TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1956)

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Jewel has since moved to the wide open spaces on a friend's Palm Springs ranch, leaving Bubbles the unquestioned queen of the household. Given a free moment in the summer, Ernie would spend it swimming in the family pool. When the weather turns cold, he'll take out one of his deer guns and give it a good cleaning with a promise for use. "Or," says Betty, "Ford and I will talk about the ranch . . . that seems to be our main preoccupation." But whether he's at the ranch or plan e to Er ning with Betty how it will continue play a growing part in their future, nie's thoughts revolve around the day he will be able to spend full-time on his 540 acres with the boys. If you were to draw a personality picture of Tennessee Ernie Ford, you'd find he fits the role of down-to-earth rancher as well as that of a Hollywood television star. His first thoughts in the morning are more concerned with the going price of hogs than with his own TV rating. It's almost more important to him to find that a new calf has been born than to know that his sponsors renewed his contract. And the fact that his young bull recently had a fever was more of a catastrophe to Ernie than that his morning TV show was pre-empted by the political conventions. To Tennessee Ernie, a handful of rich earth is just as important — if not more so — than a fistful of nice, green paper money. In fact, every morning, as he drives to work down the Hollywood Freeway in his new Ford, listening to the Farm Reporter on the car radio, he thinks to himself that he's going down the long road that will ultimately take him home . . . to the little bit of Tennessee he's planted on his Clear Lake ranch in Northern California. Home Girl (Continued from page 26) occasion, Doris's husband Larry has the kind of handsomely happy face that always looks comically pleasant. Larry couldn't look glum if he tried. "Doris," he repeated, with a worried note in his voice, "I think Danny's got the mumps." Doris's happy humming stopped. "Oh, no!" "Yes . . . look." And Danny — with Larry's hand on top of his head — peeked around the side of his father's leg, blinking at his mother. His jaws, just beginning to puff, ga^° him the look of a pale-faced chipmunk. jJoris's thoughts of a vacation flew. Rushing to his side, she exclaimed, "Oh, Danny!" Kneeling beside him, she gently placed one long, delicate hand against his now-round cheek. "Does it hurt?" "No," said Danny. Having never heard of mumps, he was rather pleased he had something nobody else in the house could lay claim to. "How do you feel?" asked Doris. "Fine — can I have a peanut-butter sandwich?" Oblivious to the fact that he was suffering from his first childhood disease, Danny still had a growing boy's appetite. An hour later, the doctor had come and gone, verified the diagnosis, and emphatically told Doris and Larry that Danny had to stay in bed from five to ten days. There went the poolside vacation. Ten minutes after the doctor left, Danny was propped up in bed, peanut-butter sandwich in hand, his automatic record-player on one side, his teddy-bear in arms, a portable TV set blaring in front of him . . . and Doris beside him reading Pogo, the family's favorite comic strip. It was then 11:30 A.M. Doris could be seen singing on the kinescoped Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. After her last number, it was plain to see that Ernie enjoyed Doris's singing. "Thank you, Doris," he said, his voice booming into Danny's *bedroom^-as Doris continued recounting Pogo's exploits. "Thank you, that was wonderful." Doris is, in fact, as sweet, simple and charming on Ernie's daytime show as she is at home with her young son Danny. So often, the star of a show like Tennessee Ernie's will thank his featured performers simply out of habit. But Ernie's daily program, though it is relaxed and easygoing, is not entirely an ad-lib show. So, when Ernie takes an extra few seconds to introduce Doris — and then, at the end of her number, to thank her for the way she has moved him with her song — you know he is sincere. " 'Wholesome' is the word for Doris," says executive producer Cliffie Stone. "Just like fcrnie, she is one of the most unaffected performers I've ever met. And that's not an easy quality to find in professionals— we auditioned fifty girls before we found Doris. I knew, the minute she started singing, that she was the one for us. . . . Besides her wonderful personality, Doris is a more than capable singer. She can deliver a ballad as well as a novelty tune. And, because she's taken the trouble to learn how to read music, Doris is a quick study. You'd be surprised at the number of professional singers who can't read music, relying on their ear to pick out the tune. Not Doris — and she therefore saves us rehearsal time. "Most important," Stone continues, "Doris is one of the most cooperative people I've ever worked with. Take our novelty numbers, for example. Once we did a tune called 'Mississippi Mud,' where we opened on Doris and Molly Bee sitting on a mock levee with their bare feet in a tray of mud. Some singers might hesitate to go along with this because they feel it makes them look unglamorous. Not Molly nor Doris. Another time, we asked Doris to sing a farm song while milking a cow on stage. Doris milked and sang. . . . We even had her sing a duet with Ernie while holding a squealing piglet! As exec-producer, I think I can safely say: If you want to know how cooperative a performer can be, just once ask him or her to sing a duet while holding a pig. . . . Doris never complains. She just smiles — and sings." Larry, her handsome husband, says, "It's hard for me to describe Doris's personality in one word. But, if I had to, I'd say she is warmhearted. Take our vacation with the mumps, for example . . . she was disappointed, sure — but you'd never guess it by watching her. She spent every minute with Danny. . . . And it wasn't easy — because Danny never knew he was sick. He still had plenty of energy, and keeping him in bed for five days took ingenuity.