Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1948)

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Okay?’ And she’d slap me on the arm.” Miss Ball demonstrated by slapping a guest in such a manner it made him think of Jack Dempsey. When the guest had been retrieved from the floor, Miss Ball continued. “Carole Lombard was more than a fine actress. She was a successful woman.” “And what is a successful woman?” For a moment Luci was stopped for words. Ordinarily they fly as spontaneously as sparks from an anvil. “A successful woman,” she mused. “A successful woman is one with a great desire, an overwhelming motive, all the time, year after year, to make people happy.” The Guardian Angel must have endorsed with a slap on the arm of her protege who is proving just that. It’s an old story now, all but forgotten, how Miss Ball was paralyzed from the hips down and for three years sat in a wheel chair refusing to believe she would not walk again and how one midnight she arose, took five steps and fell flat on her nose. She had been a model for Hattie Carnegie and for commercial artists when an auto accident snapped her career. “My first thought was fear of being a burden,” she says. “But I had a wonderful mother who helped take the fear out of me.” When Susan Peters suffered an accident that placed her in a wheel chair, Luci sent a yellow rose with a card, “Hi, Susiface! — Luci.” For months a yellow rose arrived each day, followed up with stuff from the Ball farm— butter, eggs, pies. Hairdressers and dentists were sent to the hospital. Susan was overwhelmed, “You just don’t argue with Luci,” she said. It’s not easy for a movie actress to pursue day after day, year after year, Miss Ball’s definition of a successful woman because an actress is on a spot. “You may arrive in the morning feeling terrible but you can’t show it,” says Luci. “Directors and grips and electricians can gripe and swear. They can yell at you and stick pins in you — I’ve had them do ★ ★★★★★★★★ it to me — but an actress, oh no, she has to be a good guy. She has to knock herself out being sweet. ‘Be funny!’ they say. ‘Laugh, weep, dance, do your stuff.’ If you don’t, if you kick things around because you have a howling headache, you are getting hard to handle. The rumors pile up. ‘Ball is temperamental.’ ” Hollywood is a tough spot also for making marriage work. “If you and your husband both work you hardly have time to say hello. You just wave in passing. Actually. I have driven home after working all night to see Desi passing in a car going to work. ‘That face is familiar,’ I say. ‘Oh yes, my husband I haven’t seen for days and I wave. In Hollywood too young people see too much, do too much, go too much. They see others getting divorces and they think nothing of trying it. In a small town they are restrained by example and opinion.” Madame Desi Arnaz doesn’t intend to let the example, Hollywood’s casual marriages, upset her marital bark. “The only really spectacular thing I ever did was eloping to Greenwich and marrying Desi. It happened so fast he had only time to grab a wedding ring in the ten cent store.” She wears it still above the expensive ring he later placed on her third finger, left hand. It has turned her finger green, thus adding its bit to the spectacular ensemble. They plan to remarry in the Catholic church; they were married by a judge in Greenwich. Mme. Arnaz has the sentiment to be remarried on their wedding anniversary, November 30, but this occurs in Advent when nuptials are not celebrated. “I want orange blossoms and veil and Gounod’s Ave Maria,” she says. Informed of her ardent desire, a jolly old Hollywood padre jested: “She wants to remarry after six years! By local tradition she should be wanting a divorce. A good woman.” A successful woman her Guardian Angel would say. The End ★ ★★★★★★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ tune in "PHILCO RADIO TIME” WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19th Gala Reunion Program honoring BING CROSBY WINNER OF THE 1946 PHOTOPLAY GOLD MEDAL AWARD As America’s most popular actor with BOB HOPE, WM.FRAWLEY, LEO McCAREY Don’t miss it! Hear Bing Crosby and the great stars of screen and radio who have appeared with him in a Gala Reunion Program, Wednesday, February 19th, 10 p.m. in the East, 9 p.m. everywhere else; ABC Network and many additional stations. ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★** ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 86