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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 Hit Pa-
rade.” They married in 1957 and settled down to a Man-
hattan life, which was fine until their second child, Mat-
thew, was bom 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."
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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
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Even if you do not win, you will get a pro-
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Entries for March contest must be in before
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Pursuing ths Impossible
Isabel Smith had not only met challenges which would
have swamped most people, but she had deliberately
created new ones: the determination to marry, to have •
a home, and to live as a member of the normal world.
“Impossible,” they had said, and now she had done it.
Perhaps that is where her story should end, but her
goals had not been reached. There was still the little house
“under the mountains.” Neither of them had a cent, and
Courtney, because of his long illness, was earning only
enough to cover their day-to-day expenses in a Saranac
Lake boardinghouse. Isabel was obliged to rest a good
part of each day. The “little house” seemed very far away.
It was at that point that she decided to write her au-
tobiography. "That’s something I can do, lying down or
sitting up,” she said. “For years I’ve been wanting to say-
thanks for all the good things life has brought me."
Her book. Wish I Might, was published in 1955. and
from its royalties the “little house under the mountains”
materialized. How rightfully proud she was of that house!
On two sides were the evergreen forests which she had
watched so long from her sanitarium bed. Framed in its
picture window were the mountains, gray-green, majestic.
Courtney had built feeding stations for birds all around
the house. Two years later, on Jan. 19, 1958, Isabel fed
her birds, re-entered her house, and died.
Tragic? Yes, in a way, and yet in a way not, for Isabel
Smith had achieved everyhing she had set out to achieve
30 years before when the odds were 1,000 to 1 against her.
An editorial which appeared the following day in the
Adirondack Enterprise contained this paragraph:
“Isabel Smith’s life was a series of triumphs the
triumph of victory, however temporary, over a dreadful
disease; the triumph of belated love and marriage; the
triumph of building that house in the woods which she
had so long cherished."
And it might have added: the triumph of giving so
bounteously when, to all outward appearances, she had
so little to give.
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When the atomic bomb fell at Hiroshima, she regarded
it as her particular challenge and took up the study of
atomic energy with the help of a young physicist, who
was also a patient at the sanitarium. Impressed by the
importance of bringing to the people of Saranac Lake
a greater understanding of this new force and the prob-
lems that it raised, she organized a meeting in the town
hall and arranged for the speakers.
During the same year, to the consternation of Dr. Tru-
deau and his associates, Isabel fell in love with a gentle,
kindly man who had himself been through the sanitarium.
The apprehensive doctors finally concluded that since,
quite obviously, she could never marry, she was at least
fortunate to know love. But they underestimated the in-
ner drive of their patient.
Even at- her lowest ebb, penniless and helpless. Isabel
had talked to me about the day when she would marry
Courtney and have a little house of her own “under the
mountains." At the time, I had put this down to wish-
dreaming. Now I was not so sure.
Whether it was love or the appearance of the new “won-
der drugs” or a combination of both, Isabel suddenly
began to improve, and on July 2, 1948, on the arm of her
anxious but ever-loyal Dr. Trudeau, she walked slowly
but with radiant confidence down the aisle of the tiny
sanitarium chapel to be wed.
If one has lived a long and full life, it is usually dif-
ficult to say with certainty what the most inspiring mo-
ment has been, but I am very sure that in my case this
was it.
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ANE OF THE reasons Lee misses the East is because
Uu 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 is a compliment!” Lee replied emphatically.
"They’re comparing somebody with me—poor girt”
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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