Gregory Peck, on the purely artistic level, is not the equal of actors of the first order such as Brando, Donat, Tracy, or March; and in the depths of his heart he too, no doubt, knows it. But the crowds look on him with the utmost admiration... to them he is that captivating man who unites in his manliness Abraham Lincoln and Gary Cooper... he is the man of feeling who dies to save his beloved, and who is a master at stirring the emotions.

In Hollywood they consider Greg intelligent, of a quiet temper, ruling his life and his manner of living as he pleases. He has not many friends... he prefers to keep to himself and not to confide to the newspapermen the joys of his heart or its sorrows!

And one thing he certainly lacks: the love of a joke... or of

adventure... The women reporters of the star papers affirm that diving for pearls is far easier than snatching a joke from Greg's mouth!

But the shy actor did not hide from the newspapermen the news of his recent marriage to the beauty of twenty-four, Véronique Passani... She was a simple reporter for the paper "Paris-Presse" who came to inter-view him and to ask of him what all others had failed to obtain! And so their destiny was sealed! That is all Greg reveals of his private life..

What, then, is the secret behind Greg's reticence and his with-drawal into himself? It may be a residue of earliest childhood... His father was a successful pharma-cist who won fame and glory in the game of football; but he did

His new wife, Véronique

not get on with his wife, and she asked for a divorce and lived with her son Greg, working to support him... And perhaps in this tragedy lies the source of the handsome actor's bitterness and his distance from people... "It is a black period of my life that I do not like to speak of."

At school Greg

With Audrey Hepburn

With Ava Gardner

With Ingrid Bergman