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I Richard may shock Hollywood. But
3 Mrs. Burton likes him just the way he is — r
i even if he does love football
almost as much as he does his wife!
Dick’s wife, Sybil
I WOULDN’T WANT HIM TAMED
BY
SYBIL BURTON
• I don’t think my husband and 1 had been in Hollywood more than ten days, when the word began to get around that Rich was a rough-hewn, offbeat character. And it’s easy to figure out how it got started. He loves to talk, and he has a way of saying things that get repeated.
Sitting in the studio commissary one day, after he’d been holding forth at great length, he stopped himself in mid-sentence. Then he said with a straight face, “You know, I talk too much.” No one at the table denied this. And he went on, “My father always said I should have been a politician.”
He paused for just a moment, and without so much as a wink at me, he added, “I think I’d have been good at it. At least the baby-kissing part. Especially girl babies, aged seventeen.”
Knowihg Richard. I’m sure he didn’t set out deliberately to confound or astonish anyone. But he wouldn’t do anything to prevent it either, because he takes such an impi.sh delight in being himself.
But, in turn, he’s been astonished too. He was truly surprised when his first starring role on this side of the ocean — in “My Cousin Rachel” — made an impression. “I didn’t think I looked good enough or could be a romantic leading man,” he said then. Again he was surprised after tHe raves he got for his performance as the noble Marcellas in “The Robe.” He just couldn’t get used to the idea of being accepted as a saintly character. “All my life,” says Rich, “in English movies, or on the stage in London, I’ve (Continued on page 95)
Dick couldn’t get used to being accepted as a “saintly” character in “The Robe”
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