| Show Sotbenn is paradox in courage Women her— and hate her Men like her— but don’t love her She’s a lazy woman who does the work of three executives She's a person who loVes people and parties but lives a lonely life in a mansion valued at $250000— while figuring out how to pay the U& nearly $1 million it claims she owes in back taxes She's a Wbman who wants nothing more than to be married but at 49 with two divorces she has given up hope of eve finding another husband She’s a woman who has had more heartbreaks more ups and downs more misfortunes than almost any other actress in Hollywood —yet has found the courage to fight back Each time she has been hit by trouble she has bounced back smiling Take a spring day in Minneapolis when she wss Harriet Lake and eight yean old She saw a little boy dash across the street and into the path of an — oncoming car- Impulsively she rushed after him Ann vii I t is FMily Weakly Mare I IMI and shoved him away from the screeching wheels —in time to save him but not herself The car ran over her and she loft consciousness “When I woke up in the hospital" Ann recalls “I heard my father call me ‘Dear’ and Darling' It was wonderful It was the first time he had ever shown such affection to me"' In spite of her injuries Ann appreciated this warmth from a man who had never been able to show much affection who had hoped for a son but fathered nothing but daughters whom he raised like sons until he divorced their mother and remarried— only to have more daughters! Ann isn’t Utter "He taught me to be a good businesswoman" she says proudly Today they are partners raising black angus cattle in Idaho With Ann there has always been a new vitality a new aim a will to bounce back when things went wrong And they never went more wrong than the day she collapsed in Sun Valley Idaho ' It was January 1950 and Ann was skiing'when was she overcome by a deep feeling of suddenly Minutes two members of the ski later fctigue her were downhill on a stretcher patrol carrying Ann sras too tired to care She was convinced it was only exhaustion ' But it wasn't exhaustion Ann had been stricken by infectious hepatitis The illness eventually led to the necessity for a thyroidectomy passed before Ann Four trass For three of these could return to years she was in and out of the hospital undergoing treatment including two serious operations Most of the time she was flat on her back unable to move caring little whether she lived or died Next came cancellation of her movie contract with MGM Ann insists they parted by mutual agreement A dose friend disagrees "She was fired after making a big fortune for them with her won- - r |
