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represented on the screen.

Director Billy Wilder made an interesting statement about Power's legendary charm. When mentioning Marlene Dietrich's infatuation with Power during the filming of "Witness for the Prosecution", Wilder said, "Everybody had a crush on Ty. Laughton had a crush on him. I did, too. As heterosexual as you might be, it was impossible to be totally impervious to that kind of

they were friends Wilder said that he never sensed any homosexual leanings in Power. The star's makeup man for twenty-three years claimed the same thing.

It is interesting that the men sexually associated with Power felt that he was primarily homosexual. It is also interesting that one of Power's female ex-lovers from his early days, who rejected his marriage proposal and went on to marry two other actors.

charm " In the brief period that emphatically denied that Power

was bisexual, insisting that he "innately loved women, sexually and spiritually." From the gathered evidence it is impossible to know what percentage of Power was heterosexual and what percentage was homosexual, if such things can even be calculated in percentages. Perhaps Power didn't know himself. What is clear is that because of his pull in opposite directions, and his need to hide this, he was a tormented person.

But this wasn't the only reason for his unhappiness. He never realized the high goal he set for himself; he never approached his father's stature as an actor. Tyrone Power, Jr appearing in a

sometimes dreary repetition of movie roles, especialy after his return from World War II, where he served well as a flyer in the Marines, was always more movie star than actor. He received fine reviews for his stage work in "John Brown's Body" and did other stage work, but the movie star image persisted.

Should biographies like this be written: biographies of deceased celebrities detailing as much about their sex lives as can be unearthed? Do even the celebrated deceased have their right to privacy? And should this review, even, be written? What was Arce's motive in writing this book? Was it the necessity to write a book because he is a writer and knows Hollywood, having covered it for "Women's Wear Daily" and collaborated on books with Groucho Marx and with Vincente Minnelli? Regard-

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less of motive, by and large this biography is not salacious, although some readers may feel that sometimes it borders or enters into scandal reporting. Yet these days we ask for complete truth, don't we? This brings up another matter. What is the margin of error in such a biography-in any biography? Arce himself points out that much of the opinion he received about Power was conflicting; and statements from people intimately associated with the subject of a biography usually cannot be concretely verified.

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The title of this biography is unfortunate because first of all it belongs to soap operas and then to yellow journalism. The core of the biography is not soap opera or yellow journalism, and the words on the dust jacket, "The drama of a bisexual in the spotlight," are expandable, for this is actually a full-scale biography covering all aspects of Power's life--as much of the aspects as Arce could unearth. Arce presents a sympathetic view of Power, and his analyses are reasonable. Although well written, mostly in a journalistic style,and apparently well researched, this biography doesn't quite have the scope of the two recent biographies of Montgomery Clift by Patricia Bosworth and by Robert LaGuardia, or of Charles Laughton's biography By Charles Higham, all three of which delve into the subject's homosexual life.

Perhaps the discreet Tyrone Power wouldn't mind this story of his life, in these late 1970's, helping to serve such a purpose. Perhaps the book can't harm anyone now. I hope it doesn't harm his twenty-year-old son, the son Power longed for, who was born posthumously. This son can well be proud of his father, who above all else--looks, charm, and talent--and despite the human weakness we are all heir to, was a gentleman, a gentle man, of intrinsic value.

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