Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1956)

I ip and wrinkled it and put on spirit gum. Then they yanked the gum off, leaving ;he ‘wrinkles’ there. One guy stood back md asked the other, ‘Well, what do you ;hink?’ Then they did the whole bit jgain, putting on the spirit gum and ranking it off until my face felt like raw lamburger. But I got the part. I’d work lights there until 3:00 a.m., get three lours’ sleep, and be back on my skis igain over at Fox. “I went to Chicago for another commer:ial film,” Alan continues. ‘‘I got $500 a veek and I got to wear a dinner jacket md carve a turkey. It was fine expeience — and I learned how to carve.” But there were other, leaner weeks luring those first few years, when there vasn’t any turkey. Days when it seemed (,s if all the faith and talent combined — 11 their teamwork — wasn’t going to get Uan his chance. ‘ “When we least expect it, a part will l ump up,” Sue assured Alan then. “You’ll ee.” It was always darkest before dawn, ||he told him, running through all the |lomforting bromides used to bolster batisred spirits and egos. But leaving a .tudio one day. Sue burst into tears, iseling she was failing Alan. “We’d lissed quite a few jobs then,” she recalls. And that day Alan snapped me out of it.” And finally, sure enough, the dawn ley’d waited for came. After some :3venty bit parts on the screen, Alan gave performance in “Joan of Paris” at RKO lat ,led to a test for the part of the coolliggered, cat-loving killer. Raven, in This Gun for Hire.” The part that would ijiake Alan Ladd a star. After this one picture, Alan was the fans’ lol and Hollywood’s heralded new star, ffth security in sight, he asked Sue to larry him. “I guess I fell in love with «ue that first day I walked into her office, saw her — and that was it. When two ,3ople click,” Alan says simply, “that’s it.” ' Then a shocked Alan heard Sue say le couldn’t marry him. Unknown to . Ian, studio executives had gone to Sue ith long faces and said marriage would : idanger Alan’s whole future — the future ' ae had fought so hard for. When Alan und this out, he went to the studio •ass and blew his top, reminding them re was the reason he even had a career, I id adding pointedly that, unless he mar1 ed her, there would be no career. hey were married twice — the first time hile Alan was on location in Mexico. Jut you don’t feel very married in exico.” So they had a religious cereony in Santa Ana later on, “a very sweet [ arriage, with just a few close friends ere.” And Dixie and Bing Crosby t aned them their Rancho Santa Fe home f r their honeymoon. ; They lived in Sue’s comfortable old I ick home in the older section of Hollypod, until Alan could build the elegant i luse he planned to give her. And from J e beginning they proved the studio I'onomists wrong. The fans took both • idds to heart, loving Sue all the more, I cause she was so important to Alan. ‘ It took World War II to separate them, an enlisted three months before their jst-born, Alana, arrived. He was the Ittest property in Hollywood, king of le box office, and leading every fan poll, h’d starved and struggled all his life to I somebody, and some professional iimrners were quick to say, “Kid, noddy will remember you. 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