TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1956)

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I studied with Stella Adler, a wonderful teacher. I studied French three evenings a week for two years. The study still goes on and I've been getting the equivalent of a college education. For example, I have a list of classics to be read. I'm working down that list. I haven't read a contemporary book in a couple of years." Jim Lipton has been succeeding as an actor. He has also made two movies. In 1950, he went to Greece to play the lead in the film, "Wheel of Fire," and followed this up with another, "The Big Break" — in which he was on the screen for all but three minutes. On Broadway, he has played in Lillian Hellman's "The Autumn Garden" and has held the lead in "Dark Legend." He has been Dr. Grant in The Guiding Light for four years. He's played in about every night-time TV dramatic show. He met Nina on a TV set. "That was the production of 'The Skin of Our Teeth.' Of course, I couldn't help noting the particulars about Nina. She's a beauty. Blueeyed. Blond. Pale skin. A beautiful figure. But she's a fine actress, and then it was all business. We just worked together." It was thirteen months before they met again. Nina was out of the city frequently. When Jim finally got through on the phone, she had a bad cold. A few days later, he phoned again. She still had the cold but allowed Jim to call. Another couple of dates and there was a spark. Time passed and the spark flamed and they married. The double-ring ceremony took place on a Saturday in Brooklyn. "I was working on The Guiding Light until late Friday," Jim recalls, "and then I had five days off. We wanted to marry on Saturday but couldn't find a judge to perform the ceremony. Most of them seem to play golf on Saturday. Finally, our attorney found a judge in Brooklyn who had a late date to tee off." Nina has said that Jim impressed her from the very beginning with his thoughtfulness. He didn't merely bring flowers. He first spun them into a gilded bird cage which held a colorful toy bird. And usually there was a reason behind the gift. Nina, although she has lived in the United States since she was eight, was born in Leyden, Holland. Her mother was an American actress and musical comedy star; her father, a distinguished Dutch musical conductor. In tribute to Nina's Dutch ancestry, Jim gave her colorful old Dutch maps. It's impossible to move a foot, anywhere in the apartment, without finding something intriguing to catch the eye. For example, in the living room there are a fork and spoon framed behind glass and hung on the wall — the utensils came from the personal table of George Bernard Shaw. The fork and spoon are ringed by original Daumier lithographs. There are a couple of plaques. One is Nina's Academy Award nomination. The other belongs to Jim and is the TV Radio Mirror Award for Favorite Daytime Actor. (Nina wears the gold medal which came with this Award, on her bracelet.) There is a scrawny but beautiful candelabra which holds fifteen candles. There is a Venetian map which is 400 years old. The walls are covered with, maps, prints, mementoes and paintings — some by Nina. Jim brought a vase from Greece that is 2500 years old and it is on the shelf of a French cabinet which dates back to 1640. In the casement of the window above the cabinet is a plant that stands better than five feet tall. "That's a fatshedera — and Nina's pride," Jim explains. "When she goes away for a time, she makes me solemnly swear that I will water it daily. You see, Nina has never had luck with plants. This is the first that insisted on growing, and she has become close to it. Once there was soil lice in the plant, and as much as the lice upset her, she stood by the plant and refused to throw it out. We finally killed the lice without harming the plant." Iheir apartment is about six floors above the street. The walls are white with a touch of pink. The carpeting is green. Generally speaking, the apartment is furnished with antiques — English, Italian, French. Although it is as handsome as it is intriguing, the Liptons are getting crowded. In the bedroom, for example, is a stack of cartons that reaches to the ceiling. "That was my Christmas gift to Nina," Jim explains. "I gave her a complete darkroom. Rather the equipment for a darkroom. It's never been unpacked except to look at, for there's no place to set it up." Because they are crowded, they will be moving into a larger apartment — in a building now nearing completion. It will have an extra bedroom which Jim will use for his writing. And it will have a larger kitchen, important for Nina. "She is an excellent cook," Jim says. "You can tell that with just a glance at her spice and condiment shelf. I like to help in the kitchen and she is teaching me. She calls me her second chef. I'm allowed to slice onions, shell peas, stir things, turn the meat over and baste. I am permitted to make only mashed potatoes by myself." On Nina's recent Hollywood trip, she spent four months working in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments." Jim was home on the range alone. As a matter of fact, the day after Nina flew out, a delivery boy came calling with a gift from her. It was a cookbook for Jim, inscribed, "Now you're on your own." And he did prepare many of his own meals while she was away. He even invented a few recipes involving peanut butter — peanut butter spread over a steak before broiling, or peanut butter baked on corn on the cob. Nina was a little horrified at some of these experiments. "We used to talk to each other every night," Jim says. "We always try to, wherever we are. When Nina was in California, we talked an hour to an hour-and-a-half every evening. Came to hundreds of dollars each month. But, after all, if a marriage is going to succeed, you can't let distance keep you apart." This is one aspect of their lives which makes for problems. Jim stays close to New York, but Nina must go out of the city for weeks or months at a time — with a show, to make a picture or a personal appearance, to work in a summer theater. So it's hard to plan for the larger home they want, the children they hope to have. But anyone who knows Jim and Nina Lipton also knows that these problems will be worked out, too— in the same spirit of romance and understanding which has already marked their courtship and marriage in the hectic world of show business.