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When Judy Garland and daughter Liza (here on the set with Mickey Rooney) have Sunday dinner out, it isn’t for publicity
The time Linda Darnell, with daughter Lola, went on tour she missed the biggest event of any mother’s life
And while Linda was touring Veterans Hospitals throughout the country recently, she was heartbroken to have missed such events as Lola adding three new teeth and learning to mimic the barking of the next door neighbor’s pup. A GI, who was near her when she phoned home one night, was worried when she came away with tears in her eyes. “What’s the matter, Miss Darnell? Is there anything wrong at home?” he asked, fearing the worst.
“She stood up for the first time,” wailed Lola’s mother, “and I wasn’t there to see it.”
That’s the biggest cross any Hollywood mother has to bear — not being home when her baby speaks its first word or takes its first step.
For instance, when I was appearing at the Palladium in London, it was really murder. I kept wondering if Candy was changing and whether they were giving Lindsay her prune juice every day, or if the
children were too warm or too cold. I wrote eightpage letters to the nurse daily and read and reread the letters from her. I called home constantly and Lindsay’s, “Mommy I miss you — come back,” almost tore the heart out of me because I couldn’t leave that very minute, much as I wanted to.
When I’m working in Hollywood, the first thing I do when I get to the set is to call and see if everything’s all right. I phone three or four times during the day even though I know Teddy’s business is only five minutes away from our house and that he is looking in at regular intervals. When the doctors thought that one of Lindsay’s playmates had polio, I didn’t sleep for two nights and I don’t know what I would have done if I had had Mona Freeman’s experience.
Mona worked one whole day in “Streets of Laredo,” knowing that little Monie (Continued on page 78)
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