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.
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