House of Shaw

[ckaratnytsky at nypl.org]

     Paul Mackin quotes:
     
     >Don Larsson says:
     
     >When Ava Gardner sought a divorce
     >from him on grounds of "Mental Cruelty," she testified:
     >"He made me *read*!  He made me read THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN!!  I thought 
     >I'd never fi nish that damned book!!!"
     
     And wonders:
     
     >Wonder if Kathleen Windsor made Artie read _Forever Amber_.
     
     >Weren't those two married for a brief period, or am I misremembering?
     
     
     Yep.  Artie married the lovely Kathleen (but, no "d" in Winsor) in 
     1946.  She's still alive.  There's a clip in her file here that 
     includes a pic of her in elbow-length gloves, fishnet stockings and 
     a strapless evening gown.  She's lounging on a leopardskin couch, 
     smoking a cigarette in a foot-long holder.  The title of the piece 
     is "Kathleen Winsor: stranger than her fiction."  Indeed.
     
     Chris