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Hollywood star Inger Stevens on location for “Firecreek” with James Stewart and Henry Fonda had beaten them in two previous games. Now, having asserted their manhood, they stood impatiently awaiting feminine obsequiousness. “The bar’s too close to the table,” Inger Stevens told them. “I couldn’t get enough backswing, or I would have beaten you again.” She left behind a roomful of deflated males, nothing new since Inger Stevens is her own woman in a man’s world and views with cool disdain life’s loneliness, pressures, and emotional involvements. I'd be afraid to be by myself. “Now I'm alone a lot. People ask meif I’m lonely.I tell them I have niy own small home, and like its solitude. I have my own Mercedes to take long drives—alone. My favorite pastime is travel by slow freighters to strange ports—again alone. Am I afraid? Never—well, yes, once I was frightened off from visiting Marrakech, but maybe I'll still visit it to see for myself. “T’m planning freighter voyages to the Orient and the Greek Islands.It’s better to travel alone unless you are with somebody very much a part of you, and there’s nobody like that in my life.” Inger smiles gently and speaks softly so that her ideas don’t sound as harsh as they read. But if she is truly of hard-tempered steel, it is understandable. Her parents divorced when she was 13 and her father left Sweden to teach at Kansas State in Manhattan, Kans, Later he sent for her and her brother, and they traveled alone on an itinerant freighter that was “slow but cheap,” arriving in New Orleans only to find nobody to meet them. They made their way to their father—alone. “At 16 I ran away to join burlesque. I never thought of it being bad, so, because I didn’t think bad, nothing that happened to me was bad. I remember being asked to care for a drunken performer, sick and helpless: People said, ‘disgusting and shocking.’ I thoughtonly that he was a sick man; nothing shocked or disgusted me because I could see nothing bad in the world.” Inger speaks of those days with clinical objectivity. In the past few years she has costarred in seven major productions, most recently “A Guide for the Married Man” with Walter Matthau, “Hang ’em High” She wasn’t alwayslike this. A dec- Because MIDOL contains: «= Anexclusive anti-spasmodic that helps STOP CRAMPING . ® Medically-approved ingredients that RELIEVE HEADACH BACKHE... CALM JUMPY NERVES... * Plus a mood.brightener that you a real lift you through the 1g pre-menstrual feeling calm and comi . Whirl away. Any day. With MiDoL! 7 ade ago such problems drove her into dangerous depression. Now, however, life has tempered Inger (born Inger Stensland in Stockholm) as fire does fine Swedish steel. tandonly marriage ended -.» Hee. =ebitterlyafter two 3years.(“All I wish to say is that it left a lasting impression on’me.”) She subsequently underwent an acrimonious 2%4-year contract battle with Paramount, going in debt to pay off contracts which had been made by her former agenthusband. “Tt was a nightmare,” she recalls, “but when it was over, I was a free woman in every sense of the word. I no longer needed anyone. I could laugh at problems that once would have made me so moody that 10 Family Weekly, August 27,1967 with Clint Eastwood, “Madigan” with Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda, and “The Long Ride Home” with George Hamilton and Glenn Ford. Shelives with typical Scandinavian frugality. “I have no status symbols. Oh, I tore up some rosebushes at homefor a sauna bath and pool, but I use them every morning, not just look at them. My Mercedes? Well, T squeezed the dealer down $500 from his bottom price, and my cars last meseven or eight years, so they are hardly luxuries.” Between career and travel, Inger devotes time to helping retarded children. Two cousins in Sweden are mentally retarded, and Inger’s interest goes far beyond lending her name to a charity. She has organized and promoted throughoutthe country exhibits of art by Hollywood stars, winning an award for her effort. She has carefully thought out a career in child guidance when and if her acting career ends. In talking about the mentally retarded, Inger’s steely self-possession seems far less total, and you wonder whether it may be a thin shield - rather than a complete attitude. This seems even more possible when she discusses her proposed freighter voyage to the Orient: “Yes, I'll do that soon- The Greek 75 wyfaa whalesTeeBee ” not 80 iodapeniiant ihn a out marriage, but he’ll have to be somebody you can think and communicate with. I want a marriage we can grow in. Inger Stivend costars with Richard Widmark in the film, “Madigan.” “When I meet this man—then I'll sail the Greek Islands with him. Until then, I’m saving them.” But what if he doesn’t want to go to the Greek Islands? Inger tilts her head fetchingly, smiles so slightly you feel rather than see its warmness. She sighs: “He will. He will.” |