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Van isn't, couldn't be, static. He has many plans for movies, stage, TV, radio.
Van liked making "The Prowler." "It's adult, for those who like life in the raw."
"If I base my career on always getting the girl, then I call it a dull existence."
Van Heflin, a stage and movie success for years, still feels he's just getting started
HIS has to do with Van Heflin — a young man with a future. . . . If you're any sort of a moviegoer, you've just done a beautiful doubletake, followed it with a reasonable question along the lines of: What is this? Van Heflin's a movie star. And wasn't he on the legitimate stage with Ina Claire, and with Katie Hepburn in the original "Philadelphia Story," during its two-year run in the theatre? Yes.
Okay (it's your turn again), and what about such film hits as "Johnny Eager" (Van won an Oscar for it), "Presenting Lily Mars," "B. F.'s Daughter," "Act Of Violence" and such? Yes.
Now you move in for the kill, by adding: They were successful movies and personal triumphs — in each case — for Van Heflin; the same whom you dast call a young man with a future. What future does a $150,000-a-film man need ?
Yes and no.
You've been right about everything you've said and everything you've said would seem to knock the futuref orVan thing into a cocked hat — except for one item. Which happens to be, Van himself. . . .
Van, as you'll see, isn't — couldn't be — static. He won't stand still and he's convinced that he's just getting started. He has so much to do (and so much to do it with), that we've only begun to hear from the gentleman from Oklahoma.
When he was interviewed, Van (born Emmet Evan Heflin, in Walters, Oklahoma) was in New York, negotiating for a play. One with a provocative husband-wife theme that would entail some (Please turn to page 72)