TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1963)

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done right to buy that car so soon, and whether stardom — sweet stardom — was really just a fingertip away. Certainly the signs were not good during the making of the picture. Recalls Sal Sodano, an old hometown buddy of Vince's: "They made it in Sunnyside, Queens — not far from Brooklyn. And I'll never forget when they dyed Vince's hair blond for that picture. We all went down with him to see what he'd end up looking like. And when it was over — the dye-job — we started to kid him and he was so ashamed, selfconscious, that he ran down the street to a hat store, bought a cap, put it on his head and wouldn't take it off for anything." Recalls another friend, beginning with understandable understatement: "I guess the picture didn't do so hot at the box office. Because a few months after it came out — Vince had to sell the Buick for the dough." The phony promise It was, too, a few months after the picture's release when Vince decided that if you wanted to be a movie star you didn't hang around a place like Sunnyside, Queens . . . but that you went out to a place like Hollywood, California. And so he did (in a big and not-so shiny blue-and-white bus). And so began ten long years of what turned out to be a monotonous sunshine, and phony promises — ten long years of a seemingly hopeless existence that would have twisted the guts of any other guy and sent him packing for the Merchant Marine or a job at Vic Tanny's or a stool at the nearest bar. Except that Vince had sworn to himself, from the beginning, that he would stick with it, come what may — come all the lousy breaks and embarrassments and heartbreak and lies that they could load him down with. And it was hell for a while; for too long a while. "Sorry, Vince, but that interview I promised you at Metro for tomorrow? Well, it's off. Canceled. They just gave the part to somebody else." "Okay." "Vincent? Listen. You're not going to like this script — this thing they're calling 'Hiawatha.' And you're not going to like the big ugly Indian they're going to make you play. But here's the contract. I'd suggest you sign it. After all — gotta eat, you know." "Okay . . . Okay." For ten years this went on. For ten years Vince worked at every crummy movie job that came his way — when it came. And it's strange, and ironic, how when the big break finally did come for Vince — it came through another medium, called television. Says Vince's pal and stand-in, Ray Joyer: "He'd done a little TV for the past few years. Playing gangsters, mostly— that was the only thing they seemed to want him for. And then one day, a year and a half ago, Vince called me up and said he was trying out for the lead in a series called 'Ben Casey.' I asked him what kind of series it was. And he said, 'This one's got something to do with a doctor.' " As we all now know, "Ben Casey" had a very definite something to do with Vince Edwards' career. In fact, it would be silly at this point to say anything less than that Vince has become — almost overnight, as it were — one of the most popular personalities in the entire history of the home screen. As it would be untrue at this point to say that this enormous success had completely fulfilled Vince, and made him the happiest guy in town. Because, until recently, it hadn't. Why not? Well, we could begin to list the reasons, to talk about the hard work involved (memorizing fifteen pages of dialogue every night) , the long hours (from seven in the morning till seven, sometimes eight, at night), the lack of glamour (the story is told how on Monday nights at ten o'clock — at the beginning of what should be a gala hour for Vince — he's often so exhausted he falls asleep smack in the middle of his show) . We could list more reasons and talk about this and that and the other thing — and perhaps approach an answer. But the true answer came one day from Vince himself, in a talk with a Hollywood columnist. He said it all in rather few words, as is his way. He said it simply, and honestly. "I'm grateful to television," he said. "It gave me my big chance after the movies gave me a knocking around for years. Yet I've got to be truthful and admit that I'd still like to be big in movies. You know — the guy who stands there on that big screen, holding the girl. You know — the star. The movie star . . ." The dream comes true And finally it happened. Not too long ago. In Salerno — one of the loveliest towns in all of Italy. It was nightfall. They stood in the doorway, Vince Edwards and the beautiful Italian girl. They turned to look at one another. And then they held one another, and kissed — the longest of kisses. "Cut!" the director yelled after a while. "Vieni qui," a woman called out to starlet Rosanna Schiaffano, " — come here and I will fix your hair." It was between-takes time on a crucial love scene in a seven-million-dollar movie epic to be called "The Victors" — and the confusion was rampant. "Buddy — can you adjust that second arc light?" "Fred, do you think you can bring the camera a little closer next time around?" "Mario, hurry with the coffee. Subito. Subito!" It was a hurry-time in normally slowpaced Italy because time was all important, because the producer had broken his neck to get Vince Edwards for the lead part in this expensive and important motion picture and because Vince Edwards — the star of this picture, whose name would be listed first in the -__ ■ '■' ' * / r \ \\ A r YOUNG THROATS FOR OLD Just tie our amazing chemical pad on, and proceed with, normal activity. Guaranteed safe and effective. Use one (1) hour a day for 30 days. Better than most plastic surgery. 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