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A SECRET!
Jane's husband, Producer Edward Lasker, never sees her in pincurls. She is always glamourous for him.
One of the most important things about being glamourous and attractive, thinks Jane Greer, is not to let anyone — especially the man in your life — know that it takes any doing at all. Never let him see you engaged in any drab routine of housekeeping or beauty care. Pretend your charm is as spontaneous as that of a blossom
"You and I know," she confides, "that it takes time and thought and effort to look sleek and well-groomed, to keep your figure and complexion and hair in order, to run a house smoothly and to give a successful party. But don't let him know it. We have to do these things and do them as well as we can. But just don't make a fuss about it."
Jane admits that she, herself, isn't the least bit domestic. "I was never trained for it or taught anything about it," she says. "And I'm lucky enough to have other people to attend to it for me now while I do another kind of work.
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D keep house these days, and I know what I'd do about it. I'd try not to make 'a production' of it.
"I'd try to get the cooking finished before my husband came home, even though that might take a lot of study of casserole dishes and things that keep hot in the oven. I'd finish the drudgery, rush to put on fresh make-up and a pretty housecoat before he arrived. And I'd never, never admit that I'd 'slaved over a hot stove' to whip up that cake or to cook that roast! I'd pretend that pixie creatures came out of the woodwork and did every bit of it.
"I'd let him think the pixie creatures kept the house tidy, too, and washed all those windows. If a woman keeps on talking about drudgery and household routines, about drab routines, then her husband will begin to associate her with (continued on pace 67)
Jane, now in "Desperate Search" with Howard Keel, says that sex appeal boils down to being mysterious.
To look at Jane, here talking to Van Heflin, you'd never imagine her beauty required any drab routine.