Sorry I couldn't post Pt. III sooner. My internet connection was acting up--grrr, I hate when that happens! It's behaving pretty well now, so on with the show! :)
Here's a wonderful pic of Jack Kelly from Silver Screen Annual 1959:
He's determinedly learning his lines for Maverick (the script is for the episode "Seed of Deception" ) as May Wynn and their pet poodle keep him company. The caption for this cozy scene is "Jack Kelly and May Wynn have just one rule for matrimonial success--be very very much in love."
The write-up reveals another factor JK thought was crucial for marital bliss:
"While Jack Kelly has no formula for a happy marriage, he has one concept which, he feels, has a good deal to do with how well two people can get along together. And this point of view dates back to an experience he had when he was 11 years old and one afternoon got the bright idea of how to get a bicycle he had wanted for so long.
In return for his promise to pay it off in weekly installments, he talked the owner of the bicycle shop where he worked after school into letting him have a shiny new two-wheeler.
Soon Jack realized he couldn't meet his payments. After worrying about it for a couple of weeks, during which he made himself and the rest of his family pretty miserable with his brooding, he had no choice but to give it back.
Even his father had turned down his request for financial assistance. 'He wanted to teach me a lesson about finances, and he certainly did,' Jack recalled. He said never get anything you can't afford. It causes nothing but trouble.'
Consequently, when Jack, who plays Bart Maverick in the ABC-TV series, married actress May Wynn at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in 1956, he was so firmly convinced that the cornerstone of every successful marriage is to be free of financial worries that he and May agreed never to buy anything in installments. The only exception was their house, and even then they didn't put it in escrow till they had enough money in their bank account to equal the loan they took out on the property."
Hey, JK sounds like a regular Dave Ramsey! :->
Coming up next: What was so special about Saturday night at the Kelly's home? (No, it wasn't bath night.) ;->
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It's so nice to hear that JK had pretty wise thoughts on money. And it's swell to know you know about Dave Ramsey, Bartista! He's a familiar name in our home. These vintage photos are amazing and show the personal side to JK. I wish there were fellas like that these days!
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