Evening star., 1960-05-08
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Script
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

hOAn1A WOOD.-4 Cou&ib
up with Ray Milland. hip
deep in production. shooting
his Markham" series on the
old Universal International
lot. We're getting close to
this seasons final segment"
Ray said. and I'm counting
the weeks, days, moments.
After that-rest, more rest.
A change of scene and travel
The minute I get going. a
great weight is lifted-the
tensions and pressures slip
away with the miles. I feel
like I'm sproutine wings Of
freedom"
There was a rumor that
the veteran star. who has
lived in Hollywood for %
years-an American citizen
for % of them-was pulling
up stakes to live in Europe
for those tax benefits.
Where" Ray demanded.
docs such bunk get started?
As far as I know I'm not
pulling up stakes, and only
intend to make one-half of
my TV show with European
locales. My future is in the
hands of God and my agents,
MCA-snd please give God
first billing"
There were 80 Markham"
segments last year, and 81
this year. 80 I have to come
back in September to COM
plete the balance Of quota"
His Own Boss
why haven't you been
making more movieS?" I
wanted to know of the man
who won an Oscar for his
portrayal of a drunk in The
Lost Weekend" in 1945. ITS
very simple" answered Mil
land. mo good scripts. I re-
ceive about two month. So
far l haven't found one that
Is worth doing. You get the
same money and sometimes
more, doing T'V. And we get
twice the values major stu
dios get in their product. I'll
admit there are times now
when I'm bored with the
routine. But it also happened
when I was under contract,
and had to make films when
my heart wasn't in it. When
you work for a boss. you do
what the boss says. Now I'm
my own boss"
Ray was anything but a
boss. when he came here in
1882, having changed his
name in England from Reg
inald Truscott-Jones, to Reg
inald Millane. before emerg-
ing as Ray Milland, film star.
when MGM offered to pay
my expenses to bring me to
Hollywood. thought, What
a wonderful way to see the
Pacific Ocean and Leila
Hyams!' She was a beautiful
movie star at that time. I'd
seen her on the screen in
London and developed quite
q crush.
During those lean. early
years I lived in an apartment
on the corner Of Orange
Grove and Sunset boulevard.
They evicted me and held
my trunk, because I couldn't
pay my s50-a-month rent.
Years later I had a chance
to buy this same apartment
building. I didn't, but I did
go to see If my trunk was
still in the basement. 1t was.
and still containing a long
list OF agents given to me by
friends in London"
Always Came Back
During his long, successful
career Ray has sometimes
refused to make a picture. or
walked of, a set in high
dudgeon. Like many others
I went through that 'my-in-
tegrity is = wounded phase, >
and walked out and told them
I'd never come back. You
know what made me change
my mind and come running? /?
Clean restaurants, cold or
ange juice and fast laundries. 4"
The Millands have two
children. 6-foot-6 Danny,
now studying at the Univer-
sity Of Madrid. and "our
adored Vickie. She enters a
European school later this
year while we're abroad. 1
pray that they will be happy
human beings. Danny hasn't
made up his mind yet what
he wants to be. don't think
he will ever be an actor"