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though he felt like a "corny tourist" for thinking so. His dream is to travel around the world slowly, but not now for Americans spending money make for more Communists, he believes. Greg Peck is his favorite actor, and his biggest kick in life was getting started in radio. He loves women, money and the profiles his brother-in-law writes for the New Yorker.
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the high forehead to depart, so with a smile and a reminder to give his love to New York, he left. I repeat. It had been a most surprising luncheon for having expected to meet a slack-jawed, dangerously moronic killer, I met a veritable charmer, a gentle-spoken, intelligent man with a most inquiring mind. This actor named Richard Widmark is not only a definite addition to the Hollywood scene, but indeed, charming surprise.
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peace and quiet up here!" she enthused before I could get my foot over the welcome mat. "I hated those cooped-in apartments more than I ever let on. I had terrible insomnia from those cars and busses roaring by on Wilshire Boulevard day and night. I never could get used to them. That's what comes from growing up on a farm. Up here I'm sleeping wonderfully!
"I bought two dollars worth of wood for a fire in the fireplace the other evening, when Howard came over for sort of a preview. (Howard Dufl — you know he and Ava are close friends.) You don't get much wood for two dollars, do you? Then I was just awful to poor Howard. He was sitting on the floor, listening to records, and accidentally upset a can of beer. I mopped it up for half an hour. He felt like a criminal. I hope I never get that emotional about my house again! I've always thought women who hurried around emptying the ashtrays as fast as they were used were bores. I can't let myself love this place too much.
"What do you think of my yellow walls? They're pretty strong now, but when I get my drapes up they'll be toned down. I'm not hiring a decorator. I'm using my own judgment, with a lot of help from Bappie, of course."
Bappie is Beatrice Gardner, Ava's beloved eldest sister who looks after her. When Ava, at seventeen, was signed by MGM as the result of a photograph submitted by her photographer brother-inlaw, the big Gardner family in North Carolina elected Bappie to go along West as chaperone. The nineteen years difference in these sisters' ages has made them almost like mother and daughter, and they have grown even closer since their idolized mother died two years ago.
Bappie steadfastly refuses to move in with Ava, contending adult growth is possible only when one is on his or her own. So Ava is constantly popping in at her sister's apartment for long visits.
Her sister is chief counsel whenever Ava adds to her wardrobe. It features California sweaters and skirts, wool sports dresses and coats. Contrary to what you'd suppose, Ava is so unconcerned with evening gowns she gets by with a minimum of them. And she shuns fashionable cocktail parties so skillfully that when caught the other day she hadn't a thing, as you've often cried yourself, to wear. Bappie had to come to the rescue on a frantic last-minute shopping tour for an afternoon dress to fit that des
perate occasion.
Nothing is more satisfying fun for Ava than Sunday at the Rosenthall's home. Ruth, Jerry's grand wife, swears that Ava fits in so smoothly you'd never in a million years catalog her as a movie star. The holiday always begins with brunch. Jerry, who loves to cook as a hobby, prepares the most tempting dishes Ava can imagine. She believes it's a mighty nice hobby for any man, since she thoroughly enjoys a tasty morsel or two. The gang of intelligent, good-humored, perfectly relaxed friends drift out to play spirited badminton. Our girl is in their midst, and there's nothing languid about her as the running and laughter mount. Later, they inevitably gather around the piano and there is someone bright enough to compose a new song. "Not me," Ava will tell you, regretfully. She usually departs, as she has arrived, alone. She isn't really lonesome, for she has learned one of the hardest lessons about love — that you can't force fate.
You can bump into her at the Van Heflin's, also. It's the one stellar residence she visits frequently, for Ava and Van's wife, Frances, hit it off immediately soon after Ava checked into Hollywood in 1941. Frances had come from the South, too, and she had tried a film career before settling down contentedly with Van. Ava maintains that Frances is the most natural person she has ever known, completely straightforward and dependable under any circumstances.
When she isn't chumming with a housewife such as Frances, Ava is apt to be discussing good books with either brilliant Director Irving Reis or Associate Producer Lester Koenig, a Dartmouth graduate. They aren't handy at MGM. She's made a conscientious effort to meet and interest men of their mental calibre, whereas the average young actress is limited to actors within her own studio walls.
"I've learned a lot from Irving and Lester," she'll admit frankly. "They both have such excellent backgrounds."
Ava, herself, concentrated on a business course in high school. She glimpsed nothing in her future more exciting than a local secretarial job, so she applied her mind then to typing, shorthand and English. A visit with her sister and brother-in-law in New York changed the course of her life.
Last year she took an extension course in literature from the University of California at Los Angeles.
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