For Mrs. Osborne As I mentioned earlier , written in the two, red cornered ledger books Astor used for her diary, were not only detailed descriptions of Mary Astor’s personal activities—including extra marital affairs—but what she knew and/or heard about the activities of others. For example, when M...

Sue-Sue asked -Dodsworth was one of the first times, if not the first time that a man is seen to leave his marriage and not suffer egregious consequences under the Production Code. Do you have any comments on why that was allowed? Was it because of the novel by Sinclair Lewis? I got so lost in answe...

Well it did became a project that overwhelmed me. My editor told my agent that in all his years he never worked with a writer that was more passionate about a project then me. Also, I believed that Mary Astor, who is someone whom I resect enormously, deserved the best I could do as she never did any...

This s for Mrs. Osborne 1-No, I don’t think a trial transcript exists. As far as I could find there is no official transcript. Since newspapers and wire services had stenographers in the courtroom the tabloids printed up various portions of the testimony verbatim. Therefore, utilizing trial coverage...

I neglected to answer one part of Steve's questions about which are my favorite Mary Astor roles. I've written a piece on my blog about what I consider to be Astor's ten best roles. If you want to read it, just go to the following Link.

http://thepurplediaries.com/2017/01/19/ ... olden-ten/

For Sue-Sue Applegate: I was fortunate in that I was writing about a specific event and not a biography which would have required infinitely more work. Here I am again going quote from the Purple Dairies website in which I detail the writing of the book. At this point in the process, it was not my i...

For Sue-Sue Applegate For the umpteenth time. If you like the book please write a review on Amazon! A lot of people love it but no one wants to put that in writing. LOL 1-She respected Huston obviously because he was the total pro. The man’s acting was always right on target. As he got older it beca...

For Mrs. Osborne You know that is the most interesting question I have been asked since the book came out. Astor really didn’t like talking about her films. She was a woman, even in her last years who lived in the present. In a Life on Film she pretty much said everything that she had to say about h...

For Steve Hayes. I never heard or read about that. It should be understood that Maltese Falcon was considered an OK movie at the time of its release but it gained it’s incredible following over the years helped by the Bogie cult in the 1950s. On the other hand The Great Lie displayed a Mary Astor no...

For Moira Finnie Again; If you like the book, please write an Amazon review. 1-Her acting improved radically after the Court Battle. She had been working at if for quite a long time and had learned her craft. But it was only after she worked with a director like Wyler that she was able to display al...

Regarding Divorce Verses trial.

No, the divorce was in April 1935 and the Custody battle occurred in July-August 1936. A lot of people get confused about this because many writers don’t get it right because they haven’t done their research. This is one of the reasons why I wrote the book.

Regarding Questions about my interest in Astor and feelings about the Kaufman's reaction. 1-Please, write an Amazon review. They are helpful. 2-I always liked her but it was not until I began compiling the material for a conceptual piece that I really became interested. I’m quoting from the book’s w...

Regarding trial and divorce. This is a bit of a story. A tor had wanted to divorce Thorpe as far back as Early 1933 nine months after the baby was born. It is my belief the after the baby was born, the genuine feelings that it drew from Astor put what she really felt about Thorpe into sharp relief. ...

Regarding Kenneth Hawks. Having broken away from her parents dominance Astor finally began making friends and was part of a circle that included Irving Thalberg, Norma Shearer, Frederic March and his wife Florence Eldridge and several others. She also took up with a number of men just to prove that ...

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