TV Radio Mirror (Jan - Jun 1961)

and applied to the Beverly Hills School Board for a position. There were to be six vacancies, the following fall, and there were five hundred applicants. I wound up with an appointment to teach second grade — one of the biggest thrills and most flattering triumphs of my life to date. However, during the summer, my thinking changed. For the first time in four years, I had a chance to see a great deal of television, and many movies. I had a chance to talk with Daddy about his profession, and to share the excitement (and occasional discouragement) of many of my friends who were getting a show-business start. I knew then that I wanted to be an actress. Before I resigned my teaching position, I had my "most serious" talk with Daddy. He started out by saying that the only truly happy career for a girl was marriage, a home, and children. He added that show business could provide a thrilling, engrossing, instructive experience for a girl, if it could be regarded only as an experience, not a career. He said, "Never forget that any public career is a tremendous burden. No girl should be expected to take on the enormous responsibility of bringing up a family while trying to maintain a public career. If you want to be an actress while you're very young, be one. Be the best possible, within your talent and training. But remember always that acting should be a part of living; it should not be your life. I don't want to have a shattered little girl, destroyed by a senseless chase after a stuffed rabbit. Some things are not worth capturing." He went on, "If you want to have the experience of acting, there is one more thing you should know. You can't divide a personality. You can't come across the footlights, or over the movie or TV screen, as a warm, genuine, responsive human being, unless you are warm, genuine and responsive. 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