After
packing the dogs off for Florida, Miss Carne put in a tough day
at the studio, following her custom of getting into a beef with
her co-star, Peter Deuel, a handsome young graduate of the Gidget
series, who is constructed like a linebacker for the Green Bay
Packers. Deuel had to change shirts, keeping Judy waiting on
the set. When he returned, she snapped, "Where the hell
have you been? It's hot under these lights."
"Were you glued to the chair?" he responded.
When Judy let him have it broadside with a carbonated remark, he turned to E.W. Swackhamer, the show's producer-director, and growled, "So help me, Swack, I'm gonna belt her the next time."
"Peter and I have a love-hate relationship," says Miss Carne, adding that the language they use on the set is hardly recommended for a convocation of Brownies but is honest language, the kind that holds a friendship together.
At the end of the working day, Judy kissed
Deuel good-by, as she did the producer, the wardrobe mistress,
the hairdresser, the production supervisor, and sundry others.
Pete
Deuel, who, incidentally, also rides a motorcycle, agrees with
his producer that Judy has temperament, but explains, "Happily,
it's not the obnoxious kind. We have some pretty spicy words for
each other, but she fights at a man's level and we never leave
the set at night bearing grudges."
Well-organized and fiercely punctual,
Miss Carne points out that many of the rhubarbs could be avoided
if Deuel weren't given to tardiness. "Pete is a dear-heart,"
she says, "but damn him, I'm always on time and he's always
late, never giving me the chance to make a star's appearance."
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