TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1962)

important in our lives. There's no question about it. To us, our children and ourselves come first. George and I love show business, but we know our careers in it can't last forever. I'm much more interested in the success and durability of my life as Mrs. George Montgomery than my career as Dinah Shore." In actions, she made sure that she spent all possible time with her husband and children, and hardly let a day go by that she didn't drive home from the studio to have dinner with the family — even if she then had to drive back to the studio for more work. A much more serious problem in the Montgomerys' marriage was summed up in the speculation that "George couldn't stand the fact that his career was going nowhere while Dinah was more successful than ever." George seemed to be content in taking a back seat while his wife was in the career-driver's seat. He seemed to be content with puttering around in his basement workshop making furniture, a hobby that suddenly blossomed out into a successful business. He seemed to be satisfied in just making an occasional picture — actually, about fifty pictures in which he always saved the old homestead or captured the rustlers. But it couldn't have been easy, sometimes, to hear himself referred to as "Dinah Shore's husband" or to remember that he'd once been heralded as "a star of today and a movie great of tomorrow." Not that Dinah didn't try to involve him in her own career and success; she did. She consulted him every point along the way, she asked for and depended upon his candid and honest reactions to her performances. She often had him as a guest on her Chevy Show. As the years went by, the transformation of "plain 'Fannye' Shore" into "glamorous Dinah Shore" was almost miraculous. In 1955 and 1956, she received Emmy awards for being the best female singer, and in 1957, 1958 and 1959, she was given the same prized statuettes for being television's outstanding female personality. During the past twelve months, she was awarded fifteen top honors, including a citation by the Gallup poll as "one of the ten most admired women in the world," a distinction shared with such ladies as Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt. But George — rankling, according to some of his friends, at just being "Mr. Shore" — tried to revive his own stagnant career by starring in ■ a TV show, Cimarron City. The show was neither successful nor unsuccessful, neither praised nor panned. It just stumbled along and then folded. Of course, it was a shock to Dinah when the Chevrolet people didn't renew her own contract after five long and profitable years. It was a shock and yet it was also a blessing in disguise. Now she could cut down her shows from twenty to ten a year, now she could see more of George and the kids. "The kids are getting bigger, and now, for the first time, I get home when they're getting home from school," she said. "You know, you can drive yourself crazy trying not to let your show interfere with your family. Actually, 1 wanted to cut down to only two shows this year, but I didn't quite make it." She said something else, too, in a kind of desperation that came from the heart of a woman who realized her marriage was shaky: "The only thing I want most out of life is to be a good wife and mother. If I accomplish that goal, it will be there long after the spotlights and the microphones are gone." But something else was happening to Dinah's marriage, too, something that a cut-down TV schedule and more time at home with the family couldn't help. George was being seen in the company of "other" women. Rumors about that had started more than two years ago, but then they were shrugged off as being "silly." After all, Hollywood is the "biggest small town of them all," where if a man has lunch with a woman, the columnists record it the following day; and if a man kisses a woman on the cheek or holds her arm while crossing the street, everyone is convinced they're having an affair. George was trying to start all over again as a producer-director-actor, so it was natural that he be seen in the company of pretty actresses. George was trying to learn the techniques of being a director, so it made sense that he'd hang around the sets of Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Maverick, and SurfSide 6. It was on the set of the latter show that the rumors started flying about George and Diane McBain. "He couldn't keep his eyes off her," one of the crew members confided. "The two spent a lot of time together talking. It was kept very hush-hush, naturally, as he was a married man." Diane insists there was no romantic attachment between her and George, yet one of her close friends claims that they did date and that he (the friend) had the two of them up for dinner one night at his apartment. The relationship — if one existed — was just a passing one. "She wouldn't have given him a second look," one friend says, "if she thought that his marriage was a happy one. Yet George, in the Philippines, made it clear that he and Dinah were headed for a divorce court." The Philippines — when George went there to make two pictures, the rumors began in earnest, except that they involved another "other" woman, sexy Israeli actress Ziva Rodann. On the day after Christmas two years ago, George took off for the Philippines for location shots. He stayed six months. On her Christmas show that year, Dinah had Missy as her guest. 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