Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No Money for Dates. Bronx neighbors still remember the thin, dark-haired girl on the way home from school, munching a 5? pickle and reading plays as she walked. But in her senior year Anne inexplicably decided to become a lab technician and work nobly at the side of some...
In 1951, 20th Century-Fox screen-tested an aspiring actor named Doug Rogers, and Anne agreed to help him out by playing opposite. Result: no one noticed Rogers (says Anne: "I don't know where the kid is now"), but Fox signed Anne. Of course Mamma went along to...
Eccentric Alliance. Hollywood gossips kept track of Anne's long and apparently aimless list of dates. Says she: "I wanted to get married-just about anybody would have done. I'd even thought of marrying Jessel." She finally married Martin A. May, nine years her senior, the son...
On their first wedding anniversary the Mays were remarried in the Roman Catholic Church to please Anne's parents. But the marriage was already beyond salvage. In 1957 Anne tried for a church annulment and failed; Martin then got a divorce on the ground of mental cruelty. Anne no...
"Lousy, Huh?" After six years, Hollywood was beginning to pall in other ways, too. "The studios wanted to give me the Monroe-type sex buildup," she says. "I wanted to develop my acting, not my body." When TV Actor Richard Basehart recommended Anne to Producer Fred Coe as an ideal...