Most Stars Of Screen Lead Very Quiet Home Lives

Chronicle (Levin), 7 August 1948, Page 6

Most Stars Of Screen Lead Very Quiet Home Lives

Les. M.

Murphy)

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„ WELLINGTON, August 7. » Studio leaders say they regret the passing of the carnival erain Hollywood's history. But secretly most executives are glad that life has become a little quieter, since scandals seemed an inevitable part of the stunt-age. . *

So now Joan Crawford hurries home-at nights to read the comics to her youngsters, eight-year-ol'd Christina and four - year - old Christopher. ' Gregory Peck, who has not been seen in a night club for months, digs paths through the five-acre place he bought recently. Jeanne Craine turned her lion, which was getting too playful for the safety of neighbpurs, over to a zoo and is now busy ironing her husband's shirts, etc. \ Henry Fonda spen'ds his weekends making composts and wi.i regale any listener by the hour with arguments in favour of the New Zealand method. Irene Dunne's daughter has reached the algebra gtage and brings her problems home, much to the consternation of her mother, who never could figure out why Y equals X. More than 100 stars and feature players now are engaged in their spare hours in pursuit of art. On any typical set, the players are engaged during off hours in the quiet things that people spend their evenings 'doing in any community. Linda Darnell quits making love to Cornel Wilde at 6 p.m. on the dot to rush home and edit the movies she filmed on her European trip. Cornel Wilde himself gets home in time to set out plants in the garden or clean tiie swimming •pool. Anne Baxter, without household help cooks the evening meal for husband John Hodiak. Both are following stA'ict diets, must rise early for their picture chores, and it is early to bed.

The off-stage life of the oncet tempestuous Errol Flynn is some-j thing of a revelation. Flynn was: very much the centre of news over a long period, but today he . is a home body. Most stars, who possess college degrees, realise their moral responsibilities. Their own personal happiness rests on the common, ordihary little pleasures of j life. , ! So it is that Clark Gable g~es fishing and hunting, Betty Grable finds too little time for horse racing because she is a devote'd real-' life mother, George Montgomery takes two months to carve a cradle for his new daughter, Van Johnson shops for toys and John Payne writes short stories.