Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Mr. X Blind Item #2 - Old Hollywood

When I first heard about this couple from someone who worked in Hollywood during the golden era I was at first dumbfounded but then it made sense considering who is involved. The man was a mogul whose name and creations you see everywhere on any given day. The lady was an A-list actress and Oscar winner. Both were married when they first met in the mid 1930s and started their decades long affair. She privately told friends that he was the father she never had. He told friends that she was terrific in bed and made up for the lack of sex he was getting in his marriage after his wife had bore children. His mistress was present at the premiere of his first big feature film triumph and avoided his wife who was sitting beside her husband the whole night. Did I mention that he wanted her to star in one of his films, which was originally planned to be a live action-animated spectacle. But then a strike with the animators' union ended that idea until he brought it out of mothballs several years without his mistress starring. They still continued their affair and were seeing each other on a regular basis right up u til his death. She was to reveal the affair in her autobiography but she feared a lawsuit by his kids and didn't want to tarnish his his company's wholesome public image.

22 comments:

  1. Tricia1311:47 PM

    Walt Disney/

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  2. Tricia1311:48 PM

    Disney/Vivian Leigh

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  3. sandybrook11:50 PM

    Sounds like the POS

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  4. Dave S.12:21 AM

    Definitely supposed to be Walt Disney, but timing of Vivien Leigh doesn't work, given her affair / marriage to Lawrence Olivier and long periods of time away from Hollywood.

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  5. Dave S.12:23 AM

    Plus Vivien Leigh didn't write an autobiography

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  6. Dave S.12:29 AM

    I say Ginger Rogers. Right age, won an Oscar, was considered for a live-action version of Alice in Wonderland, wrote memoirs, father gone from her life.

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  7. MistyLou12:42 AM

    Norma Shearer for the actress. Father was a manic depressive who wasn't really a father figure.

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  8. Yeah, thinking Disney, the movie being Mary Poppins? Actress, unsure of.

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  9. Norma pretty much gave up acting after she married the studio head. Don't think it's her.

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  10. AndrewBW12:46 AM

    This this is Disney and Vivien Leigh, man, talk about odd couples!

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  11. AndrewBW12:46 AM

    "If" this is Disney . . .

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  12. AndrewBW12:47 AM

    Ginger Rogers I could definitely see.

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  13. Mandalynca12:48 AM

    Joan Fontaine

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  14. MistyLou12:50 AM

    Am I wrong that Walt Disney was supposedly gay??

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  15. MistyLou12:56 AM

    I'm going with Walter Lantz as the mogul.

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  16. MistyLou1:05 AM

    Or Mel Blanc.

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  17. Kno Won Uno1:31 AM

    I think it's definitely Disney, whose brand is ubiquitous.

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  18. Puffy3:05 AM

    Disney. It's ALWAYS the ones that project a "wholesome public image" that are the cheating/lying/stealing/name your vice offenders & hypocrites of all. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

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  19. TopperMadison3:30 AM

    Walt Disney.

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  20. So much interesting stuff today, I had to check to see if it were a holiday. Much better than blind reveal day.

    Compliments to the chef.

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  21. back again8:28 AM

    @H2O, good to know! sooo, i needn't bother going back to read the weekend reveals then,eh? excellent.

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  22. back again8:40 AM

    Marlene Dietrich was at The Opening Of Snow White & The Seven Dwarves in 1937 but she was not photographed NEXT to Walt Disney...
    (of course so was shirley temple..)

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