Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1957)

you might say I’ve been uncommonly lucky.” One might also say that Tony has been uncommonly smart. He knows exactly where he is going and how he is going to get there. He’s far more sensible than most other actors his age, and he has very few illusions about his own possibilities or Hollywood’s. During the filming of “Friendly Persuasion” he spent hours studying Gary Cooper’s every move and gesture so that his role as Coop’s son would be even more convincing. He was also studying Coop to see what made him such a great actor. “I learned another side of being professional,” Tony admitted. “Coop makes acting appear easy, and that’s part of his charm. The truth is he works hard at it. I learned a lot from him.” Although Tony doesn’t like to admit it, he also learned a lot about publicity from reading about James Dean. There was a slight similarity which his fans noticed, and Tony was not averse to emphasizing it. Like Jimmy, Tony is shy. Tony’s father died when he was five and Jimmy’s mother died when he was eight. Young people identify themselves with Tony as easily as they did with Jimmy, and all women want to mother him. Tony’s studio, Paramount, has great plans for his future as did Jimmy’s studio, Warners. There are also important dissimilarities. Says D. A. Doran, the production head of Paramount, “Tony is not neurotic. Basically he isn’t one of the sod-kicking school, and generally avoids the studied slovenliness of Brando or Dean.” There may be some difference of opinion on this point. However, the comparisons are inevitable, particularly when Tony frankly admits that he’s flattered to be compared with Jimmy. “I don’t like to be called the new James Dean,” he said, “but I don’t resent it too much because Jimmy was a good actor.” Unlike Jimmy, who was always spending his money on whatever caught his fancy, Tony is very thrifty. He gives most of his money to his mother to invest, and admits he already has a sizable amount saved. By Hollywood standards Tony is a loner. He has no close friends in the movie colony, and the only girls he dates are the ones he works with in pictures. During the filming of “The Lonely Man” he dated Elaine Aiken, also in the movie; now he goes out with Norma Moore, who plays his wife in “Fear Strikes Out.” Still, Tony likes going it alone a good bit of the time. He prefers his own company to the theatre. “I’m always worried about the other person,” he says. “If he or she likes the play and I don’t, I worry. If he doesn’t like it and I do, I worry. It’s best to go alone.” Tony was alone when he went to a sneak preview of “Friendly Persuasion.” He sat in the balcony eating popcorn. No one recognized him, and after the show he mingled with the audience to get reactions. What he heard, Tony shyly admitted, did not displease him. 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