11. Errol Flynn was quite the lothario, but he drank so much he couldn’t always satisfy the ladies I set up for him to have sex with – that’s where I would step in . . .
12. Rita Hayworth was such a beautiful lady, but we never had the chance to go to bed together. I knew her brother Eduardo though, and through him I found out that the two of them did not get along at all.
13. Vinny Price and his second wife Coral Browne – I tricked him for years, and set her up with young women in the ’70s, but the two of them nonetheless had a very happy, if sex-free, marriage.
14. Henry Willson agented all the best beefcake actors – I fixed him up with many guys, mostly in the ’50s.
15. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor came to visit L.A. in the early ’50s, and I was so flattered to hear they’d heard of me! Eddy and I had a lot of fun together, and Wally was also not as straight as she seemed.
16. Spencer Tracy was an incredible actor and a very sensitive guy. I used to help him out at his place in the evenings – and sometimes stayed the night.
17. Vivien Leigh and I went to bed together while she was shooting A Streetcar Named Desire and her husband Larry Olivier was busy working on another film. She was an amazing lover.
18. Somerset Maugham was bisexual, and heavily into voyeurism.
19. I used to trick Noël Coward when he came to Los Angeles He was a very sexual person, and—like everyone—had his likes and his dislikes.
20. Ex-actress and high-class hooker Barbara Payton. She was quite the professional in the bedroom!
21. I was great pals with Desi Arnaz, the actor husband of I Love Lucy’s Lucille Ball – who was not happy about me setting up Desi with other women!
22. Poor henpecked Paul Novak with his long-term lover Mae West. Mickey Hargitay is on the left.
23. Steve Reeves, who I once sent over to Cukor as a trick. Like a lot of bodybuilders, he was straight but did things with guys for the cash.
24. Edith Piaf, who I met when she was singing at the Mocambo – we had sex nearly every night for the four weeks she was in town. I never met Marlene Dietrich, but I sure would have liked to!
25. Ty Power, an old Marine buddy of mine and famous actor, whose biography was missing some of the juicy details of what he liked to get up to in the bedroom.
26. Charles Laughton was a brilliant actor, and had a very unusual fetish – but each to his own!
27. I became good friends with Ramón Novarro when he was in his fifties. He was gay, and had a very healthy sexual appetite.
28. I first met Rock Hudson at the gas station in ’46 or ’47, but got to know him better in the ’50s, when I bartended at some parties for him. His homosexuality was one of the closest guarded secrets in Hollywood.
29. Tony Perkins, Tab Hunter’s long-term boyfriend, who I tricked on several occasions.
30. James Dean with Tab Hunter.
31. I first tricked Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, in the early ’60s and helped him out when the Beatles came to Los Angeles in ’64.
32. Montgomery Clift was a fussy guy when it came to tricks.
33. J. Edgar Hoover, who I was very surprised to meet in the late ’50s in some unusual circumstances! Here he is on the set of the movie The Greatest Show on Earth with Cornel Wilde, Betty Hutton, and Charlton Heston.
34. I tricked Raymond Burr, star of Perry Mason, very often, and set him up with his long-term partner, Bob Benevidez.
35. Tennessee Williams once wrote an account of my life and adventures in Hollywood, but I told him to burn it – it was beautifully written, but made me sound like the mother of all queens!
36. A photo of me taken in 2010, when I was eighty-seven years old.
37. Cary Grant. Need I say more?
Me at the age of nine months.
Me at the age of three, with my brother Donald (five) and sister Phyllis (one).
Walter Pidgeon, a well-known actor in the ’40s and the first guy who picked me up at the gas station.
Sadly, I don’t have a photo of the Hollywood Boulevard gas station, but it looked much like this one.
Syd Guilaroff, hairstylist to Garbo, Taylor, Monroe, and others, shown here with Lana Turner; and Bill Haines, actor turned interior designer – two of the first guys I tricked in Hollywood.
