Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1955)

OPPORTUNITIES for EVERYBODY Publisher’s Classified Department (Trademark) For classified advertising rates , write to William R. Stewart, 9 South Clinton Street , Chicago 6 (Oct.-Worn.) 5 Leslie was greatly impressed by the luxury of her portable dressing room and the electric washing machine in the basement of her tiny apartment, where every Sunday she did her washing for twentyfive cents. She confided by air-mail post her fright at her first attempt at singing and her gratitude to Gene Kelly who encouraged and helped her. To her best girl friend, Danielle Darmance, a fellow ballet student, she bragged about Van Johnson teaching her how to drive a car. “We’ve put a sign on the back of his Cadillac,” Leslie wrote, “with auto school written in French.” In Hollywood, Leslie kept up the same intense grind of work and study that she had followed in Paris. On days off, she was at the practice bar at a Los Angeles dance studio, and on Sundays she would relax by painting watercolors. One of Leslie’s feats is sketching, not with pencil nor pen nor charcoal but simply with her index finger dipped in India ink. And every morning she would have an hour’s workout on her bicycle to keep her leg muscles in shape. Leslie, a serious, child, whose life was built around her family, hadn’t done much dating in Paris. She didn’t have time. Her social life was limited to before and after-theatre meetings with theatrical chums at her favorite “Bar du Theatre” opposite the Champs-Elysees Theatre. Was it any wonder that she fell hard and fast for the charming George Hormel, whom she married two and a half months after their first meeting in Hollywood? In a letter to her grandmother dated September 28, 1951, Leslie described Hormel’s rapid-fire courtship. “I’m in a plane,” wrote Leslie, “bound for Florida. My husband is with me. His name is George, or rather Geordie. I met him two and a half months ago on a theatre date. He invited me to pass ten days at his family’s estate in Minnesota. On our return we more or less decided to get married. The studio asked me to go first to San Francisco for the premiere of the film (‘American in Paris’) and then to Florida. Because the picture is playing all over America, I’d have to have a big wedding with lots of publicity. I wanted to avoid that. So we decided to elope to Las Vegas where you can get married immediately. We bought our wedding rings in the afternoon.” Leslie went on to tell her grandmother that Geordie spoke French fluently as his mother was French-born. “Geordie will not take over his father’s business,” Leslie wrote, “as he wants to study music. He’s never taken a lesson, but he plays about three instruments very well. He also sings. He just made a record which will be released in two or three weeks. He is very talented, but he is above all an adorable boy. He is very handsome, and I know that you will love him very much. Mrs. Hormel and Geordie have given me many presents. Geordie, a beautiful string of pearls, and Mrs. Hormel, a necklace and a diamond watch which belonged to Geordie’s grandmother. They are all so wonderful to me. I’ve picked out a wedding band which looks like Daddy’s. I have always admired it so.” Five days before sending the letter, Leslie had sent two cables, the first addressed to her parents, who make their home in the Virgin Islands with her maternal grandmother, “Have changed my name to that of Mrs. George Hormel this morning. Very happy. Love. Leslie.” The second, to her grandmother in Paris, “A new little grandson for you, Mamy.” Leslie’s short-lived married life with Hormel, a great part of it spent under the merciless lights of unfavorable publicity, did more than anything else to intensify her mania about personal questions. Any OF INTEREST TO WOMEN HOSTESS WANTED I GIVE exciting Parties for Profit make money without leaving home! 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