Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s by Cari Beauchamp

Author:Cari Beauchamp [Beauchamp, Cari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-23T04:00:00+00:00

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MARCH 10, 1926

Dear Irma,

It’s some time since I’ve written to you and I have so much to tell you that I don’t know where to start, and if I do tell you everything, I’m afraid you will grow weary reading of my personal affairs.

There isn’t much going on at the studio. Mr. Goldwyn is still in New York. Henry King is back and he is making trips down to Imperial Valley and environs hunting locations for Barbara Worth. Fitz is over on the Pickford-Fairbanks lot where he is making “The Son of the Sheik” with Valentino and Banky and of course I don’t get to see him at all anymore.

No doubt you have read about the Negri-Valentino affair. I used to admire Valentino quite a bit, but I certainly don’t admire his choice. Did I ever tell you what Hergesheimer told me about Pola? (By the way, read Hergesheimer’s article covering his trip to Hollywood in the Saturday Evening Post — it goes quite into detail about stars, etc) You know he and I were very chummy and we used to talk by the hours about everything — however, mostly love, since he’s quite an authority on the subject.19 In the course of conversation he told me about Pola having a suite up at Del Monte where she entertained Chaplin privately in her apartment and believe they lived for awhile together there. Then, in Hergesheimer’s words, “after her affair with Chaplin cooled off and Rod La Rocque was bewitched, if she didn’t have the audacity to bring Rod to the very same apartment — in fact in the very same bed — where she had just previously had Chaplin. That, in my judgment, was unpardonable — the least she could have done was to have Rod in a different suite of rooms. However, that is Pola for you — brazen. If I had been Rod I would have left her then and there — but poor fool was only a toy in her hands and let himself be juggled about as she wished and utterly helpless.”

This may sound crude to you, but you know authors, and in fact all artistic people, talk about things in such a simple, natural way that you cannot possibly take offence at the things they say. Hergesheimer occasionally would say things that would shock me a little. But I didn’t dare let him know. He also told me about various types of women (and he seems to understand them pretty well) and all about Aileen Pringle and the Gish girls and ever so many other stars. By the way, here’s another bit of dirt about Aileen Pringle. For quite a long time she and the art director at MGM lived together, then for business reasons the art director had to go to New York and this same art director came back from New York with a twenty year old girl whom he married in Hollywood and Aileen was the bride’s maid — big hearted Aileen.

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