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I I I I I ( Continued from page 41) the bathroom about three times weekly, doing it thoroughly. We take turns cooking. When Wayne cooks, I wash dishes and vice versa. We gave just one “formal dinner party.” It took about a day of preparation and a day of cleaning up, plus a lot of loot. So that’s out. I figure I’ve got a lot of time for that stuff in the future. If I could do exactly as I’d like, I’d build us a shack, four rooms, in redwood with pine paneled walls, a kind of miniature of a big house I’d like to have someday. But to build even a four-room redwood now would cost $5,000, if I could get the land. So the next best thing was to rent a house and get Wayne to share it with me. I’VE had a little better than eighteen months of Hollywood now — of belonging to it, starting with that first bit in “Since You Went Away,” getting that wonderful part in “Till the End of Time” and then the lead opposite Shirley Temple in “Honeymoon.” I’ve made a lot of friends, particularly Henry Willson, who got me my contract with David Selznick, Gail Russell, whom I most often date, Diana Lynn, Gail’s best friend, and Rory Calhoun, with whom I hope to make a picture. Everybody hqs been swell to me and I’ve made more money than I ever expected to make in eighteen months. But I do think I have resisted “the goldfish-bowl glamour of Hollywood” and I think I’ll keep on resisting it — and the reason I will, I believe, is because of that stretch in the Navy. If you don’t follow that reasoning, I want to say that my brother and I — in fact all the guys I know — were affected by the war. I’ve read that in the last war the fellows tagged themselves “the lost generation.” They seemed to feel very sorry for themselves. I don’t think my generation does. You could even call us the “found generation” because our stretch in service taught us so many things. One thing I do know — movie acting is not as simple as it looks and it takes all you can give it — and demands more. A year ago I would have wanted to do it much more for the money. But acting sort of gets you. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy going home and seeing my parents every month. They still live in Bakersfield, which is an easy drive from Hollywood. I want Guy Madison to be one of the fine actors but at the same time, Guy Madison wants to be like the older Mr. Mosely, head of a family with a nice, solid home and a batch of healthy, noisy kids. I’ve got very nice parents. There were five of us kids at home, four boys and one girl. We made up the kind of family I want to have for my own, except I want ten kids instead of five. A large family gives you something to do. With so many personalities around the house you can’t get bored. I hate being bored and I am bored if I keep on doing the same thing over and over. Just before Christmas this year I went on a hunting trip. I was gone for more than a week and I loved every minute of it. But. when I got back I wanted a great rush of night clubs. Two years ago I didn’t go for night clubs. That was because I didn’t dance much. Gail made me learn to rumba and samba. So now night clubbing is fun, once in a while. Sure, there’s glamour in Hollywood, some of it very real and glittering and a lot of it very unreal and glittering. I’d be an absolute square if I didn’t see that this town has more color, more excitement and more ambition than any other community on earth. When you click, even in threeminute bits, you are in the spotlight, you do begin swimming around in the eternal gold-fish bowl. But the ones who survive are not the drape-shapes in Schmidt’s clothing who clutter up the cafe society. It’s Peck’s good boy, who’s also a two-time father, who’s heading toward an Academy Award. Watching those things, I think I can safely say that the minnow in this pond will be found at home most nights having cooked his own dinner and having gone to bed early with a good script. The End ^prin (j ^£)ecoratini j Oi ume Means color portraits of your favorite man star and favorite woman star to cut from the pages of Photoplay and frame for your wall. To gef them — Fill in the coupon below and mail to: COLOR PORTRAIT EDITOR, PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE 205 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y. MAN WOMAN MY NAME I Ed. Note: We regret this cannot mean you will receive color portraits of the stars. 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