TV Guide (March 5, 1954)

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the daughters moves in with her mother. When Thomas comes home, his wife moves the daughter out again, saying, “We must make room for Daddy.” A realist in many ways, Thomas de¬ cided he would play the show straight. “If it’s my own present-day career we’re basing this thing on,” he says, “why try to hoke it up with a lot of stuff about the struggling young family? I’ve passed the struggling stage. I’m doing all right with the money. Okay. So we’ll play it that way-.” He was even more realistic when it came to coaching Jean Hagen, who plays his wife. He met her for the first time just seven days before the pilot film was to be shot and was wor¬ ried about their ability to get the husband-and-wife idea across to an audience on such short acquaintance. On that first day, he took her aside and laid it on the line to her. “Jean, look,” he began. “Get this straight. I am not making a pass at you. But for the next seven days you and I are gonna be as close together as it’s pos¬ sible to get. I want you to sit on my lap when we’re not actually rehears¬ ing. We’re going to have lunch to¬ gether every day. We’re going to drink out of the same cup. You’re go¬ ing to follow me around like a puppy. I want you to get used to my scent, and I’m going to get used to yours. This is going to be a lot tougher for you than it is for me, but that’s the way it’s gotta be if we’re gonna make this thing sing.” Jean understood him perfectly, and the results, obviously, have paid off. On the screen, they look as though they’d been married for years—on the happy side of the ledger. Thomas also is happily married off the screen, he and his wife Rosemary being the parents of three children and the owners of a comfortable mid- Beverly Hills home complete with pool. The children—Margaret, 16, Ter¬ esa, 12, and Tony, 5—already are en¬ shrined on the show by forming the name of their father’s own company, Marterto Productions. Home permanently now, Thomas is really content for the first time in years. Even with television—which he once said was strictly for idiots. “So I was an idiot myself,” he admits. “So I was wrong. That’s a crime?” Real family.- Danny, Margaret, 16; Teresa, 12; Tony, 5, and wife Rosemary enjoy pool.