Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1963)

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there’s no keeping up with the Joneses. “Hell, I don’t even know ’em.” There’s no talk of show business at home, no reading of scripts. “Just livin’ . . .” The house is complete with white carpets, Japanese and Danish modern furniture. “My wife must give money away, I don’t know what she does with it!” If Jim’s uncomplicated approach to life hasn’t changed, Jim’s status has — and with that change in status he has come up against a responsibility he abhors — publicity. “I’m not a great windbag,” he says, “In fact, being interviewed makes me feel funny.” It’s an invasion of his shell, the shell he has never entirely emerged from, that he’s still a little afraid to emerge from for fear of “maudlin” stories about the mother who died, or the stepmother he sassed, or the adopted child he taught to walk, or any of the other deeply felt moments of his life. How phony stories start “Publicity is the main thing I don’t like. I’d rather play golf than take publicity stills. I’d rather dig a ditch than do an interview. The premieres, going to a preview and watching yourself with the press right there — that’s part of what I don’t like. Phony stories . . . they’re my pet peeve in the whole world. That’s the thing that really bugs me. I think I should hate something and that’s it.” So he won’t do interviews and that leads to “phony stories.” “And right there,” I told him, “right there you’re making a mistake — the one you say you’ve never made.” And it is a mistake. But all he says in rebuttal is: “I’ve always looked at this as a career and a business. I want to be in it as long as I can. I’m doing the thing I’m best equipped to do ... to make my life and my wife and our children’s lives as secure as I can. In no other business could I make this kind of money and enjoy it so much. And yet, this is really t lie most insecure business in the world. You’re subject to the whims of the public. I’ve taken gambles. When I left Warners, people said. ‘He’s ruined his career.’ I had to have the courage of my convictions, do what I think. And like I say, I feel I never made a mistake. If I had, I wouldn’t be where I am right now — and that’s pretty good!” What Jim is really saying is that despite every mistake he’s ever made, every foolish gesture, every fear he’s had — even the fear that the public might get to know him — his life lias been divinely guided. I know what Jim means. He senses that everything he’s done, every move he’s made has helped him become today’s Jim Garner and made possible today’s career. He’s right. We are the sum total of our lives, the right, the wrong, the noble and the not-so-noble. We are our own summation. And he is his. — Jane Kessner Jim’s in “The Thrill Of It All,” U-I, “The Wheeler Dealers,” M-G-M, and “The Great Escape,” for United Artists. 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