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To be Howard Hawks’ discovery, to have this coveted role, to be co-starred with Kirk Douglas — this must be it. . . . When he finished “Big Sky,” Dewey Martin went to Sun Valley to do a skiing layout for a magazine, and he was doubly sure. Mardie Havelhurst, twenty-two, a lovely co-ed from Oregon State, was working there doing publicity, and she posed with him for the layout. She was fresh and unaffected, with expressive green eyes, a lilting laugh, and the most intriguing red hair he’d ever seen. “I flipped when I saw her cute poodle cut,” says her husband, with a teasing glance in Mardie’s direction. Back in her home town, Portland, Oregon, Mardie had always been very popular. An outdoor girl, she was her father’s favorite hunting and fishing companion. During the winter she attended Oregon State, majoring in music. Life was happy and full. Then one day while crossing the campus, chattering along with school friends, life seemingly stopped for her. It had been raining, and a prankish collegian, “a real ha-ha boy,” suddenly jumped on Mardie’s back to piggy-back across a mud puddle in front of them. “I went down. I don’t remember what happened, until I came to in the hospital.” She had a crushed disc in her back. During anxious weeks that followed, specialists “didn’t think I would ever walk again.” They advised an operation immediately. “If you operate — what then?” Mardie asked, wanting and getting a straight answer. They couldn’t guarantee she would walk, but. . . “And if you don’t?” she asked. Then it would be up to God and time. “No operation,” decided Mardie firmly. “I was on a board, laid up for months,” Mardie says now. “But she had the will to overcome it,” Dewey adds proudly. Finally she walked again, then as she gained strength, became almost her active self again. She took a job at Sun Valley, and met Dewey Martin. They posed for pictures by the ski lift. They swam. They danced in the “Ram Room.” They went for a moonlight sleigh ride. And they fell in love. “Just all of a sudden, it happened,” as Dewey puts it. “As corny as this may sound — it did just happen,” Mardie adds slowly. “It was as if we'd known each other years and years.” “I’d been such a lone wolf. I had no desire to get married or to be a family man. If I hadn’t met Lucky, I still wouldn’t be married,” Dewey says. They were married in the wedding chapel of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas the day after the preview of “The Big Sky,” with Dewey’s future glowingly forecast. It was at the preview that Mardie realized she’d fallen in love with a motion picture star. “I’d never seen him on the screen. I just couldn’t realize the fellow up there was Dewey. It seemed so strange.” During their first year together however, with Dewey’s mounting tension regarding his career, and with Mardie’s difficulty in adjusting to her new surroundings, their marriage began to show strain. Dewey began to wonder whether he would ever work again. As for Mardie, the whole motion-picture business was confusing. “Lucky likes a normal home life. She didn’t like living in a goldfish bowl.” “We’d lived such different lives,” Mardie says now. “I’d always had my mother, my family and friends. Here I didn’t know anybody, and I had nothing in common with the few people I did meet.” “Our family backgrounds were different too,” Dewey adds. “Mardie comes from a Norwegian family, and she was used to a close, warm family life, with all the holiday touches and the friendly get-togethers. She’s had to teach me to enjoy this. I’d always been afraid to like people.” “We’ve both made adjustments,” Mardie says. “Dewey has so much drive; he gets so intense about things. I’m more lethargic. I’d just rather take things lah-de-dah. I’m sure this used to drive him crazy.” But their confined living was the greatest source of unhappiness for her. “I felt so caged up in an apartment, and it was getting the better of me — ” This changed when they found the redwood-and-glass modern cottage at Malibu, with a horizon all their own, and the blue Pacific with its changing moods and music at their front door. And as option time neared again, Dewey worked off his restlessness answering fan mail, working with the lobster traps, and exploring the beach with their boxer, Calypso. Then suddenly any anxiety about his career or options was relatively unimportant. For Mardie found she was going to have a baby. Along with their natural joy, Dewey was concerned for her. For the hazards, the discomfort, that motherhood might mean for her. He felt easier when Mardie went to Portland to consult the family physician who was familiar with all the facts of her nearly fatal accident. With Mardie’s aversion to goldfish bowls, Dewey was determined to keep this event, so sacred to them, out of the columns, if possible. And theirs was the best-kept secret in Hollywood. With Fate’s dramatic timing, Dewey got his release, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed him to a long-term contract. They were starring him immediately in “The Tennessee Champ,” to be followed by “Panther Squadron Eight.” “This is it, Lucky,” Dewey said, facing the cameras again. But he’d never known more surely than that moment, that the kid from Katemcy who’d searched for security all his life, found it when he met his Lucky. And that gold halo he’d fancifully envisioned for movie stars belonged on Mardie’s own shining red hair. Success, as such, would be measured by their happiness together. This, finally, was it. The End Read ivhat Hedda Hopper has to say on WHY THOSE TORRID HOLLYWOOD ROMANCES BURN THEMSELVES OUT In January Photoplay on sale December 9 102