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What was the biggest bluff you ever pulled? A. I didn’t pull it intentionally, it just happened. Clare and I lived on our trust fund in New York. It was a very modest allowance, but somehow the term “trust fund” seemed to imply that we were heirs to millions. A certain group of people began to rush us, inviting us to wonderful parties and entertaining us lavishly. When we denied that we were rich these people thought we were being cagey. Finally, when one of the men tried to talk me into buying a big chunk of stock I had to convince him that Clare and I had only a small income and not the millions he thought. Slowly but surely we got the brush-off. But it was fun being a millionaire for a month. Q. Are you an ice-box raider? A. Yes. I usually go for hamburgers, celery and ice cream when I indulge in midnight food forages. Q. Of what unpleasant quality are you sometimes accused? A. People who don’t know me well think I have no sense of humor because I’m usually quiet and appear to be serious. I’m not as serious as I look. Q. What is your taste in music? A. I like popular music, semi-classics and almost every recording Frank Sin atra’s made. I don’t go for Hawaiian music or opera. Q. Do you like to doodle? A. Yes— I always doodle between scenes, and they’re invariably little caricatures of Garbo. Q. What do you eat for breakfast? A. Just coffee— about twelve cups! I drink coffee all day long. Q. How did you develop the coffee habit? A. When I was broke and living in a small apartment in New York I found it very easy to fill up on coffee. The habit has remained. Q. What was the most difficult scene you ever played? A. The one in The Green Years where I throw a sacred medal to the skies and say, “I don’t believe in God anymore.” I ht i to be very careful or else it might be considered sacrilegious by a good many people. » Q. What can’t you understand about women? A. I can’t understand why they spend an hour and a half in the tub getting fresh and clean and then ruin that fastidious effect by plastering a heavy veneer of make-up over their faces that makes their complexions look greasy and caked-up. Q. What fault of yours are you trying to correct? A. Biting my fingernails. They still look chewed down to the bone, but you should have seen them a month ago! Q. What is your greatest expense as a star? A. No particular one, as I don’t own a big home, a swimming pool, a yacht or a station wagon. There are certain expenses in the business, such as hiring a secretary now and then to help me catch up with my mail and buying more expensive suits than I ordinarily would because they’re the clothes I wear before the camera. But on the whole I don’t put on a front and don’t find it necessary to do so. Q. What was one of the greatest disappointments of your life? A. Losing a role in the stage version of Life With Father years ago because I