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Hace 1 día · The 500-odd pages of Kingmaker feel refreshing and timely as certain records are set straight — although this book arguably also throws up as many questions as it answers. Purnell, whose ...
Hace 3 días · In the late 1950s, she moved on to America where she met and married Broadway producer Leland Hayward, who had brought The Sound of Music into the world.
Hace 2 días · The transformation of Pamela Digby. The tramp of lovers marching through our heroine’s bedroom in the first half of Sonia Purnell’s Kingmaker almost deafens the reader. But then not for nothing did Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman become known as the alpha courtesan of the 20th century. What is perhaps not so well covered is her ...
Hace 6 días · Leland Hayward, a Broadway and Hollywood producer and agent, was an unlikely choice for husband number two, as he had nothing to do with politics, Pamela’s enduring interest. But he swept her off her feet with his American enthusiasm. Also, she recalled, “there was something very vulnerable about [him] that attracted me enormously.”
Hace 2 días · She dated Leland Hayward III, who was 24 at the time, in the early '90s, but they split soon after becoming engaged. A couple of boyfriends later, when Barrymore was 17, she started dating Jamie Walters, who was 23 at the time. Barrymore and Walters got engaged, ...
Hace 1 día · Inevitably, Harriman ruffled feathers. But the disdain of such people as Nancy Mitford, Slim Keith, Marella Agnelli, Brooke Hayward, and her sister-in-law Mary Churchill (who referred to her as ...
Hace 4 días · This rich trove would be reason alone to revisit the woman variously called Spam, “that redheaded tart” and — by Leland Hayward, her second husband — La Bouche, for her skill at fellatio.
