TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1963)

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in low with mother! MIKE LANDONB OWN STORY "I discovered too late that you can't be a father first and a husband second. It has to be the other way around." This is the lesson Mike Landon learned after four unhappy years of knowing he was married to one woman and in love with another. "I love my wife Lynn very much," he said. "But when I married Dodie, my first wife, I think it was mainly because I wanted to be a father to her son, Mark." Yet before Mike could straighten out his tangled life, he had to risk losing not only Mark but also Josh and Jason, the two baby boys he and Dodie had adopted. He did it because he had finally come to the point where he was ready to risk everything for a chance at real love. Mike was only nineteen when, against his mother's wishes, he married twenty-five-year-old Dodie Fraser, a widow with a six-year-old son. And he did enjoy being a father to young Mark. He took him on hunting trips, became den master of his Cub pack at school, and spent hours listening to the things that were very important to a small boy. Acting jobs were few and far between for Mike in those days. Yet when he finally became a star of "Bonanza" and the show climbed into the top ten, the problems he and Dodie shared were not solved. If anything, they were amplified. For now they didn't have their joint struggle against hardship to hold them together, and they found that their real problems were inside the marriage, and not caused by poverty alone. {Continued on page 87) 55