Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1957)

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“ Don dallied around the sports cap counter, then shyly tried a jew on. ‘ They’re real crazy ,’ he kept saying. ‘But where would 1 ever wear one ?’ ‘When you drive’ I suggested. After a good long study, Don concluded, ‘Nope, I don’t think I’d ever wear one.’” lasted ten years. His mother, an ex-Ziegfeld Follies beauty, never interfered with his aspirations. He fell in love with his wife, Hope Lange, when she was a seventeenyear-old dancer and he was playing his first big stage role as the sailor in “The Rose Tattoo.” She fell in love with him several years later, when he returned after two-and-a-half years of voluntary service in European D.P. camps. Both he and Hope give a portion of their earnings to the project closest to Don’s heart, a resettlement program that will make the hopeless refugees of Naples self-supporting. As a pacifist, he is not afraid of danger. He simply refuses to kill another human being. Careerwise, he has two ambitions. One, to bring to films his original screenplay entitled “The Homeless.” (“It’s a love story that takes place in a refugee camp. Hope and I would like to play the leads.”) Two, he wants to play the leading role in “Jean Christophe.” He and Hope recently bought a home in Beverly Hills, near Burns and Allen. (“I expect in a few years, my son Chris will be selling lemonade at a stand in front, pointing out the home of the famous George and Gracie to the tourists.”) He expects to putter about the place, do his own carpentry and bricklaying. Being himself has not always been so easy. He knows the combination of acting and being a religious conscientious objector is an unusual one. (“It took me two years to convince the authorities. They didn’t think an actor could be sincere.”) That he is sincere, he continues to amply demonstrate every day, in every way he can. (“I have learned that without this purpose, any success that comes my way would have no meaning.”) “Hatful of Rain” will make Don Murray a very big star. He already is a big person. 56