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"THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1953.
MY LIFE STORY I am broke but
HOW I GOT TO HOLLYWOOD
PETITE blonde I am a Roman Catholic, Greta with green eyes came is a Protestant. We arranged to into my life during get married at a little Methodist chapel round the comer from my first real my apartment. I got a licence theatrical tour and, thank and the tickets for the ball game
she goodness,
has been and off we went to the Yankee Stadium. On the way back, at
there ever since,
5.30 that Saturday afternoon we
Greta Konen, a Finnish- sipped into the chapel with our Born girl who
to friends, and Greta America as a child, dressed married.
went
and 1 were
Katherine Cornell's hair No Honeymoon for the stage and ran her tiny fingers through mina-
1 couried her in Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, in the chilly cold of Detroit and in the genial warmth of San Francisco, and a year later I married her in New York after watching a baseball game nt the Yankee Stadium.
LATER
that evening we celebrated at a local hotel
I got married
W
flopped, but that and I grimmed foolishly as np best actors of all me. Charlie was memorable almighty yell ripped the air. As is one of the immoriats, because there I the Kurtspenker went υπ But today my favourlie mot Max Rein- "Mother and son Bra doing actors are Spencer Tracy inct hardt, the fam- well. ... I brake 1000 Laurenco Olivier among the ous German pro- "Yippee," I yelled. "Yippee, men and Greta Garbo und ducen then at boys, that's it. "The Yankees Ingrid Bergman among the end of his have got another pitcher."-
women. carcer This
with
old man
white hair and
tho
Of all the beautiful and
QLS
genius. of the And I wondered why those talented screen actresses I have stogo. a quiet other fellows looked sour,
played opposite, 1 rate Ingrit In a few minutes I saw Grela Bergman the top. She has de- artistic dils... Jittle beg- tormination and compelling fen- and the wrinkled
The newest to cipline.
41 tures
gar that was told me:
And Ava Gardner is the most of Peck. Lo The difference bear the namo between
wag very sweet for both of us unspoiled actress. She has the our selves
most down-to-earth attitude to in the in that moment.
Now, of course, we also have have ever encountered in a pro- herself and her work that I theatre and those outside is Steven and Carey, By the time that they stop- I get back to Holylwood I want fession where a little vanity is
see the little fellow swim- eastly allowed. playing
Ingrid ming. All we Pecks
came to they
my rescue stop-
when we were making "Spell- being when we're four.
One of the scenes
ped
children.
I
all
our lives." Greta and rented Д little stucco house on the side of a hill
1
In Hollywood. It
when the show was over. with a sleak dinner for the eight
or ten of us including Greta's. brother, and some actor friends.
Greta I think
paid for the "breakfast" since she was the
che breakin
Just then. wage-earner There was
was no honeymoon. wax broke.
ke. Greta and I moved was into my fint on East 39th Street: meant carrying a
a suitcase It just meant Good Partners across from her brother's apart-
We paid
a wock for inent. NOWADAYS, which we relax
bedroom, a
a living room, and a uur sprawling, com- 4 fortable home in Hollywood, Kitchenette, and a bath. But to with such good friends round us both of us it was very much us the Richard Widmarks, the home. There we dreamed of the Willum Wylers, Mel Ferrer, and future, but neither of us conjured of what really did visions Dorothy McGuire, we laugh over up
$14
those dear days of not so long store all this I had played
ago when I used to count the cents in my pockets and Greta second lead with the late Jane was the only breadwinner in Cowl in a show which was sup- the family.
Greta describes ourselves as a
wo
22
to
con swim
We Which reminds me that dur- bound." continuo playing ing the filming of my recent showed a short take of the two production "Roman Holiday I of us starting off on a ski run, I had never wora skis in my life had an unexpected swim in the
Tiber. I was standing on the but I wouldn't admit. So with of the the skis fastened on and the fee broad gun-wale of one
for some
me picks or whatever you call them In my hands I stumbled to the an in extra accidentally collided with top or an awful looking slide.
