JackFavell wrote:fantastic! I'll put my thinking cap on and come up with another question or two.
Did you become friends with Gregory Peck on the set of Yellow Sky? or was it later?
Can you tell us some more about your mom and dad?
Greg lived very close to the Riviera Country Club. As many stars did at that time, they came to the club and asked for help with their riding for a coming movie. My father met Greg that way. The polo ponies are so
wonderfully trained and my father had several he would mount the stars on. He and Greg rode together a lot and of course I met him there on a casual basis. Then when I did Yellow Sky we became better acquainted. Most every night in Lone Pine the one and only theater would show a new film for the cast and crew to see. Every night with out fail, I was invited to go with them ie Greg, Richard Widmark, Harry Morgan mostly. Then Greg moved to Mandeville Canyon and had a nice small stable with three of his own horses. The polo was kind of falling apart by then and the groom my father had had for 30 years went to work for Greg taking care of his horses at his house. He was a wonderful, wonderful person. And, another with zero ego. My father would take us to breakfast every Sunday morning at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Always, someone would think my mother was 'somebody' and my father looked so like Richard Dix that people would get angry at him when he told them he was not, especially in a ready made star setting like the Beverly Hills Hotel. My father died at only 55 years old and it was a great loss to me as it is all who have been close to a parent. As polo waned away, my mother became a personal representative for Elizabeth Arden. If they wanted EA to speak or appear somewhere they would send my mother instead. She was so beautiful and of course all thought it was EA cosmetics that did that but alas, she came that way!
Thinking back to the days of stars riding at the club. They were mostly all very nice. However, Burt Lancaster ask my father for a horse to ride on day. He gave him a wonderfully trained, beautiful little mare. He rode her to death. She died within minutes of his bringing her back to the barn. He ran her to death! I can never forget or forgive.
[color=#0000BF][i]Avatar: John Cantarini (Martha's husband) on future world record holder Crazy Kid. He won six in a row
on him.[/i][/color]