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BY ERNST JACOBI
It happened about a year ago — at the premiere of “The Charge at Feather River.” The applause was enormous, a sure indication that the picture was going to be a hit and its hero a star again. But one large, gray-haired woman in the audience didn’t take part in the clapping and the shouting. She sat in her seat, sobbing like a child.
During the past twelve years she had known, and believed in, the picture’s young star. She knew that for him there had been few ups and many, many downs, that it had been a long, hard road to tonight’s success. For Guy Madison, this was one of life’s rare moments of triumph.
Once before Guy had made a big splash only to fizzle out.
He’d made his debut ten years earlier in a three-minute scene at a bowling alley in a tear-jerker called “Since You Went Away.” That scene drove bobby-soxers into hysterics and made Guy a star overnight. Supremely handsome, he became the nation’s number one pin-up boy.
The large motherly looking woman who sat sobbing in the audience that evening knew the story well. ( Continued on page 81)
A new house, a new tuxedo, dates with girls like Barbara Warner show new, happier side
Friends advised him against taking the Wild Bill Hickok role, but it brought him tv fame — second chance at movies
“He couldn’t have held on if he hadn’t had great character” says agent Helen Ainsworth, who first discovered Guy at twenty