Father Tiber Ingrid must have noticed
"Have
barges used al night
of the river seenes
and me. In I went.
was nil pink and white had a sinail gar-
when
was mighty cold at that time of clumsiness.
"GREGORY
He telephoned my agent who has since made a
the name as
impresario 01 and "Call Me "South Pacifle" Madam," etc. "What do you Peek?" want for this fellow asked San.
First Contract
my
PECK
den. settled down to film the year, and I didn't enjoy the
I
A
work and discovered that it was dip. difficult. I had a lot to learn. I in my wus not very secure technique on the stage either.
I found out that the Ilms you have to think your
ов
Mexican food and tequila, the learned then what is meant by books, while ho operated from intentions; on the stage you think
A
Our
Strangest Thing
ment.
In A week's
that I
a
re
swam back to the barge my not-so-humouriess producer bawled: "That isn't necessary,
it isn't the script-and Greg: look at your make-upl“
in either on
the
· "WREST
my ever
ski-ed before, Greg? she asked.
I confessed I hadn't. "I thought not," said Ingrid, wrinkling expressive face,
Then
sho
addressed the technicians: "Look, pile mattresses over there
no, just u Hittio neares that'll do."
Lost Control THE cameras
the
whirred, assistant producer called out "start acling," and Ingrid' and I moved off into a glorious skl-run... for 20 yards. The moment we were camera's range. I lost control and Ingrid. But
But her hotel ping was excellent. I up on top of the mattresses, ond Bound and humiliated. Ingrid, who is an expert ski-er. circled the mattresses laughing. "Greg, you do look funny," she
safe
lo come to town. It Sam Goldwyn saw me in one Before it reached New of my Broadway plays when I "Jigger and Eoon" partnership, York and it wasn't the fault of was unknown. which is quite unexplainable It that fine actress Jane Cow!,
The show was so bad that only you don't know Greta and
me.
people turned up one night in Greta is definitely the "jigger," so obviously the lazy one theatre that held 1,400.
and all I can
won't The leading man-i am the "goon," say is that it has worked admir- mention names-refused to go on nbly for ten years. I suppose it before such a miserable audience, is something on the lines of but Miss Cowl, grand trouper
↑ ELAND HAYWARD, opposites making good partners. thut she was, said: "I don't care
agent, didn't know that I But
do agree on many if there is only one person out
existed. I was just a name and things. We both like children, there. I'll play."
on his New York I a number sunshine,
We played all right," and rseback riding,
My Hobby spirit distilled from the native an actor's responsibility to his his Hollywood headquarters.
I'll call you back,"
and show your intentions, FOR TULM-MAKING is my hobby sald. he said, And I learned the Mexican cactus,
friends audience.
and we did not like the hot, spiced Mexican very valuable lesson that great and then he got busy with his work calls for more clear think as well as my job, and I Thank goodness the shot was
Ing and honest feeling than does shot thousands of feet of flim food and tequila also, which is artists do not display tempera, New York office and found out the stage. Notice that there are when I was in Rome for show need to do it again.
In the ten years I have been in was en his books,
on my private pictures I have played with a handy when we have a party.
When he called Sam again he no leading people on films who ing back home asked Most Critical
"What
nre "hams." On the stage there screen. "Roman Holiday" cautiously
also. a Pock family holiday
tow child artists, but I never with feel happy with them. and Sam said; are.
in front of you offering?"
On the screen more than on Greta and the kids came -thousand BROAD, I like the wine of THE most critical week in my
They mouth their and we stayed the camera. the country; champagne in life came just about this "Make it thus thousand die siege, if you grimace it looks me to Europe, France (laced with Guinness in time. 1
Mind as big as a house. was playing in "The Sam agreed.
outside Rome. When I wasn't and they go through the England). Pernod, etc; in Britain Morning Star, which opened in
but they are too young I signed my first contract for there are people like Olivier who lovely old farmhouse just lines as they have been tausta
set 1 photographed motions, (opologies to Scotland and Philadelphia, and the critics four pictures with R. K. O. and are just as efficient Ireland)
under- I prefer gin or beer. "panned" ne as well as the they threw in a 5,000 dollars medium. In a sentence: "screen Home and the Peck family with to have stored up experiences. But only in moderation. I am show.
