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Billings, who was less successful than Kennedy with women and who never married, was the target of some of J.F.K.'s affectionate jokes. The President once invited Greta Garbo to dinner at the White House with Billings, who was immensely proud of having squired the actress around the Italian Riviera the previous summer. By prearrangement with Kennedy, Garbo loudly professed never to have set eyes on Billings before that evening...
Scores of famous names flutter effortlessly from Selznick's pages: Anita Loos, Irving Thalberg, Sam Goldwyn, Janet Gaynor, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo and Uncle William, known at the office as Mr. Hearst. Banker-Politician Averell Harriman coached her in bridge and croquet, and Howard Hughes wanted her to be his "woman friend" because, as Go-Between Gary Grant suggested, she was a "tested product...
Rolls dealers welcomed the price cuts, but they do not expect a dramatic rise in sales. They point out that for most Rolls buyers, who in the past have included George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Hemingway, Greta Garbo and Reggie Jackson, price remains a secondary consideration...
DIED. Walter Reisch, 79, Academy Award-winning screen author who wrote, and occasionally directed, some 25 films in Austria and Germany before fleeing to the U.S. in the 1930s to script hit movies for Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) and Vivien Leigh (That Hamilton Woman) and to win an Oscar for the 1953 disaster epic Titanic; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Hamilton, Bermuda. An English-born naturalized American citizen who worked as a journalist in Spain, a shipwright in Singapore and a professor of English literature in China and Alabama, Payne produced as many as six or seven books a year on subjects ranging from early Christian history to Greta Garbo's films. His best-known works, biographies of such men as Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and Gandhi, were highly readable but broke little new interpretive or historical ground...