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From our European correspondent comes the most heart-warming scoop that PHOTOPLAY has been privileged to print in years: Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Fisher are adopting two children.
“Two daughters,” Eddie specified happily to our informant On the “Cleopatra" set, the marvelous news has been a well-kept secret by the couple who love children more than anything in the world— except each other.
“These aren’t just any two children, they’re very special," a friend of the Fishers said. “You have to know Elizabeth and Eddie deep down to realize all these two little Greek orphans will mean to them.”
Prodded for an explanation, she summed it up this way: “Elizabeth has her children, and Eddie has his children. He loves hers as dearly as he loves his own. But he and Liz haven’t been able to have a child of their own — and the doctors say they never will. So don’t you see?— these two daughters they will adopt will be the children that Liz and Eddie never had."
That’s the story: The Fishers will now have their children, to make up for the one that was never born of their love— yet was forever being predicted.
“Their marriage has everything else,” the friend
exulted for them. “It was their one disappointment— but no more. Now they will have everything.”
Adoption being, in its way, as chancy as birth, the Fishers may find themselves settling for some combination other than the two daughters of their dreams. They may find themselves the parents of a girl and a boy, two boys, or maybe only one child instead of the duet they hope for with all their hearts.
“But, like any parents, they’ll be happy with what they get,” another close friend assured our correspondent. “You know how it is— you can think pink for nine months, but even if you come up with all-boy quintuplets, you’re grateful to God."
Whatever is not yet known about the sex and age of the children, this much is for sure:
They will be Greek children. So many of these bereaved tots are desperately in need of parents and a home— in heartbreaking plight.
They will be raised in the Jewish faith. Liz herself turned Jewish when she married Eddie.
They’ll be loved the way children need to be, with an all-embracing, all-accepting love. Whether they’re newborn infants, or toddlers, (Continued on page 85)
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