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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1963)
MOVIES It's the Collerans' private life that disturbs people who like their movie stars conveniently pigeonholed. Although she has yet to play the role of a happy wife, ' that's the characterization she has stuck gossips with since they first probed her well-shielded home life. Last year, in desperation, they tried to link her with Peter Lawford, who had costarred with her on television, but before the whisper could get its wind up, the Col lerans were happily busy puttering about a new house they'd just bought in Los Angeles. "The house has a lot of crazy angles," says Lee, with a lack of restraint she rarely displays off-camera. "It's furnished mostly in children's toys and has a lot of prop erty two and a half acres, and all for us." The Collerans confess to being Easterners, however. They met in 1955 while Lee, once a hopeful dance student, was still dizzy with her first tv success and Bill was earn ing a reputation as the inventive director of "The Kit Pa rade." They married in 1957 and settled down to a Man hattan life, which was fine until their second child, Mat thew, was born almost two years ago. "Our roots weren't so strong that we couldn't pull them up for the prospect of seeing Katherine and Matt out in the sun all year round," says Lee. Even location shooting does not usually separate the Collerans. While making Columbia's suspense film, "The Running Man," all four were in Spain, although not al ways enjoying it "Poor Matt had a good dose of the usual traveler's illness, and for a while we were con cerned. While the children are young, though, we want them with us as much as possible. We're people who can settle anywhere. I remember when we went on to Ireland, I watched Bill and Kathy walking down the street in tweeds and caps, and I thought: a tourist would take a photo of them as typical Dubliners." One OP THE reasons Lee misses the East is because her parents, whom she is very close to, still live there. Her father, Frank, is a department-store owner in Quincy, Mass., and Lee visits him and his second wife on holidays. Lee's mother resumed her career as a radio actress in New York when her daughter was 16. Actually, Lee's only major problem is the fact that people, discouraged by the evenness of her life, try to inflict on her the more dramatic characteristics of other stars. Once, for example, a press agent erroneously re ported that Lee occupied the former apartment of Marilyn Monroe and tried to emulate the then-rising star. Years later, when Marilyn held up production on "Something's Got to Give" just before her death, the studio searched for a replacement. It picked Lee, and the, Lana Turner comparison now became a Marilyn Monroe comparison. Ironically, when hearing of the decision, Marilyn's friends used almost the identical words Lana had used four years before: "If the role is right for Lee, then it was wrong for Marilyn." The episode ended abruptly with Marilyn's death. Lee reportedly received $100,000 for doing nothing, but today there are indications she' still feels bitter about being used as an innocent pawn in a tragic feud. Still, there is always hope. Not long ago Lee and her husband were standing outside a theater where the tragic love story, "Days of Wine and Roses," was being pre viewed. She was being deluged by compliments on her fine performance when she overheard someone remark: "By the way, have you seen this Tippi Hedren Hitch cock's new star? She reminds me of Lee Remick." "Now that it a compliment!" Lee replied emphatically. 'They're comparing somebody with me poor girl." But it will take a lot more than superficial looks or imaginative press agentry to give Hollywood another actress like Lee Remick. family Weekly, March Iff. 1M TEST YOUR TALENT Awarded Monthly: $535.00 Scholarship in Commercial Art Draw any of the three pictures in pencil but make your drawing a different size from the pictures above. If you win the scholarship prize, you get the complete course in commercial art taught by America's leading home study art school, Art Instruction Schools. You will receive per sonal attention from professional commercial artists in the fields of advertising art, illus trating, cartooning and painting. Even if you do not win, you will get a pro fessional estimate of your talent without cost. Entries for March contest must be in before March 31, 1963. None can be returned. Our students and professional artists are not eligible. Start your drawing now. Mail your entry in right away! A art instruction schools Studio FW 33 SOO South 4th Street. Mlnneepollt IS. Minn. Pleat enter my drawing in your draw-a-kead contest, (nun mm Nunc Occupation As -Apt- City- County- ZT) Accredited by the- Accrediting Commission y ol the Netlonel Home Study Council.
