Brennan’s contribution to The Wedding Night (March 8, 1935), starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten—the Russian beauty Samuel Goldwyn was promoting as the next European import to rival Greta Garbo and Mar...
By way of preparing me for a visit to Paul Foot, Michael told me a story about the time Paul, then 14 and a public school boy, visited Jill and Michael at the Abbey Road home. He was shocked that Jill...
Character actor Ernest Borgnine told a story about Walter Brennan that is typical of the man and his professionalism. Relatively new to motion pictures, but with a burgeoning reputation as an actor, B...
Embarking on each new biography is like beginning the world anew, establishing—once again—a network of contacts and conspirators, and inciting the enmity of countless cronies and court whores who do t...
June 7: Norma Jeane leaves the Los Angeles Orphans Home to live with Grace and her husband, Doc Goddard, at 6707 Odessa Avenue in Van Nuys. Norma Jeane hears on the radio that Jean Harlow has died. A...
June 8: The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) serves Miller with a subpoena to testify on June 14 in Washington, D.C. The committee agrees to delay the hearing until June 21, so that Mi...
March 3: Associated Press columnist Bob Thomas reports Joan Crawford’s comments on Monroe’s appearance at a Photoplay awards dinner: It was like a burlesque show. Someone should make her see the light...
[CR] Tony Benn seems to have been an incredible headache. [MF] Yes, he was. [CR] She asks this question: Should Michael be tougher on Benn and the other trouble makers? But she fears that if you do, t...
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