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...next few months, Brisson phoned regularly for dates of his own. Just as regularly, Ros said no. Today, she is still impressed by the mysteries of love. "All of a sudden," she recalls. "I found myself saying yes to Freddy and no to other people." She gestures, helplessly: "Then we got hitched...
Family Split. The Women was followed by such hits as His Girl Friday, Take a Letter, Darling, and My Sister Eileen. But Ros was also making such duds as No Time for Comedy and They Met in Bombay. She says, jauntily, "I'll match my flops with anybody," and adds: "There are only two ways to get ahead in Hollywood. You either have to get one great picture a year-these propel you forward-or your impact has to be made with a lot of pictures." Ros, of necessity, chose the second way, and was realist enough to know...
During the war, her husband went into uniform (he became a lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Force radio unit), and Ros was off on USO shows, telling jokes and singing Baby, That's a Wolf. In Washington, she met Mamie Eisenhower. They took an instant shine to each other: Mamie asked Ros to tea, and Ros asked Mamie to dinner. She did not meet the General until three years later...
...early rider on the Eisenhower bandwagon. Ros raced to New York for the Madison Square Garden rally for Ike, and campaigned vigorously up & down California. Her superb money-raising techniques were put to work for the Republicans. Her only campaign failure: she was unable to corral her family into a solid bloc behind her candidate. Sister Mary Jane stubbornly voted for Stevenson...
Never-Never Land. Rosalind's son, Lance, was born in 1943, and the following year she had a nervous breakdown. "I just got up one morning, and fell in a heap." The collapse put Ros in the hospital for three weeks and "slowed me up long enough to realize that after a wonderful career you either retire or go on to something you've never undertaken before. I was forced to meditate on the never-never land I was living in-it's part climate, part bank account, part self." Even faced by these unaccustomed self-doubts...