The seven deadly sins of Hollywood (1957)

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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF HOLLYWOOD I said, "Then nobody might ever get married." Miss Hayward shrugged as if that might not be too bad an idea either. You can understand her attitude. The break-up of her marriage was more than merely the failure of a human relationship : it was an incidental of the Hollywood success story. One of the causes, you might say, was financial incompatibility. Miss Hayward, born Edythe Marrener, the daughter of a Coney Island barker, used to sell newspapers in the streets of Brooklyn as a child. Then she became Susan Hayward and a success. She also became tough. When she married Jess Barker he was earning 9,850 dollars a year. Her income was more than double his — 26,000 dollars. Later the gap widened. His earnings went down. Hers shot up. By 1950 she was making 200,000 dollars a year. Today her weekly pay packet is said to be 5,000 dollars. I asked why she married Jess Barker, and she said in a voice that had an edge to it like a razor's, "I must have been in love with him. One only sees the qualities one wants to see in someone when one is in love." I said, "And one only sees the qualities one doesn't want to see when one is out of love." "Yes," said Miss Hayward, who was out of love and happy, "that is true." "What are the qualities a husband ought to have?" I enquired academically. She thought carefully and said, "Reliability, tenderness, strength and an equal income." "You are going to have a job finding someone with an income equal to yours. " "No, there are lots of successful businessmen," she said. "Elderly tycoons in soap or something. How dull." "Not the ones I know," she said. 44