TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1963)

blissfully changes the subject he's been leading up to all evening? Guess this all goes to prove that it isn't so important whether you win or lose — it's how you play the game that counts! Is this Donna's own country-girl wisdom? Or is it pure Elly May? Donna herself sees no difference. "I never have to ask the director — or anybody— why Elly May does so-and-so or stands one way or talks another. I already know. You see, I know her. I am Elly May." Her faith in a Power that protects the pure-hearted may have been bolstered by two personal experiences: The way big-city life turned out to be just as wonderful and friendly as she'd expected it to be — and her good fortune in getting to be Elly May. She'd had good roles guesting on TV and had made three movies — "Career" (for which Hal Wallis officially changed her name to Donna Douglas), "Li'l Abner" and "Lover Come Back" — but never played a continuing part in a regular series. So, VINCENT EDWARDS (Continued from page 41) to get laughed out of that neighborhood fast all you had to do was mention something sissy like movie star. Truck driver? Stevedore? Loader down at the fish market? Hood? These were all okay. Sure. But movie star? Just mention something like that and hoooooooo would they laugh you out of the place. So Vince was quiet about his decision. Yet, as the next few years passed, he began to work on it. And, unknown to anyone but himself, he embarked on a program of study and preparation and self-improvement that he knew in his bones would pay off some day, would have to — please God — pay off some day. In school, for one thing — P.S. 73, a junior high over on Macdougal Street — he joined what they called the Story Telling Club. There were about a dozen other kids in the club. They'd meet in the auditorium Thursday afternoons at three o'clock, and one by one they'd stand on the stage and make up little things to say, stories to tell. There was, of course, the clown who'd just get up there and say stupid things, do stupid things — a waste of everybody's time. There was, of course, the girl with the big buck teeth and the moony eyes who'd always end up telling how her parents fought all the time, who'd always begin to bawl and would have to be dragged to the girls' room to get her face dried. And then, of course, there was Vince, who'd get up there and start by saying strange and very dramatic things like "One time, in my past, I was in the country of England, a soldier for Her Majesty Queen Victoria — " and who'd spin a yarn this long and with so many heroics and feats of courage in it that you could never in a million naturally, she was bubbling over with eagerness when she was promised a chance to test for "The Beverly Hillbillies." Success— with a crash! Then, the very day of her big opportunity, she was in an automobile accident that almost ruined everything! "I was just half a block from my house," she sighs, "when somebody banged into the back of my car. "I was in the hospital sixteen days. "It seemed like just about every girl in the world wanted to be Elly May. So you can imagine my surprise when I got out of the hospital and discovered the part was still there!" Surprise? Why, Donna had to play Elly May because she is Elly May. And what chance did any of those big-city actresses have, once Donna turned on all her country-girl wisdom and charm? — Louise Ronka "The Beverly Hillbillies" go to town on CBS-TV, Wednesdays, at 9 p.m. est. years believe it all. Except that when he said it, somehow you did believe it. And sometimes you'd even clap, it would be such a good story he had told. There was, too, the candy store — that little place, over on Eastern Parkway — where Vince would hang around. "But not 'hang around' like most of the other kids," someone who works there recalls, "—spending an hour drinking their sodas and laughing it up and making the pain in the neck. Because Vince, instead, he would stand over there — where I keep all those magazines, see? — and he would read through them all, the ones about the movies, the ones about the action things, everything he'd read ... I remember one day my wife said to me, 'Hey, don't he ever buy none of those magazines?' And I said to her to never mind, to leave the kid alone, that here was a boy who was interested in learning things from his reading . . . and that it was good that a few people in this neighborhood at least wanted to learn a little something in life." Also important in Vince's program was health and body-building. Somewhere in his readings he'd come across an article about the value of a good physique in show business. And so he joined a boys' club in Flatbush — where he swam a few hours a week. 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