OCR Text |
Show 3 PARADE'S SPECIAL Intelligence Report Bccuu aI tthmt of mol racanad. Farad rafrata it cannot aataar guana. Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman in 1938 film Brother Rat. Wyman & Reagan raw m HIB like The French Lieutenant's Woman Great movies, Taps, are just the beginning on HBO.K exclusive HBO also brings you great HBOnlys entertainment now showing nationwide only on HBO and no other cable TV network. Exclusive HBOnly movies, like Ragtime starring James Cagney and HBOnly specials, like Country Rock '82 with The Oak Ridge Boys. Ho wonder Home Box Office" is America's favorite cable TV service. fin 24 Hour LiUL2Ajtavies The Beginning:" 1982 Momt Bo Office Inc All rights reserved $ Riglsltred SCTVka mark and Tl struct marks ol Home Box Office Inc Happy Endings Wyman is lucky. At an age most movie actresses of ear are relegated to bit character parts, occasional stints in dinner or summer theater. Wyman is pulling dow n $35,000 per episode as the star of the hit TV series. Falcon Crest. She is 68 years old. Wyman was married to Ronald it was her Reagan from 1040-194- 8 second marital try. his first but she steadfastly refuses to discuss him. All reporters who interview her are warned that mention of his name is forbidden. "Reagan may be President of the United States." a CBS press agent concedes, "but Jane is star of the show. She makes her own ground rules. She zealously protects her privacy. And besides, who wants to rehash what happened 40 years ago? Forty years ago is a long time." The truth about the Wyman-Reaga- n marriage is that she dumped him simply because she had fallen out of love with Ronnie." In the early years of their marriage, she found him open, buoyant, optimistic, blessed with a bright and sunny disposition. Six years later, she found him a bore who talked Jane They married in 1940. he incessantly about union politics Actors was president of the Screen Guild and other subjects in which she had little interest. Moreover, her career was flourishing, his was declining and. in her assessment of their marital status, she magnified their differences in temperament and outlook, a practice which almost inevitably leads to divorce. Had Wyman and Reagan not divorced in 1948, an action to which he was bitterly opposed 34 years ago. one wonders what hand fate might have dealt their marriage. Would they have grown old together happily? This is practically an impossibility in Hollywood when both husband and w ife are career thespians. Or would they have split eventually? Conjecture can be endless. For both, however, the winters of their lives have been crowned with success. Ronnie Reagan, of all people, is President of the United States, and Jane Wyman is once again a shining star, earning $770,000 for 22 episodes of Falcon Crest , in which she plays superbly the ruthless, scheming matriarch of a a California family, rich soap-oper- in wine and plot. Happy endings! PAGE 8 NOVEMBER 28, 1982 PARADE MAGAZINE |