Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1947)

over to the table where I was having dinner with friends, and said, ‘Are you an actress? You have a spiritual face.’ He told me to report the next day to the set of ‘Major Barbara.’ I had no idea what a movie was like. I didn’t know whether the camera was behind me or in front of me. I couldn’t coordinate the words with the action. And Mr. Pascal kept shouting at me, ‘You’re hopeless.’ “I sobbed, I cried, I vowed I’d never come back,” Deborah continued. “But on the fourth day I finally caught on. “I was the Salvation Army girl smacked by Robert Newton,” she reminded me. “Pascal is a realist (nice way of putting it) and he went on with the scene until one in the morning. Each time I was slapped Mr. Pascal said, ‘Wonderful!’ And each time I was smacked I prayed, ‘Please God, let it be all right for the next take.’ Robert Newton is a big man, and all told, he hit me fourteen times on the face. After the thirteenth take the assistant director said, ‘Gabby, she’s had enough.’ ‘No,’ Mr. Pascal shouted. ‘She’s young, she must suffer for her art!’ ” Pascal and Debbie have had many a laugh over this incident. And today they are very good friends. “He came to see me when he was in Hollywood,” Debbie relates. “But he never behaves like anyone else. We saw a man prowling around the house and it was Gabby. He was walking around tapping at the window and saying, ‘Alio, are you in?’ It would have been too simple for him to have walked in at the door!” DEBORAH was born in Helensburgh, a small village in Scotland. The year, 1921. As a child -she never said like so many little girls, “I want to be an actress.” And she rarely went to see movies. “At first I wanted to be a dancer but I grew too tall.” (She is five-feet-six-and-a-halfinches in her stocking feet.) “But, I remember that at eleven, I wanted to be a welfare worker for children! That’s because a girl at school wanted to do that. A year later I wanted to be a veterinary because I liked dogs. I always had a passion for little things, babies and puppies.” Now Deborah is in the seventh heaven of delight because she is expecting her own baby on Christmas Day. Meantime, Deb knits cute little pink things for the baby. “I want to make enough woolens to keep the baby warm when we go to England in March.” The trip is as much to show the child to its grandparents, as for Debbie to star for Metro in their British studio in “Young Bess.” “We’re going to have two children,” she announces with a smile at her husband. “Then we’ll stop and think about it.” Deb and Tony haven’t yet decided on a name for the baby. “I wish,” says Tony, “that we hadn’t called our dog Jason — that would have been a wonderful name for a boy!” At Metro, Deborah is not yet in the star row of dressing rooms. She will be when they have room. But it doesn’t bother her. She is not the kind of girl to worry about where she is. 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