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My Life with King Vidor

Excerpt from Chp. 3, “Making Room for Daddy” “These years included King sometimes taking Linnie and me to sets of movies he was directing, his big post-war movies Duel in the Sun and The Fountainhead. I saw how movies were made, and I met Jennifer Jones and Gary Cooper. On special occasions like birthdays, I went […]

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WR Hearst and San Simeon

Excerpt from Chapert 1, End of the Fairytale… After my parents’ marriage suddenly ended, Linnie and I saw less of our dad and we ended up seeing more of WR Hearst and Marion Davies, my mother’s best friend. Marion invited Eleanor to their San Simeon estate often, to get her away from the divorce suit […]

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