Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1963)

I don’t go around the corner without her and I don’t do anything without her. She’s a true friend. This great relationship, this marriage, is the most important thing I ever did in my life. What I was looking for, all those years in every port. Everyone’s looking, I think, consciously or subconsciously. You’re always hopeful you’re going to open that door and she’ll be there.” And Jack was a charmer, never at a loss for romance — that’s probably why he missed that ship and was court-martialed. But once he found what he was looking for, he didn’t hesitate. This chic girl with her dark eyes and hair, her flair for costume design, became Mrs. Lord as quickly as he could manage it. From that moment he was on his way to his life: work uniquely his and a mate uniquely his. “I was thinking the other night,” he says, “there are times in this business when no one believes in you except yourself— and there are times when you even lose faith in yourself. Any actor worth his salt has these moments of doubt, and anyone who says he doesn’t is a liar. This is a business in which you’re knocked down so often and so hard, you’ve got to be able to get up on the nine count. It’s what Coop called the ‘galvanized gut.’ I’ve got it and scars to prove it.” His wife “gentled” him But he’s also developed a gentleness and calm which, he says, he owes to Marie. “You can’t imagine how my wife worked on that gentleness.” And there were the three men he admired— all dead now — who were the combination of toughness and gentleness which, before Marie, he would never believe existed. They were Coop, and actor Walter Hampden and lawyer Joseph Welch. With Coop it was a “basic, genuine humility, an inside goodness — like the pure in heart shall see God. There wasn’t a mean or vain or petty bone in the man’s body. In a business where personalities clash and conflict, he was always above it — perfectly capable of fighting, but not, needing to. He was never down on the level where the carnal minds seem to operate. And knowing him was a reassurance that nobility and honesty do pay off. Marie adored Coop, as I did. Marie was a starry-eyed little girl around him.” Walter Hampden was seventy-four when Jack made a picture with him and found him “stimulated and stimulating — and gentle.” Then he met Joe Welch, who had just put Senator McCarthy down at his hearings and come off the conquering hero. Now he was to make his first appearance as an “entertainer” in a threepart “Omnibus” series. Jack played John Marshall and Joe Welch did the narration. He and Jack had an immediate rapport and treasured their friendship to the day of Welch’s death in 1960. “Now that I think of it,” says Jack, “the men I’ve admired most were gentle guys who were really rocks. And I thought you had to take people apart!” Now he knew what Marie was talking about. Jack Lord is a lucky man. He found himself a girl who believed in him and made him believe in himself. A talented designer, she was perfectly willing to give up her business as soon as he was earning a living in show business. Now she works WORLD-WIDE EXCLUSIVE! MARILYN MONROE LEFT A CHILD... HER LATIN LOVER TALKS! In an exclusive interview with Jose Bolanos, the man who loved Marilyn, you’ll learn about the child she left behind, what she meant to Jose and the plans they had. Be sure to read the never-before-published facts about Marilyn Monroe in the October issue of MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE ON SALE NOW PLUS THESE OTHER EXCITING ARTICLES: CENSORED ON TV! Marilyn Monroe Left a Child! DEBBIE "Please God Don’t Let R Next Baby THE HOTTEST CHAPTERS OF LIZ TAYLOR'S “LONDON DIARY” RICKY GETS READY FOR TWINS! Rick Nelson and his beautiful bride, Kris, are awaiting the birth of their first child . . . which may turn out to be children! STEVE McQUEEN: TENDER TIGER Steve would like the world to think of him as a tiger in Hollywood’s jungle. This may have been true at one time, but since love has come along, he’s a tender cub. GLENN CORBETT: Here’s an introduction to Hollywood’s hottest newcomer. And Many More Features in MOTION PICTURE The October Issue Now on Sale Wherever Magazines Are Sold p 81