Screenland (Nov 1945-Oct 1946)

Things You Don't Know About Cornel Wilde Continued from page 29 authority. People listen to him when he stands up for someone who is being pushed around. He can use his weight to stop injustice. It's satisfying, perhaps, to know he won't get fired if he sticks his neck out on someone else's behalf, but something else you may not know is that he was sticking his neck out even when it might have cost him his job. His wife, Patricia, tells this one on him. Years ago, when they were both starving young actors, they were working in a stock company. Cornel had just a small part, and the star of the show was a well-known, but temperamental actress. There was a kid in the show (who is now in Hollywood and in pictures) who was really green and scared stiff. It was his first play, and he missed an entrance. The actress was in a white rage. She lit into that kid with a vengeance. Cornel watched, his anger rising steadily. Finally, as she climaxed her blistering denunciation of the newcomer, Cornel got mad himself. He forgot it had been a long dry spell between plays. He forgot he needed money like he needed air. His face white with fury, he started to talk to the star. He bawled the devil out of her. He, 'way down on the cast list, bawled out the star! She was so surprised, she stopped yelling at the new kid and started staring at Cornel. She was completely taken aback. The next thing Cornel knew, she had gone over to the youngster, put her arms around him, and they were friends from then on. But she never spoke to Cornel again. That didn't matter to Cornel, although it must have been difficult working with someone as important as the star of the show who from then on out never recognized his existence. The important thing to Cornel was that the young kid got a break. Today, he still gets into fights on this same score. One thing sure to arouse his anger is when anyone steps on the little people of filmdom, or the green ones. He's taken a lot himself. As he says, "It's only been in the last two years that things have brightened up for me. Before that, I was in there for years trying to get a foothold." Yes, he took snubs and sarcasm, and held his tongue. But he can't hold his tongue when he sees someone else taking such things. He has to be their defender. Everyone knows the story of how he saw his wife for the first time on a busy New York street. She was wearing a black velvet suit; she looked beautiful, and Cornel did everything he could to get acquainted. He even thought up the new and original approach, "I'm sure I have met you somewhere before." "I'm sure you haven't," said Pat, marching on and right out of his life. New York is a big place, but Fate works overtime there just like any place else. Cornel ran into Pat three times in five days. In desperation, feeling she must be an actress, he tried that real oldie: "You ought to be in pictures," the third time he ran into her. He arranged for her to meet his agent, which she did. And, by the oddest coincidence, after the interview, Cornel took Pat out to dinner. Then he took her dancing. He kept up his campaign for ten months, and at the end of that time, they were married. What you may not know about all this, however, is that even today Cornel loves to see Pat in a black velvet suit. You see, he's sentimental. He likes to relive things like that: Pat in a black suit coming toward him out of nowhere. He remembers many things about that first year he knew Pat; he likes remembering them. He particularly enjoys reliving them. For instance, they used to go to the Lobster Restaurant on FortyFifth Street for a lobster dinner. Recently, when they went back to New York, they raced for that same little restaurant. Yes, he's a sentimentalist. He remembers 'birthdays and Valentine's days, Easters. Pat loves candy, so he always gives her candy on Easter. If she adored stuffed, furry bunnies, he'd see to it she received stuffed, furry bunnies. They both wear matching wedding bands. Often, unconsciously, Cornel twists his around his finger. Perhaps he's remembering the little dime store ring Pat wore for so many years, until they could afford the rings they wear today. They like to feel they are married. He would even like their careers to be linked. One of his most cherished dreams is for them to do a play together again. Pat is a very fine actress. She and Cornel did several plays together back in the old days in New York. Yet everyone who knows them realizes she wanted Cornel to get started in his movie career before she got started in hers. Fate played along with them. Just before they came out to Hollywood, Pat was very ill. When they arrived, she couldn't have accepted a contract even if she had wanted to, although many were offered to her. Then they had Wendy, who needed her rnommie with her while she was so young. Wendy is three now and has an excellent governess, so that's why Pat is taking up her career again. But does Cornel have the usual Hollywood-husband objections to Pat's career? He most definitely does not. He's prouder of her than 20th Century-Fox, and that's being proud in the grand manner. He will tell you that her test, the goodbye scene from "You Came Along," was one of the finest tests ever to be made in Hollywood. He will tell you that people are always comparing her to the late Jeanne Eagels. He will tell you she is beautiful. He's terrifically proud of her all the time, no matter how she's dressed or where they are. It gives him great joy to know she can dress exquisitely now. 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