Halal bonus on the spot. When i got acting is behaving stage acting movie and still cameras. I carry They are too young to
a battery of cameras
I know that stand their parts. a heavy drinker.
around there may be exceptions but I time we were back to Greta with the cheque is 'ucting".".
with me. Greio started me off on think it has been proved time When 1 am
lm-making I opening on Broadway. My first we danced a វាន all over, our drink only soft drinks during the Broadway show. My big chance small apartment.
this hobby to get me to relax.
At home I have a 16mm. pro- and time again that young working day and relax alightly was coming, and it looked from "It's a honeymoon, Greta," 1
Jector for own amateur prodigies do not make a success at night. Quite recently I have the critics notices that I was shouted, and we had a grand
films and a 35mm. Job for the as adult actors, given up cigarettes, temporarily,' destin, that vital week I went chose Arizona and, six months or acting. It was on July 22 nine professional films. Usually I
Felt Old.... because I found I was smoking.
CEVENTEEN or eighteen is an automatically, which
A year doesn't over my part 16 hours a day after our wedding, we had our years ago. I had been nervously hire them for our parties, and
or nine times with Greta, which, make sense.
with three honeymoon in desert surround- pacing
white-enamelled eight
and Islip out to the
✪ ideal age to begin to learn Our wedding
was quite the hours on the stage, left mc.only
Back Inn, waiting room of a Hollywood Grela
to be an actor. local cinema and pay our dol- is at the Camel
They were maternity hospital. Other pain- strangest thing. One day while four hours to sleep.
Phoenix, Arizona.
lars like anyone else. hands in Call- I must have read the play 100 three idyllic weeks we swam, racked fathers were there too.
with My Favourites with Greta
a great little The ashtrays were filled sliting rode-Greta is
cigarettes. And
LM actors rarely possess to get married as soon as I-made-patiently-in-a-corner-with-the-horsewoman-and square danced; halt-smoked a Broadway success. Neither of script, correcting me, criticising went for midnight horseback then it happened.
copies of their own films. us thought about Hollywood.
maternity hospital. had
I couldn't place him until he my volca and
my movements, picnics in the desert and romped
They are not easy to get. But I the delivery theatre wired to My first Broadway play was praising me sometimes. I could like a couple of kids.
the public address system. The did masinge
three of reminded me that he had played to get Dop,
but although I was not have found anyone else with Lot To Learn
in the waiting room mine, "Twelve o'clock. High," in one of my films as a boy of had to earn broke and Greta
speaker patience and understanding to
tune la our crackled, and a brisk pleasent "The Valley of Decision, and 11. I began to feel old very enough to keep us both, we de stick it out as she did.
Greta On the first
voice
The Keys had
"Mr. Peck
of the Kingdom," Bald: We married life cided make it anyway.
to
So I was a brick.
Little Greta calling Mr Peck... I stood and when Greta wants to bring a few friends rang up
onc The play went on in Broadway, money worries.
down to earth she puts feet
sweating, watching me Saturday
apart, said: "Look, boys It folded in four weeks but I was with her Scandinavian features,
infernal instru- them on and we sit and pick
Think and girls, I've got some tickets praised by the critics. I had while checkbones, widely-spaced that damned
wanted to I
shout out the blts that I I could for the ball
at the Yankee mude my mark. game
eyes, peppy and vivacious, came ment.
"Come on, come on.
do better today. We call the Stadium....Oh, and afterwards I wasn't
gloriously to life. She forgot to long looking for n Н
The speaker went on: "Mr films our museum pieces. I are
hairdresser except when My next Broadway be a, Greta and
As Д boy-don't laugh, I play was "The Willow and 1" she brushed back my unruly Peck, your son wants to speak
and my
mean it-my Alm davourites face, And that was that. There which lasted for five weeks, mop after a vigorous gallop in to you"
Rin Tin Tin and, Of drawn into the haggard, craggy were was no mention of the Peck Again the play flopped, but the desert.