Cole Porter was a great friend of mine back in the ’40s – and he loved the Marines I used to send over to his place.
George Cukor with Greta Garbo. Cukor’s pool parties were legendary – anyone who was anyone would be there. I first tricked him in the ’40s and he introduced me to lots of future friends.
Cary Grant and Randolph Scott – these guys were both married when I got to know them, but that didn’t stop the three of us from becoming very closely acquainted.
Me when I enlisted for the Marines at age eighteen.
Even though she didn’t get along with everybody, Hepburn and I enjoyed a great friendship. The studios claimed she was madly in love with Spencer Tracy, but I never saw any evidence of that. Kate preferred the company of women, and I always found her the young brunettes she liked best.
Errol Flynn was quite the lothario, but he drank so much he couldn’t always satisfy the ladies I set up for him to have sex with – that’s where I would step in . . .
Rita Hayworth was such a beautiful lady, but we never had the chance to go to bed together. I knew her brother Eduardo though, and through him I found out that the two of them did not get along at all.
Vinny Price and his second wife Coral Browne – I tricked him for years, and set her up with young women in the ’70s, but the two of them nonetheless had a very happy, if sex-free, marriage.
Henry Willson agented all the best beefcake actors – I fixed him up with many guys, mostly in the ’50s.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor came to visit L.A. in the early ’50s, and I was so flattered to hear they’d heard of me! Eddy and I had a lot of fun together, and Wally was also not as straight as she seemed.
Spencer Tracy was an incredible actor and a very sensitive guy. I used to help him out at his place in the evenings – and sometimes stayed the night.
Vivien Leigh and I went to bed together while she was shooting A Streetcar Named Desire and her husband Larry Olivier was busy working on another film. She was an amazing lover.
Somerset Maugham was bisexual, and heavily into voyeurism.
I used to trick Noël Coward when he came to Los Angeles He was a very sexual person, and—like everyone—had his likes and his dislikes.
Ex-actress and high-class hooker Barbara Payton. She was quite the professional in the bedroom!
I was great pals with Desi Arnaz, the actor husband of I Love Lucy’s Lucille Ball – who was not happy about me setting up Desi with other women!
Poor henpecked Paul Novak with his long-term lover Mae West. Mickey Hargitay is on the left.
Steve Reeves, who I once sent over to Cukor as a trick. Like a lot of bodybuilders, he was straight but did things with guys for the cash.
Edith Piaf, who I met when she was singing at the Mocambo – we had sex nearly every night for the four weeks she was in town. I never met Marlene Dietrich, but I sure would have liked to!
Ty Power, an old Marine buddy of mine and famous actor, whose biography was missing some of the juicy details of what he liked to get up to in the bedroom.
Charles Laughton was a brilliant actor, and had a very unusual fetish – but each to his own!
I became good friends with Ramón Novarro when he was in his fifties. He was gay, and had a very healthy sexual appetite.
I first met Rock Hudson at the gas station in ’46 or ’47, but got to know him better in the ’50s, when I bartended at some parties for him. His homosexuality was one of the closest guarded secrets in Hollywood.
Tony Perkins, Tab Hunter’s long-term boyfriend, who I tricked on several occasions.
James Dean with Tab Hunter.
I first tricked Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, in the early �
�60s and helped him out when the Beatles came to Los Angeles in ’64.
Montgomery Clift was a fussy guy when it came to tricks.
J. Edgar Hoover, who I was very surprised to meet in the late ’50s in some unusual circumstances! Here he is on the set of the movie The Greatest Show on Earth with Cornel Wilde, Betty Hutton, and Charlton Heston.
I tricked Raymond Burr, star of Perry Mason, very often, and set him up with his long-term partner, Bob Benevidez.
Tennessee Williams once wrote an account of my life and adventures in Hollywood, but I told him to burn it – it was beautifully written, but made me sound like the mother of all queens!
A photo of me taken in 2010, when I was eighty-seven years old.
Cary Grant. Need I say more?
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