12. Charlie McCarthy’s Edgar Bergen and I at a fancy-dress do. Our mothers would never have known us.
13. I aimed for Duke Wayne, but Charles Luckman got in the way.
14. Hedda and the great Hemingway in Havana. We met too late. (Jerome Zerbe photo)
15. Mario Lanza, the great. His voice is silent but you’ll never forget him. He didn’t sing as well as Caruso, but his voice was much sexier. When he’d sold a million copies of his first record, he received one made of gold and insisted that I present it to him. (Photo by Earl Leaf)
16. With Moss Hart and Lady Elsie Mendl at the premiere of his Lady in the Dark. When Moss and I got inside, there were no seats for us.