First of all, hats off to one of my favorite blogs: The Automat | In which the unqualified gentleman looks at art. And, thank you Mr. Whittington for reminding me about Mr. Niven’s wonderful autobiography. Ernst Lubitsch… wanted me to start immediately at Paramount in a very good part in “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife with Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert. Working with Lubitsch in the company of such professional experts and such privately wonderful human beings as Gary Cooper and Claudette […]

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