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Connections were Niven's genius. They led him to Hollywood in 1934, found him room and board with Loretta Young's mother, they got him a seven-year contract with Sam Goldwyn-as well as a chance to play polo with Darryl Zanuck even before he had a speaking part...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...first years of their marriage, the Fitzgeralds managed to live a life fit for her fantasies. He was the precocious, popular author. Her slogan was Let's do something! and Scott was only too glad to comply, whether it was carousing all night or arriving at Sam Goldwyn's party on all fours, barking. There was no room in this private playground for a real child, and the birth of Frances ("Scottie") complicated their lives. Zelda had no maternal feelings-especially for a little blonde girl...
...warehouse full of Hollywood history was on the block, but few of Hollywood's own won out in the bidding. At the auction of 46 years' and a rumored $1,600,000 worth of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer props and costumes, Debbie Reynolds tried to buy her own brass bed from The Unsinkable Molly Brown, but just didn't want to go as high as $3,000. The day belonged to unknown buyers, who put up $2,400 for Bert Lahr's cowardly-lion suit from The Wiz ard of Oz and $1,250 for Clark Gable...
...empire, Princess Irina was hundreds of miles away on the evening, two years later, when her husband poisoned, shot and bludgeoned to death the Mad Monk. Soon afterward the couple fled to England, where in 1934 Irina made world headlines by winning a $125,000 libel suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the film Rasputin and the Empress, which depicted her as having been raped by Rasputin...