Screenland Plus TV-Land (Jul 1959 - May 1960)

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SHIRLEY MACLAINE continued Though the absence of her husband is painful, Shirleyfinds consolation in her daughter, Steffi, a miniature of herself SHIRLEY understands Beatniks, but doesn't "dig" them. "To me the most wonderful thing we possess is the gift of being alive.' CLOWNING is as much a part of Shirley's make-up as freckles. "Steve and Steffi — they're my real life," Shirley says simply. Yet, during the last two years, Steve has been mainly in Japan producing documentary films while Shirley has been in Hollywood. In many ways, it's a marriage like Deborah Kerr and Tony Bartley's which floundered because of career separation, but Shirley believes in her heart that her marriage will survive. "Mixing marriage and career," she says, "is like mixing oil with water, but Steve and I think it is worth working for — a happy and steadfast life together. "Whenever Steve returns to Tokyo for another long stay, the Hollywood prophets of marriage doom set off the alarm again that we're having trouble," Shirley sighed. "They keep saying we're headed for divorce and I keep yelling my head off, 'No, no, no.' Really, as long as Steve and I know everything is perfectly all right between us, what does it matter how much they gossip?" What matters is that Shirley and Steve know that their careers — not their hearts — are apart. She's known where her heart belongs ever since a day in early 1954 when, Shirley giggles, "I crossed the street for a ginger ale between the