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...town in later life Mayer was an equally contradictory character-a classic Hollywood hunter who nevertheless "preferred to think of the women he embraced as sacred vessels,-potential mothers, rather than as what they obviously were." With less restraint than Hedda Hopper, the biographer names the vessels Mayer may or may not have embraced. On one of his frequent European talent safaris, reports Crowther, Mayer was completely entranced with an unknown Hungarian actress named Haj-massy; he signed her to a contract as Ilona Massey immediately after a dance floor accident, when a broken shoulder strap "exposed a great deal...
...Exodus. Others besides Hedda were worried. The spectacle of millionaire movie actors lined up with extras against the men who once ran the town suggested to Hollywood oldtimers the end of an era. In fact, that era had ended long ago. "I'm not going to start another picture," said M-G-M Producer Joe Pasternak, "until the actors decide to give the business back to the bosses." But there are virtually no bosses around to take it back...
...Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (NBC), last week, Actress Marion Davies, "who usually looks a beat 65," appeared as a creamily blonde "25-year-old doll," reported San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Terrence O'Flaherty. How was it done? "A strip of strong, finely woven net is glued along the temple and down almost to the middle of the ear. Tiny hooks are secured to the lace and then the face is made up, hiding everything . . . Rubber bands are looped over the hooks and tied together on top of the head. The tighter the tie, the less the skin dangles...
...ports and capitals of southern Europe," drinking, bragging, anxious about his "unique physique" and his past performances: "Since my teens I have gone to bed twelve or fourteen thousand nights." He recalls fondly how he kept busy ducking alimony payments, reminisces bravely about the time he kicked Hedda Hopper, curses Hollywood for being "the ruin of creative personalities" like his own. At book's end he pulls himself together, steps back into the only role he was ever able to play, and with a sly Irish twinkle in his prose confesses that his wicked, wicked ways have left...
...kind of awesome energy that has made him TV's biggest producer. Sundays at his Beverly Hills home he likes to relax by donning a topee or a menacing German combat helmet and a British officer's short jacket and moodily marching about with his poodles (names: Hedda and Louella) and his vast television dreams. Occasionally, his reverie may be shattered by a cry from his third wife,* blonde Musicomedienne Vivienne (Pal Joey) Segal: "For heaven's sake, Hub, take off that damn helmet...