Screen Guide, March 1949
âMy Wonderful Wife,â by Collier Young
âHe found she had nine personalities! To Ida Lupino's husband, it's perplexingâbut perfect!â
Photo caption of Lupino sitting on a sofa in her living room: âIda's home has a cozy âlived-inâ look. She blended Collier's antiques with her old china and pewter to create stunning effects.â
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When I first met Ida Lupino at a dinner party about ten years ago, I thought she was tremendously feminine and blindingly bright. A Dresden-like bodyâamethyst eyesârapier wit.
Our paths crossed again about two years ago, at another dinner party. On this occasion I saw another side of Ida. Although almost eight years had passed, we took up our conversation right where we had left it off. I had the feeling that was just completing a sentence. That's how easy it was to talk to Ida. We talked about the things that had happened to us in the years since we had last met. I had been in the Navy and Ida had been doing a great deal of work âŚ
Second page in layout of âMy Wonderful Wife,â by Collier Young. Screen Guide, March 1949.
Photo caption of panoramic view of Lupino standing in front of her house, hands on hips: âNo decorator had a hand in the Young manse-inside and out, Ida planned it all.â
Photo caption of Young and Lupino at a restaurant: ââShe's a wonderful dancer, too!â says Collier, but nightclubbing is rare for the Youngs, who prefer small parties at their home.â
Photo caption of Lupino standing in kitchen, smiling: âWhen Ida's in the kitchen, anything can happen! She's a creative cook, makes up recipes as she goes along.â
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⌠entertaining servicemen. We exchanged little quips.
I thought the attraction between us was instantaneous, but she turned out to be a very hard girl to catch. She had given herself the title of "Bachelor Girl" and she meant it. She wasn't bitter about men. She was just convinced that she didn't need them.
I tried to find ways of becoming necessary to her.
It was while I was launched on this absorbing campaign that I began to realize how many different personalities existed in that one slim body.
I used this knowledge in our courtship. When I discovered that she had a yen to become a bicycle rider, I gave her a bicycle. My other gifts were equally unorthodox, for they were adapted to different facets of Ida's unusual personality.
I waged a long, determined campaign. Ida earnestly, painstakingly pointed out to me that too many people become prisoners of marriage, and thất she relished her freedom. I earnestly and painstakingly pointed out to Ida that life was fleeting and time was passing.
Finally, I gave her thirty days to make up her mind. Typically feminine, she took nearly every one of those days before she said "yes" on the twenty-eighth day.
After our marriage, I discovered that I was married not to one woman but to nine! There is (1) the wife (2) the actress (3) the (Continued on page 95)
New husband of Ida Lupino, Collier Young, writes about her in Screen Guide, March 1949: âMy Wonderful Wife.â
This issue would have been on sale around the time Lupino was in final preparations for her first independent production, âNot Wantedâ (1949).
