Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1949)

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"Nothing personal against you, of course. But I must refuse the picture." And she hung up. Cy's choler at this point is fairly understandable. He had to fight CBS's objections when he wanted Marie on the air as Irma; he had fought the good fight all over again when the story was sold to pictures, and Paramount wanted a "big star" for the part. And, while he may not have "captured" the character, he had created it. His screams were audible in Hollywood. After a double dose of a barbiturate, however, he looked the script over himself and had to agree that it wasn't right. So he packed his skiis, came back to Hollywood and rewrote it. Marie had been maddening, but right. These rare instances of self-assertion cost Marie something emotionally. Her drive to be better — "You can be g'ood if you want to enough," she says, "but to want to enough you have to want to enough" — is exceeded only by her need for love and reassurance. The deep, psychological reason for her generous dispersal of love in all directions is that she wants, and needs, to be loved back. She will risk a rebuff only if it's urgently necessary for her artistic survival. One has to remember about this child-woman that her parents were divorced before she was two, that her beloved daddy died when she was five, and that at an age when she should by rights have been still sheltered and mothered she was supporting — and mothering — her whole family. She mothers her own mother. Mrs. White is a completely charming — and fairly helpless — little woman whom Marie thinks is too frail to carry an extra bar of soap home from the market, but who, nevertheless, staggers in after a night of her favorite game of Keno loaded with fifty pounds in prizes she has won. If Marie has any moments of frailty, she doesn't let them show. She handles her problems, her husband's, and her family's, and has enough emotional energy left over to fight with Ken Murray for the rights of whichever chorus girl is in the doghouse this week, and with Cy Howard for any writer or actor currently feeling the boss's ire. Marie thinks, apparently, that it would be a sign of weakness for her to need anybody, and in the rare moments of great distress when she does reach out a hand for sympathy or help she is embarrassed. Once during the week when Allen and Marie were separated, right after Marie had filed suit for divorce, she telephoned Joan Banks and poured out her heart to her friend. The next time they met, Marie didn't mention the episode. She wanted to forget it. It had never happened. Life would be easier for Marie if she realized that the people who need her would like sometimes to be needed too. Allen, whose own career is at a stalemate at this moment, plans to go East in the fall to try to get a toe-hold in the theater. "I don't want to leave Marie even for a week," he says, "but I have to if I am ever going to make good on my own and stand on my own two feet." (He tried to make such a break last spring, but fell ill with undulant fever and hurried home to Marie and her mothering.) Allen is a handsome guy, and a good actor. He had a fat part in his most recent film, "Siren of Atlantis." but his friends say he can't claim to have made good on his own so long as Marie is in protecting distance. Marie was on the set every day Allen was shooting, one of their friends recalls, fiddling with his make-up. And when Allen and Gus Sckilling hit upon an idea for a revue and proposed to retreat to a mountain cabin to write it, Marie said Allen could go "if you take me to a movie every afternoon and get in every night by 10:30." Since the cabin was some hundred miles from Hollywood, the project was off. Allen likes to play tennis and golf, but Marie insists that she's "lazy." Her only recreation is the movies — she goes every day when she isn't working, and loves the weepy ones, dramas with Joan Crawford or Bette Davis. She never walks a block if she can drive, which she puts down to another sign of laziness, forgetting that she ran off three inches around her hips simply by tearing up and down stairs to her dressing room at "Blackouts" and melted away ten pounds during the arduous weeks when she was filming "My Friend Irma." Except for such occupational exercises, and ocean swimming which she do you have a heart of gold? Or, do you KNOW someone whose good works and unselfishness deserve recognition? You can tell about it AND win a valuable prize on ii 99 ladies be seated Monday — Friday ABC Stations TOM MOORE, M.€. For details of the "Heart Of Gold" contest, read the current issue of TRUE ROMANCE magazine now at newsstands! (