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Discouragement or no. Hutton is determined to transfer that special quality she has before still cameras to the movies. Reason: "Modeling is psychological lemonade compared with acting. When you make an emotion that others see and recognize, then you are flying." She will have a chance to "fly" again. Following the Revson contract, she immediately got two movie offers. She has already accepted—and begun shooting—one of them: Paramount's The Gambler, in which she is directed by Karel Reisz. James Caan costars.
At a time of life when most models begin to think of marrying a rich man and retiring to a Park Avenue duplex, Hutton is just beginning to hit her stride. "I have started coming together," she says. "I'm older, smarter, more comfortable with what I am now.
Consequently I look better." But her famous self-confidence vanishes for just a moment. Perhaps thinking of that once failed film career, she says, "There's always a surprise. I keep looking for that banana peel."