Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1949)

Her Divided Heart ( Continued from page 49) “Angie had better show it,” Hermes decided. After all, Betty had barely learned the steps. At two o’clock, the producer came in, followed by a retinue of all the most important people on the lot. “Angie!” the assistant director bellowed. I was sitting next to Betty, muttering not so much to her as to myself, “I can’t, I just can’t, I’m too scared.” “I’ll do it, kid,” Betty put in at this point and whirled onto the set. She did the whole routine with great style, feeling no pain. Right after “what a dancer” in my little book, I wrote down “what a pal.” Somehow I knew that she would be embarrassed if I thanked her. So I didn’t. But without words we both knew that everything was going to be just fine. Four more pictures went over the dam before Betty really let her hair down with me. It’s not that she’s stand-offish. She just isn’t sure that you want to be friends. She has a rare kind of modesty for a girl who is, after all, a star. I noticed immediately the scarcity of the first person singular in her conversation. And later I realized that something more than modesty was involved. One evening, when my husband and I were at the Jameses’ for dinner, Betty managed in the course of four hours to deprecate her dancing, her acting, her looks, and of all things, her gorgeous legs. “Skinny,” was her verdict. My husband’s mouth really fell open at this heresy. “Becky,” I said (we had hit upon this nickname and it had stuck), “don’t tell me you have an inferiority complex!” She puckered up her forehead at this and thought for a moment. She admitted that she thought that was it. She had been plunged into this business so early, she said. She had always, all her life, been working just one step ahead of what she had been able to assimilate and understand. Sometimes she thought she didn’t even like the business. Sometimes she hated it! She laughed then, a little em barrassed by her own violence. I thought I knew one thing that was eating her. For too long a time her life had been all work — work and nothing more. And she knew there was more. I, for instance, though nobody at the studio but Betty knew, was going to have a baby. “She should fall in love,” I told Chuck, my husband, as we drove home, “if she only had time.” She had time, as it turned out, soon after. During the production of “Springtime in the Rockies” Betty met Harry James. I was home with my new baby then but Betty and I hashed over everything every night on the phone. They were having lots of laughs on the picture, she said. But this wasn’t startling. There are always plenty of laughs on a Grable set. When Betty tore off to New York as soon as the picture was finished however (Harry was in New York), we all began to wonder. And when she came back, not talking but twinkling, we knew. At least I knew. “When?” was all I said. She laughed. It would have to be quick, she indicated. She and Harry were going broke on all of those long distance phone calls. It was quick. The minute “Coney Island” wound up, Betty was off to join Harry and the Marrying Judge in Las Vegas. While Betty and Harry honeymooned, everybody at the studio concentrated on thinking up a big program of work for the Glamour Puss as soon as she got back. “Pin Up Girl” was next on the schedule and Hermes Pan and I were working out for it the toughest dance routine Betty ever had. The big number was an Apache dance which she was to do with Hermes himself, in which he threw her around like a rubber ball. When we ran through it for Betty the first time, I thought she looked a little green, but she didn’t say anything until later when the two of us were alone in her dressing room. “Can you keep a secret?” she asked me OWNERSHIP. MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION. ETC.. REQUIRED BY THE °,f CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND MARCH 3. 1933, of PHOTOPLAY, published Monthly at Dunellen, N. J., for October 1, 1948. 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