"Do Stars Help or Hinder Their Kids?"

Proud mom Helen Hayes and son James MacArthur watched a showing of his first acting triumph together at a special kinescope screening because Miss Hayes was appearing in a play during the TV presentation of Deal A Blow, which sent young MacArthur to Hollywood from Harvard. Jamie reported: "I never studied drama or anything like that. Mother and dad (the late playwright Charles MacArthur) talked about theatre all the time and it rubbed off on me without my ever realizing it."