The Scarborough College N.Y. tennis player into “Slim’s” Howard Hughes “hurdy gurdy”. Noah Dietrich’s Bel Air Bellagio Road Ca. posse…….
Although Frank Capra invited the cream cheese bandit to the annual Beverly Hills tennis club baseball game, the bandit in his eventual bullying role (hearing the Tilden High School basketball coach ringing his cauliflower spread “You’re not a team player. You’re out for yourself .Six man off the Junior Varsity bench…be grateful for small favors”
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So instead the cream cheese bandit was outside looking in…“Bogy” Humphrey Bogard, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Budge Patty, Arthur MARx ( Groucho’s son(, “The Male Animal’ Elliot Nugent, President Ernest Pascal, Ray Stark, Jerry Wald, Nat Perrin, Cy Howard (“My Friend Irma”) George Willner, Robert Blumoffe, (Sir) Arthur Gilbert, once of London’s Golders Green, Billy Wilder, Phil Gersh, Irwin Gelsey MGM’s Joe Cohen, Lefty Willner, Herby Flam, NormanKrasner (wedded Al Jolson’s widow), Harold Buchman,, Albert Marx, Jack Cushingham,(“pros”) “Pancho” Segura, Bill Gargan, (not the Park Slope Brooklyn College librarian Bill Gargan)Greg Bautzer.Marty Melcher (Doris Day’s ‘H’, mgr) GeorgieKaufman, dentist Jules Gladstone , Robert Rossen (“All the King’s Men”) John Ireland, (Joanne Dru)….Ronie Lubin, once of Boyle Heights (East L.A.)
Willie Wyler, Cary Grant, (Archie Leach) , Gig Young, Don Castle, Sam Spiegel, Michael Blankford, Harold Preacher,Sidney Chaplin, Alan Curtis, Budge Patty, Horace McCoy, Willie Wyler, Harold Hecht, Arthur Drumett…Gilbert Roland (“Amigo”)., Sonny Fotre, Solly Biano, Bill Orr, Sidney Harmon, Nick Conte, Travis Kleefeld, Jennings Lang (Walter Wangershootout)….”Mister Lucky” Milton Holmes(mgr)…..Albert Brocolli…Dale Wasserman…..Willie Shore (Billy Wilder’s stand in) Allan Joslyn Kent Taylor (“Boston Blackie”) Travis Kleefeld aka Tony Travis (Dinah Shore’s protégé), Harold Willens (Al Slivers, brother in law) , Dave Leans, once of Gibraltar’s Island (brother Jay)
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And Milo Frank, Ann Frank’s kin, Eleanor Roosevelt’s dedication.
