Screenland (Nov 1949-Oct 1950)

better, not only for her husband, but for her child as well that Ingrid has decided to take the happiness that has come to her. They feel that if she had returned to her husband and child from a sense of duty, as so many insist that she should, that none of them would have gained anything by it, since martyrs never make anyone happy. And yet Ingrid might very well return to her husband, not from a sense of duty, but because she wants to. She has shown herself to be a woman who follows her heart. And a heart doesn't follow a single path. It runs and it stumbles, it can follow a straight course for years and then take an unpredictable detour as Ingrid's has already done. So what is there to prevent its taking another detour back to the safe, straight course it followed so long? Of course, that doesn't seem likely at this present time, this time of bitterness, of mutual reproaches and reported bargaining for the divorce she seems so determined to get. There has been so much acrimony, with Ingrid's lawyers making charges and Dr. Lindstrom's attorneys answering with counter-charges. It isn't at all like the casual, "We'll always be friends" partings that have become practically the standard procedure in modern divorces. Yet the very violence of the Lindstroms' pre-divorce tempest suggests that they still have feeling for each other. It's so easy to be poised, to be completely fair when people are indifferent to each other, but when an emotional attachment still exists it's a different matter. No quarrels are as intensely bitter as lovers' quarrels and there is just a chance that this public airing of their differences might result in a better understanding between them. Until she met Rossellini, Ingrid's life had been free of serious complications. Any struggles she has known are the usual ones that precede any successful career. But emotional conflicts are different and the way people take them determines their stature as human beings. Some people are overwhelmed by them, others grow stronger. Yet a person who hasn't experienced emotional disturbances loses more than is gained by an uncomplicated existence. There isn't any doubt that whatever happens to Ingrid she will come out of this experience a warmer, more responsive human being. Happiest Girl In Hollywood Continued from page 43 support her only child. Colleen, nicknamed "Coke" for what reason she can't remember, went to school in her home town, later in Pasadena and finally to Hollywood High where she first became interested in dramatics and had roles in several plays. Meanwhile, she worked in a bakery, a greeting card factory and as a baby sitter to help with family finances. She was 15, waiting on a comer of Sixth and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles for a girl friend, when she was offered a television tryout. It was at a subsequent video rehearsal that a Warner Brothers talent scout saw her and offered her a screen test. After minor roles in "Janie" and other pictures her option was dropped with the explanation that she was too old for kid roles and too young for adult ones. Colleen can laugh about it now, but at the time the situation was extremely unfunny. Resolutely she pushed the idea of a film career right out of her mind and determined to get a college education, " ith the ambition of teaching. She chose Brigham Young University in Utah because she had met several boys and girls in high school who were Mormons and whose ideals she admired. It was during her sophomore year that a 20th Century-Fox talent scout, Ivan Kahn, saw a cover girl picture of her, wrote and asked if she would like a screen lest. She refu.sed! She told herself she liad had quite enough of movies. Came another letter saying that if she ever changed her mind, would she write? She ignored the .second communication until just before Christmas vacation when her funds were running low; then .she wrote and asked for the test. Her first assignment at 20th, after signing her contract in January 1947, was to go to the Actors Laboratory Theatre for dramatic training. She was terrified that would lead to "sitting around," but within two weeks was given an introductory role in "Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay." Her performance, though brief, so impressed her bosses that Colleen was promptly announced for the leading role in "Green Grass Of Wyoming." She was, quite understandably, ecstatic. She studied, trained, worked her heart out. But fate dealt her another slapdown. Because of the need for a box-office "name," the lead was taken from Colleen, before the picture was started, and given to Peggy Cummins — who, incidentally, not long before had lost the role of Amber to Linda Darnell. "Disappointed? Of course I was! Who wouldn't be!" Colleen now recalls. "But I knew that there's a plan for each of our lives and I had faith in the law of compensation. Not much later I had mine with a very dramatic role in 'Walls Of Jericho.' " Last year Colleen was cast in "Chicken Every Sunday," continued her studies with studio dramatic coaches, and then a few months ago came her Big Break. "Front And Center" with Dan Dailey. Her first day's work on "Front And Center" was a dilly, for it brought her first screen kiss with it. "I think there must be a bunch of pixies in production departments who so often .set up big love scenes between stars who scarcely know each other for the first day they work together," giggles Colleen. "Or else they do it for the benefit of the publicity boys. Anyway, there PSORIASIS Now treated with internal medication For several years a number of doctors have reported amazing success in treating Psoriasis with LIPAN — a new medical wonder taken internally. 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