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Hollywood's hard-working hours gave Barbara little chance to see her baby. Her husband Carl's was but one of the voices urging her on with advice and suggestion. Some of the advice was probably good, but under the avalanche of expert opinion her own confidence wilted. "The self-assurance she had on the stage just vanished," says one of her best friends on the coast...
...point, simply to avoid the incessant heckling of makeup men who complained about the difficulties of shading her "nipple" nose, Barbara went to a plastic surgeon and had it bobbed. "It hurt," she said, "like the devil." The Hollywood payoff came when R.K.O.'s new boss Howard Hughes declared that Barbara had "no sex appeal." "That," said Barbara, "made me mad as hell." After 2½ years and four pictures, she and the studio parted company. "I was fired," is the way Barbara puts...
...Something Important." Some critics argue that Actress Bel Geddes was a downright flop in pictures. The fact is that she was neither a success nor a failure. As the daughter in Mama, Barbara did well enough to be nominated for an Oscar.† She was distinctive in none of her pictures, but in none was she disastrous. Like a diamond in the wrong setting, she seemed simply to have lost the special radiance that marked her on the stage. In the proper setting, the radiance was quick to return...
...York's critics gave every sign of wanting to welcome Barbara home with loud huzzas when she came back to Broadway last fall in John Steinbeck's gauntly Saroyanesque play, Burning Bright. But in the face of Steinbeck's dreary obscurities, the best most of them could muster was a cordial hello. Last month, when Barbara at last rode into town on a good play, the huzzas were unanimous...
...didn't realize," said Barbara last week, "how much I had missed New York." With her play set for a long run, and a seven-month contract guaranteeing her 10% of the box-office take (a figure topped only by such stars as Bankhead and Lawrence), she had time at last to spend long hours with her daughter Susan. The marriage which had been foundering on the shoals of Hollywood was ending in amicable divorce. Barbara had taken a two-year lease on a house in the East 80s, and was busy furnishing it. There were romantic and practical...