood, her studio, her fans, and, I think, herself. Herself because it was a dream miraculously come (rue.
It fully tells the story because it shows so plainly how eminently more exciting and important she feels it to be Mrs. George .Macdonald, wife, than Jean Parker, film ingenue.
Jean's real life story, which this marriage has just climaxed, reads like the pages from a story hook. From her first meeting with George until that midnight when they were married in a little desert town, it was fraught with all the elements fiction writers deem essential to thrilling romance: youth; love at first sight; outside influences; obstacles to be over come, like individual careers and separation by distance.
She fell in love with him, for instance, before -He knew who he was or what he was. It happened mi a rainy dock in New York on the night she returned from London after playing in that delightful British picture, "The Ghost Goes West."
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To be quite fair, she knew of him long before that. For more than two years she had listened to tales of his youthful escapades and his growing success as a newspaper man and writer of fiction from his uncle, Chester Lyons, who w cameraman on her picture, "Sequoia."
She knew from hearsay that he was in his middle twenties, weighed around one hundred and seventy, was over >i\ feet tall, darkly handsome and a music-lover who played the piano well. She knew he was the son of the socially prominent Mr. and Mrs. George Macdonald, Sr., of Great Neck, New York, that he had been graduated from New York University after studying journalism, sociology, and philosophy, and that a marriage was vaguely in the offing for him insofar a it was "understood" he would one day marry the charming girl whose parents were such close friends of his parent-.
ge, too, knew of Jean. The same uncle had been the source of his information. He knew, for instance, that she was one of the real beauties of Hollywood and was considered one of the most promising of youthful actresses. He knew by hearsay that she had outgrown pli is n \ i:opage105]