Back in New York I did lines of Abraham Lincoln more course, Charlie Chaplin. I still welding in the Times. The again the critics were kind to
Which also that ever it had been, relaxed, consider Rin Tin Tin one of the ret
play. on me. I began to
movie another newspaper boys hadn't got 10.Peck then.
offers.
we were
forniased, and we agreed times,
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·
Happiest Day
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had nothing to do with films
This
the
my
Recently, in Hollywood, I bumped into a strapping young Air Force officer who greeted me with "Nice to see you again M Peck."
suddenly.
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PARIS
THE
NEWSLETTER....from
SAM
WHITE
PART
PICASSOS
• At 72, Pablo is in love again
Emperor
the
FOOLPROOF
Haile Selassie, Paris.
It was all good old-fashioned mained in the background, little, to FTER seven years of known in Faris, and seemingly General de Gaulle returned to stock anti-British. melodrama of
turn-of-the-century vintage.. her Paris to give one of his remark- life together, painter entirely occupied with
children. It is only this year Pablo Picasso and 32- that the alim and beautiful able Press conferences.' year-old Francoise Gilot, brunette became a distinct and
These conferences are more well-known personality. have separated.
In two exhibitions in Paris in the nature of adulatory mass CONGRATULATIONS to a Paris cinema which has Reason: At 72, the tem- this year she showed herself an meetings than serious question
found a way of dealing with pestuous Picasso has fallen able painter. In a series of and answer bouts with women who wear hats during. in love again.
stage designs
for Paris ballet Press. First, de Gaulle's "shadow performances, It flashes a notice cabinet" occupy the front seats on the screen: "Elderly ladies is living performances the established a a brilliant stage in his Left Bank studio while reputation as
designer.
at the conference, along with may keep their hats on if they Francoiso
their two
Life with Picasso could not members of the Government so desire," children, Cloudo (0) and
which de Gaulle denounces. V- Paloma (4), are staying in his have been easy,
QUOTES Said a friend: "Picasso chaos personified. His mooda Then there is a solid body of alternate between melancholla, followers who occupy most of MLLE LOUISE DE VILLE. In which he detests everything, the seating accommodation and including himself and his work,
At present Picasso
Paris flat
and
MORIN: "A woman. ̈ who
a.layer."
The news has caused con- sternation in Vallauris, the Riviera pottery villago where Picasso lives most of the year. and exaltation, As for his break out into frequent, cheers plays canasta, obviously hasn't
There his fame has made the
views, they are a torrent of and applause. village into major tourist
contradictiont." Mar attraction; his interest has ro- But Francolso has a different the general's remarks alter Minister of the Interior M. vived its anefont pottery works view. She said recently: To nate between mock self-pity and tarinand Deplat: Only Com and made it into a flourishing listen to him and to work by expressions of national fervour murists and sexual perverts Industry.
his side is like undergoing a This time: his speech fairly WILL Picasso
Ive continue to
glorious liberating experience, crackled" about "British dupli- posa the European Army at. Vallauris after his separation He the most broadminded city and cunning." from Francouze The villagers and tolerant man imaginable; can, berenssured Picamo will even when giving advice, to me returva to live among them on my painting, he does to row was to allow France to become to an invitation to attend a British plot, apparently... Somerset Maugham, #replying' while Francoise remains In fuctantly, as though hating the absorbed in the European Army Jiterary conference Ini Partat Paris
The Picasso's ends,” who
"The
Pian
'news has", saddēnai, Idea, that- he should. Inquance while, she' niched her "Empire. Agrood, but it to bd my last
them a happy and devoted couple
For the greater
life together the wife has
me in any way Chier villains in the place were appearance in public. Theya found 200
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