The Million Dollar Mermaid [antikvár]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thank you, Digby Diehl, for having organized my free associations into a manageable manuscript of remembrances so that the reader can place one foot in front of the other without tumbling down the rabbit hole of memory. George Feltenstein and Roger Mayer, thank you for the generosity of your library and your encouragement. Dear Chuck Adams, you believed there was a book in me. Claire Gems, my intrepid friend, whose skills as a diplomat and an agent kept the project running smoothly—sometimes. Kay Diehl, for your support. Nan Breckenridge, who listened to and transcribed the many hours of tape. Michael Brarson, who shared his library and his knowledge of motion-picture history. My dear friends at Turner Classic Movies, Bob Osborne, Tom Karsch, Jim Weiss, and Justin Pettigrew, for keeping all of us eternally young. Alvin Ramrus and Alleen Morris Ramrus, for your minds, your hearts, your endearing and enduring friendship. Thanks to the staffs of the Pasadena Public Library and of the Margaret Herrick library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for keeping so many pictures I forgot I took. And to you, Edward, this is all because of you. I love you.