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young child. It’s also a vicarions dying and rebirth. The part of a person the hero represents has died, yet still lives. “But a cult is something more. It’s a pride to people whose lives are empty. When something becomes a cult, it’s not a personal grieving any longer. We all need heroes for various parts of ourselves. The social isolation people now have makes them borrow heroes. They don’t know their neighbors and they can’t turn to each other so they turn to a Dean or a Monroe.” But Dr. Greenleigh adds. “Whether it becomes a cult or not. what Marilyn Monroe stood for will be missed. She touched a wider range of people of all ages than Dean — people like Carl Sandburg who wanted to teach her.” (He is echoing Dr. Grotjahn’s sense that “Everyone needs heroes. We scientists need our heroes, too, so we write three-volume books about Sigmund Freud.”) To Dr. Greenleigh, James Dean’s image on the screen was moving. “He was the man who was incapable of getting the love he desired and there is a little of that in Continued from page 46 born to an Italian woman he met while working abroad — away from his wife — for more than a year. “The child is mine,” Anthony Quinn said. “I can not deny him. I want him to bear my name and to be one of the heirs to whatever estate I have. It will be difficult for my four other children to accept. My wife has been deeply hurt. But my responsibility is to my new son.” He said it and then was silent. He made no excuses, offered no sign of remorse. And the world, presented with the cold, sad facts, did what the world has always done — it judged the deed. It is natural, of course, that the world should do so. The religious heritage, the moral standards of mankind are in the keeping of society — which is simply another way of saying in the keeping of all of us. But for any one of us to judge truly it is not enough to know the facts — we must understand the man. “You should judge a man,” Quinn once said, “by what he wants to give to the world and to life. You should judge him in his own culture and on his own level.” This, then, is a portrait of Anthony Quinn. A portrait in his own culture and on his own level. He was born in poverty and in danger. His birthplace was Chihuahua, Mexico; the year was 1915, a time of turmoil and revolution. His father was Frank Quinn, half Irish, half Mexican, a fighter with the revolutionary army of Pancho Villa. His mother, Manuella Oazaca Quinn, daughter of an ancient Aztec family, rightly feared for her life and her son’s. When Anthony was not yet two months old. she i lots of people. He appealed most to young people; he was misunderstood and they wanted to mother and give to him. As these people grow up and find satisfaction in their own lives, I think they’ll drop him. But I think Marilyn Monroe will stay an image. Her pictures are still pinned up in all the tailor shops. I don’t think it’s likely to stop suddenly.” Yet Dr. Grotjahn is not so sure. “Our time is moving with such speed that she could be forgotten rather quickly.” Time cuts myths to its own requirements. Fifteen years ago Marilyn Monroe did not — in a public sense — exist. James Dean has already lived after his death three times as long as his public life before death. And perhaps their short public lives is why they live on. More than almost any people, actors are seeking immortality. It will be ironic if, by their early embracing of death, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean are embedded forever in the mythology of our time. — Aljean Meltsir strapped him on her back and walked five hundred miles across Mexico to the American border. In this country she supported herself and her baby by the only means open to a Mexican woman — picking fruit and berries, following the harvest from place to place. Anthony was several years old before his father joined them. (In Paris, where Quinn met the press, a reporter asked why he felt compelled to acknowledge a child another man might have denied. “I grew up without a father for the first few years,” Quinn replied, “and I know what complexes grow from it. I don’t want this child to have to go to a psychiatrist because he wasn’t wanted.”) When Anthony was twelve his father died. The boy left school to wash dishes, dig ditches and work in a mattress factory to support his family. The future stretched bleakly before him. He was poor and without education. Already he dreamed of becoming an actor, but he had nothing with which to implement his dream. He was not handsome; his eyebrows were bushy, his nose crooked, his mouth too small. A defect in the structure of his tongue gave him a speech impediment that only an expensive operation could remedy. He was painfully aware of local prejudice against Mexicans; even his Irish name did not save him from insult and abuse. The world was not a kindly place for Anthony Quinn. Wants to want child (“I want this child of mine to feel loved, and wanted,” he said in Paris. “I don’t want him to grow up feeling a sense of rejection.”) When Quinn was seventeen, he talked a surgeon into performing the necessary tongue operation on credit. And he undertook his own education, reading voraciously, haunting museums and theaters. 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