Location Managers Guild International

LMGI COMPASS | Winter 2020 • 23 A it if I would be a "Kennedy Girl" during a campaign visit to LA. This was in 1960. I agreed but not knowing much about him other than he was running for President. I hadn't taken civics at that time so elections in the United States were new to me. I met him and lots of his entourage: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, etc., I was in seventh heaven. I was given a cream-colored straw hat with "Kennedy for President" in gold letters on a red ribbon, I was requested to wear white gloves and be dressed all in white, with a big red sash from shoulder to waist that tied with a button showing his face with "Kennedy for President." Unfortunately, I did not own a camera and my mother got rid of everything many years later, including a handwritten note from Jacqueline Kennedy in response to my sympathy card sent after President Kennedy's assassination. High school graduation was held at the Playhouse in 1962. Our principal, who was a nun, insisted on NO PHOTOS as the Bishop would be presenting diplomas … when I walked across the stage, all you could see was fl ashbulbs going off in three different areas. I could hear our principal gasp! After the ceremony, she marched backstage and asked who took the photos of Aine, to which Rulon promptly responded, "I arranged it, and now she has graduated." No more was said. As one cousin mentioned years later that I was a problem child, I gather I was also for our principal. Years later, I was a guest speaker at the high school drama class talking about location managing and how all the challenges the principal put before me gave me the independence that I appreciate today. After graduation, I returned to my father in London, and together we would attend many classical performances, so I was still getting my share of culture. I later married and my former husband was in the RAF. We lived in England and N. Wales and it was there I once again had a taste of theatre. We performed Christmas plays for the Air Force Base. I was on stage and enjoyed making an attempt to sing, dance or play some small role. Once we landed in Canada, I still wanted to be involved in theatre. Eventually, I auditioned for a rep company and by some miracle, I was asked to join. I played mostly "ingenue" roles and loved performing in comedy. A publicist came to my plays and talked to me about going in fi lm and I appeared in a Police Surgeon episode as an extra, to determine if my face emoted on screen. I guess it did as I was asked to audition for a commercial, a comedy and would have to sign a two- year contract and not appear in any other commercials. As I was driving my new Mini Minor to the audition, a drunk driver drove through a red light and smashed into my little Mini. It pushed me into oncoming traffi c where fi ve cars hit me. Back in those days, there were no law suits—just the cost of repairs of your vehicle. Mine was totaled so I didn't even get the cost of a new car. After the accident, I never went back on stage again. So I literally came into locations by accident. In the '70s, my husband met a gent at the race track (we bred thoroughbreds on our farm) when one of our horses won. Bob came to the winner's circle to thank my husband for his winnings. Bob was an actor and stuntman. His girlfriend worked for Columbia Pictures. They came to our farm for dinner one weekend and I realized I knew Bob as we had attended some of the same auditions. His girlfriend, Lise, produced a talk show called Street Talk. Weeks later, she asked if I would be interested in helping as a PA. I said I would try it and that lasted two years during the taping season. I then started helping Bob on a volunteer basis scouting. He would explain what he was looking Backstage at the Mission Playhouse As a visiting guest speaker at Mission High School drama class

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