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But the ceremony was performed as scheduled — with Bob Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe as best man and maid of honor, respectively. How did Lita happen to be on location with Rory? Ah, that brings up another unique aspect of the Calhoun design for marriage — unique, that is, for Hollywood, where wives don’t, as a rule, accompany their star husbands on location trips. But very soon after their wedding, Rory had to go to Navaho country in Arizona to make a picture. It was his kind of country — lots of sky and space, no crowds, primitive living conditions — like a big camping trip. Rory should have been in his element— and he was just plain miserable. He called Lita long distance every night to hear her voice. He made up his mind then that never, but never, if he could help it, would he go anywhere without her again. So Lita accompanies Rory on location trips and on the hunting and fishing trips he loves, too. This hot-house product of night clubs and show business has learned to rough it with the best of them. “And I enjoy it, too,” she says staunchly. “Oh, I admit I mightn’t if Rory didn’t love it so. But he does, you see, and that makes all the difference. I think it’s a wife’s — ” she hesitated, “not her duty — no, I don’t mean that — I think it’s her — privilege, to enjoy the things her husband enjoys, to share his pleasure in them. I didn’t hanpen to have the kind of life that would teach me to like sports and outdoor living, but I don’t see why that means I can’t learn to like them.” But of course this business of sharing works both ways. Rory knows that, and if Lita accomoanies him on rugged location trips, he goes with her when she is booked for a few weeks into some swanky Manhattan night spot. If, because of picture commitments, he can’t go — then Lita doesn’t accent the engagement. Frequently, too, Rory buttons himself into a boiled shirt and dinner jacket and takes Lita out for dinner and dancing. It’s not his sort of thing at all, any more than cooking over a camp fire is Lita’s, but he has fun — because Lita does. Maybe this all sounds too perfect. And maybe you’re thinking that Rory and Lita sound like two little angels with halos, bowing and saying to each other, “Just as you like, darling.” Well, they aren’t! With Lita’s Latin temper and Rory’s Irish one, their fights are something to see and hear (Not that anyone does — they have the good taste to keep them private) . But when a good heated fight is over, it’s over — no lingering resentment. Since she and Rory were married, Lita has continued her career — and this fact admittedly doesn’t fit into the old-fashioned pattern of their life together. But — it is quietly taken for granted between them that Rory’s work comes first, Lita’s second. Thus they avoid the rock on which so many Hollywod marriages crack up. There is no competition between them, no fear that one will become career-wise, “bigger” than the other. Lita is an expert In singing and dancing, a branch of entertainment in which Rory is content to be sin appreciative spectator. He is proud when he watches her charm a chattering nightclub audience into rapt silence. It makes him feel good. The Calhoun home in Beverly Hills is run according to a traditional American system. Since his wedding day, when Rory’s wordly possessions were one thousand dollars in the bank and a mortgaged car, he has become considerably more affluent. But he and Lita employ no butler, no maid, no servant of any kind except a woman who comes in once a week to do the heavy cleaning. “When you do things around the place yourself, you take more interest in your home,” they firmly believe. ; Lita found the house, a New England i ’ style place with a roomy backyard, a swimming pool and numerous trees. Lita also supervised the decorating. Like any sensible husband, Rory leaves such matters | ; to his wife’s judgment. Lita also supervises Rory’s forays into carpentry, which have included, so far, building a knotty . pine breakfast nook and converting the former maid’s room into a pine-panelled den — both very workmanlike and professional. His own special project, so far incomplete, is building a “Western room” over the garage as a haven for his saddles, guns, arrows and eighty-pound draw bows. There is one lack in their marriage, and they both feel it keenly: They have no children. The one time they seemed about < to become parents, Lita lost the baby. They 1 have been assured by their doctor there is * no reason to fear they won’t have children eventually, and they are both hoping for that time to come . . . soon, if possible. Meanwhile — well, Rory’s contentment i can best be measured by something that . happened a couple of years ago. You re v member that when he first began acting in pictures it was his canny thought to buy ; a ranch as soon as he had the money, as a i backlog of security. Soon after Lita and j he were married, they bought that ranch c near Ojai. They lived on it for a couple of years, too. Rory drove the seventy j miles to the studio and back each day he j was working. He still couldn’t believe he’d \ be a success in pictures, but he knew he j could earn a living as a rancher. Today that ranch is run by a foreman. “I , couldn’t devote enough time to it,” Rory a says laconically. “Too busy at the studio.” Which means, translated, that for the first ^ time in his life Rory Calhoun is happy and j secure where he is — in Hollywood, of all a places. The End 10 REACH THE STARS J In most cases your letters will reach a star j if addressed in care of the studio at which j he made his last picture. If you have no j luck there, try c/o Screen Actors Guild. 8 7046 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28. Cal. I ★ 1 * Allied Artists, 4376 Sunset Drive, Hollywood Columbia Pictures, 1438 N. Gower St., Hollywood Goldwyn Studios, 1041 N. Formosa Ave., Los Angeles M-G-M, 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City Paramount Pictures, 5451 Marathon St., Hollywood i RKO Studios, 780 Gower St., Hollywood Republic Pictures, 4024 Radford Ave., N. Hollywood 20th Century-Fox, 10201 W. Pico Blvd., Beverly Hills United Artists, 8272 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood Universal-International, Universal City Warner Brothers Studios, 4000 W. Olive Ave., Burbank