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Army picture and decide to have a part written in for me to act in “The Best Years of Our Lives.” And if anyone had told me I’d be acting scenes with Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Cathy O’Donnell, I’d have laughed in their faces.
Yet it all came true.
When I was told, I went crazy with excitement. I called Rita. Now we could be married! That is, after I’d collected my paycheck!
And that’s just what happened. I flew to Hollywood, where Sam Goldwyn gave me a little apartment near the studio and told me I could use his limousine and chauffeur whenever I wanted to. I was scared to death of acting — but only until I met director William Wyler. Then I wasn’t afraid any more. He talked so convincingly and quietly to me that I was sure I could do whatever he wanted. From then on, acting was almost easy. The only thing I couldn’t do was cry in front of the camera. But Mr. Wyler fixed that by blowing something into my eyes that made tears run down my cheeks.
I WAS in Hollywood exactly one month to the day when Rita and I were married. She’d come out a few days earlier. The morning of our wedding the studio make-up department did her hair and face for her. We were married, in Judge McKay’s office in Los Angeles, and Virginia Mayo and Steve Cochran stood up with us.
I remember the whole thing clearly: It was February 27, 1946, and Rita wore a light blue suit and I was so excited I forgot to pay the judge or buy any flowers!
The ceremony was at noon sharp. After it we all went to the Beverly Hills Club to a wedding breakfast given us by Mr. Goldwyn. We hadn’t been back in our apartment fifteen minutes before a messenger arrived with a big box of flowers from Mr. Wyler — a good start for the seven months we stayed in Hollywood making the picture. What a time we had! Everyone was wonderful to us. And since we’ve been back in Boston lots of our Hollywood friends have turned up in plays or personal appearance tours. Recently in Boston, we’ve had dinner with Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Danny Kaye, and many others.
Because of the housing shortage, Rita and I are staying with her parents in Cambridge while I study advertising at
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