Screenland (Jul-Dec 1948)

Photo by Len Weissman Wil.iam Lundigan and his wife spur their favorite nine to victory at Hollywood Ball Park. to do the play. Of course, there was the question of finishing my term at school and of graduation." So Gloria went home to tell her mother the news. Running into the house, she exclaimed, "Mother, we're leaving for San Francisco tonight! Here are the train tickets!" Her mother listened to Gloria's story and simply said, "Ridiculous!" But Gloria went right on talking. "In San Francisco. I understudied and learned not one part but twelve," Gloria went on, talking at lightning-like speed. "Yet I wanted to play only one part — the ingenue lead. The girl who was playing it was in love with the stage manager and missed cues since her mind wasn't on her art. I finally asked the producer to give me a chance to play it. He refused point blank, telling me he had no one else who could step into any one of twelve parts. Finally I asked the director if he'd rehearse me in the part. He agreed, and I stayed up until five in the morning studying. After I had rehearsed the next afternoon, the director said, 'You're just the girl for this role!' But the producer — again — played the Rock of Gibraltar. "When we got to Chicago, the girl was still making the same mistakes. And a few more. So I was finally called in one morning and asked to play the part that matinee. I did it — and got a run of the show contract as a result." From that play, Gloria went in as Miriam Hopkins' understudy in "Skin of Our Teeth" and then into the lead in "Stardust" and "The Highland Fling." Gloria had banked a lot on the latter show, so she was pretty discouraged when it flopped opening night. But a girl friend of hers was completely elated. "Guess who's interested in you?" she asked Gloria. Flatly: "Who?" "Louis B. Mayer. He saw the show and liked you." Then Yic Orsatti. the agent, came to Gloria. Acting for Mayer, he asked her ■ to make a test. But Gloria didn't jump through any hoop. Her old indifference asserted itself. She'd have no part of a test made in the east since she knew it wouldn't show her at her best. So Or satti brought her to MGM under contract— and without a test. "Since we're delving into the history of Gloria Grahame so thoroughly," Gloria commented, "I'd like to get one thing straight — and that's about my marriage to Stanley Clements. So much has appeared in the newspapers of late, things that have made me look as though I didn't know my own mind. Gossip" columns here in Hollywood too have made me out to be a girl who left her husband, went back to him, left him again, ad nauseam. Everyone seems to want to arrange my life for me. The facts are this — I am getting a divorce, and there has never been any serious thought as far as I'm concerned of any reconciliation. "My career was in no way responsible for the break-up of my marriage, either. It was simply a case of two people who could never be compatible. The premise of the whole thing was wrong to begin with. It was an impulsive, hasty, wartime marriage. When Stanley was finally able to come home after the war, we found we'd no interests in common. It's the old, old story told a hundred times these last few years. It would have had no different ending, however, I'm sure, if we'd never been separated a moment from our wedding on. "My experience hasn't embittered me at all about marriage. I shall certainly marry again, but I shall profit by my mistakes the next time." In the meantime, since her divorce from Stanley Clements, Gloria has married Nicholas Ray. director of RKO's "The Long Denial." And that's the complete picture of one Gloria Grahame Hollward, her real name. A normal girl who by sheer determination has managed to overcome a selfconsciousness which could have sent her into a nose dive instead of zooming up the ladder as she is now! PULVEX POWDER CS33B9L WITH 5% DDT ... for dogs. Kills fleas and' lice quick. 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