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everything that happens are .''Iways right. I couldn't wish for any bettei inheritance for our child."
In New York, the Coogans live on the upper East Side, in a comfortable, roomy, homey apartment. Summers, they spend in 'their cottage on Long Island, overlooking Great South Bay, where they swim and fish and boat — and a small boy can dream big dreams of sailing the Seven Seas. And, always, the three of them spend a lot of time together.
They have had the same after-prayers routine, at Rick's bedtime, ever since he first began to talk. Like most kids, he hated to have his parents leave him with nothing to do but go to sleep — and who cared about sleep when so much of interest was still going on in the grownup world? He could always think of one last question he wanted to ask, and finally that turned into three questions, repeated nightly. First question: Will you give me chocolate milk? This meant that, if he woke up during tihe night, it was already settled that he could have some milk. He still asks it — but practically never wakes up. Second question: Will you leave the door open? This was because the door was closed until he got to sleep, opened before his parents went to bed. It stays open now, but it's part of the bedtime ritual to ask — and perhaps it's still a form of security for a little boy left alone in a big room. Third question: Will you have breakfast with me? This one is still very important, answered in the affirmative, except on rare occasions.
"Sunday breakfast is particularly important now to Rick," Dick explains. "I don't play golf on Sundays. But, after church, we like to go to the club for breakfast. The big dining room pleases Rick. All the men eat there and this makes him feel grown-up. It's a very special date that morning."
Dick says he "discovered golf" a few years ago, and admits now it was rather rough on Gay and Rick when he became a golf fanatic overnight. Even at home, he spent his time reading books on the game to improve his techniques, practicing putting and swings. He takes it a little more lightly, but he shoots in the middle seventies, and has Rick handling a small set of clubs like a pro. "Want to see a kid hit the ball the way it should be hit?" someone will frequently taunt an adult who has been working hard at the
game all morning and slicing every shot. Dick glows with pride at the tribute, but Rick takes it in stride, never shows off.
Just like his daddy. Rick works hard at what he wants to learn. He takes to sports like a Presley does to rock 'n' roll. He skis with the grown-ups, rides a bike in a way to make your hair stand on end, swings a bat like a big -leaguer, began to sit a horse like a veteran when he was only three years old. Gay put regular ballbearing roller skates on him at two and let him learn balance and movement in their hallway, where the carpet gave him security. Later, they fovmd a beat-up patch of grass in the park, to practice outdoors, before going on the pavement with the big children.
Gay is a tennis fan. Her grandfather was national singles and doubles champion of the United States at one time, and she has his strong serve and forehand and backhand. Dick plays some tennis with her, and she goes to the golf driving range with him.
Together, father and son make things in Dick's basement workshop. Airplanes. Boats. Bookcases and shelves. There are always some pets around the house, usually a couple of parakeets, a canary, and always their beloved old black cocker spaniel, "Shadow," and the French poodle, "Misty." Rick has the normal small boy's love for all living things.
When Dick isn't busy with his carpentry, he's apt to be at his easel, painting. He's self-taught so far, was offered thirty-five dollars for his second painting, a landscape, but decided such an "early Coogan" should be kept in the family and not sacrificed for mere money.
Art will never interfere with Dick's acting career — but journalism almost did, first at high school in his home town of Madison, New Jersey, and then at Emerson College, in Boston. "I found out that what they say about writing is true — that it's the art of applying the seat of your pants to the seat of a chair. I guess the prospect of that much hard work scared me ofE. Little did I realize that acting, or anything else you work at, requires the same devoted concentration.
"There were ten children in our family, and I'm the only one who become an actor. A teacher got me interested in school dramatics during a period when I was ill and couldn't participate much in sports.
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I have had a lot of other jobs besides acting during the early lean years — from running an elevator, to selling, to defense work in an ordnance plant — but I always went back to radio and the theater. I did countless roles before television, and made my TV debut in 1945 in The Front Page. For a long time, during my Captain Video television period, I was doing six evening performances and two matinees on the New York stage with Mae West in 'Diamond Lil.' Sometimes, I didn't know who I really was."
Now, as Paul Raven in Love Of Life, Dick Coogan is a marked man wherever he goes. Kids in the nighborhood still call him "Captain," but everyone else refers to him as "Paul." In fact, as Dick himself points out, "New people I meet are much more interested in this fellow Raven than they are in Coogan. I was speeding across the Triborough Bridge to New York one day last summer, coming in from Long Island, already fifteen minutes late for rehearsal and trying to make up time. A police car suddenly appeared out of nowhere and I knew there was no use trying to talk my way out of that. When I reached for my driver's license and car registration, they weren't there, so I was in an extra bad jam.
" 'And I'm late for rehearsal,' I groaned.
" 'You in show business?' the officer asked, giving me a look that said, This is impossible because you don't look like any actor. 'What show?'
"I told him he wouldn't know about the show because it was a noontime program on television. A show called Love Of Life."
" 'What part do you play?' he asked suspiciously, and I told him Paul Raven.
"He gave me a quick once-over. 'So you're the guy who has been giving me a hard time with my wife,' he said. 'All she does it talk about this Raven guy. And aU I'd have to do is go home and say I gave Raven a ticket, when he was only trying to get to his show on time, and I'd never hear the last of it. To prove to his wife that he had really met me, I had to send an autographed picture. I couldn't have been happier to comply with that request!"
Gay doesn't mind this admiration for her husband. She doesn't even mind when letters come in from women, asking if he is married, and saying what fine, devoted wives they could be if only a man like Paul would look their way. She doesn't mind the fact that she and Dick can't walk into a store or a restaurant or theater any more, without her husband being recognized and asked for his autograph. Or that they have to keep changing their telephone number because groups of kids call up just to hear his voice on the phone.
She doesn't even mind when people write to ask if Paul and Vanessa — who is played by Bonnie Bartlett — are married in real life, as Ihey are on the show. She knovvs this only proves what good actors they are. However, she has been known to tease her husband by complaining that, when the script calls upon him to kiss Van, he needn't appear to enjoy it so much!
Dick himself thinks that Gay and his TV wife, Vanessa, are alike in many ways. In their love of children and their patience and understanding of them. In the level-headed way they both meet their problems, and the courage with which they face any crisis. But mostly in the way Gay always helps him and stands beside him, as Van helps Paul.
Undoubtedly, among aU those fans in this country and Honolulu and heaven knows what other distant shores, there is no more staunch one than Gay. She and young Rick know and share Richard Coogan 's Love Of Life.