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On location in New Mexico for their co-starring picture, "Four Faces West," for EnterpriseUnited Artists, Joel and Frances Dee McCrea are right at home— they're real ranchers themselves, can take the rugged life in their stride. In the film, Joel plays a cowboy turned bank bandit, in love with Frances in the role of a railroad nurse, left.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. AND MRS. .
JOEL McCREA
SO YOU'RE teaming up in a new picture. I think that's a fine idea. Why aren't there more Mister and Missus teams in the movies, anyway?
Don't tell me. It's all too plain. After proudly announcing to customers that Mr. and Mrs. Star would soon be seen at the local theater in "Always in Love/' it might
be embarrassing to the exhibitor to have to change it to read: Mr. Star and his Ex in "Not Any More."
But in your case, I'm not even keeping my fingers crossed. Married fourteen years, parents of two swell sons, you seem to have licked the Hollywood marriage jinx. Perhaps because you, Joel, never tried to hold the Little Woman in the home, but let her make a movie whenever she wanted to. And you, Frances, who once said you'd never, never live on any old ranch, not you, gave in and got to Jove it. It could also be that you're two pretty nice, down-to-earth people, who haven't let Joel's considerable fortune and screen success spoil you. It might be fun, at that, to see
Cowboy talking to his horse is an old story. When horse talks to cowboy, that's news. Right above, Charles Bickford, who plays a U. S. Marshal on Joel's trail in the film, gives him a helping hand after the day's work.
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other happily (at this writing) married couples make an occasional movie together. Let's see, now: Gene and Betsy Blair Kelly, for example; Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Grable and Harry James, Dick and June Ally son Powell, Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond, Larry Parks and Betty Garrett, Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell — hey, what am I saying? That's a long list, isn't it? Maybe you McCreas are pioneering a New Trend and don't even know it. Well, that's okay with all us fans — just so you don't ever let us down.