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According to Turk and documents filed at the Registry of Deeds, Wetmore's apartment is owned by James N. Kaspar of Newton Circle, who bought the apartment in 1981 as a condominium from Robert M. Harlow...
...time Hollywood sometimes seems to have almost as many closeted skeletons as the Kremlin. Consider now the luxuriant scandal surrounding Paul Bern, an MGM producer who was found shot to death in 1932 shortly after his marriage to his prize star, Jean Harlow. A suicide note apologized for "the frightful wrong I have done you." MGM boss Louis B. Mayer tried to protect Harlow by spreading the word that Bern had been impotent and killed himself in shame. After a minimal investigation, the coroner's jury declared that Bern had committed suicide with "motive undetermined." End of scenario...
...Bern's house on the morning his body was found, hours before anyone called the police. He discovered MGM production chief Irving Thalberg already there, interrogating the servants and learned that Mayer had even earlier come and gone. He heard that some woman had visited Bern the night before (Harlow was away) and that there had been sounds of quarreling. ^ All this led Marx to believe Bern had committed suicide because Millette was threatening to expose him as a bigamist...
...young writer could get "mulched in among the ravening crowd, waving pads and pens, rushing about at premiere nights under the klieg lights or pursuing Marlene Dietrich into her hairdresser's or running after Cary Grant at the Friday-night Legion Stadium boxing matches, waiting outside restaurants for Jean Harlow to have one more three-hour lunch or Claudette Colbert to come laughing out at midnight...
Wasserstein sometimes elicits pity when she is reaching for empathy. In "Jean Harlow's Wedding Night," she describes arranging a trip to Paris to be there at the same time as a banker she has been dating, then his trying to sneak off in the morning without saying goodbye. He tells her he is involved with someone else. She slips into near hysteria, making jokes (she says they are funny) about the waiter, the croissants, the plates, the Ayatullah. They part, but she calls him later in the day to have dinner at a "hilariously hip restaurant." Of course...