Quote of the Day

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I was just looking up the actress Mary Astor a few weeks ago when I watched Dodsworth for the first time. That's her in the 1950s with James Dean above. Well she was born on this day in 1906, and what better way to celebrate than by quoting this passage from her diary (via), regarding her affair with a playwright named George S. Kaufman, which Kenneth Anger excerpted in his infamous Hollywood tell-all Hollywood Babylon. Keep in mind she was quite married to another man that she had children with while all this is going delightful sluttiness on.

"His first initial is G, and I fell like a ton of bricks. I met him Friday. Saturday he called for me at the Ambassador and we went to the Casino for lunch and had a very gay time! Monday—we ducked out of the boring party. It was very hot so we got a cab and drove around the park a few times and the park was, well, the park, and he held my hand and said he’d like to kiss me but didn’t.

Tuesday night we had a dinner at ‘21’ and on the way to see Run Little Chillun he did kiss me—and I don’t think either of us remember much what the show was about. We played kneesies during the first two acts, my hand wasn’t in my own lap during the third. It’s been years since I’ve felt up a man in public, but I just got carried away.

Afterwards we had a drink someplace and then went to a little flat in 73rd Street where we could be alone, and it was all very thrilling and beautiful. Once George lays down his glasses, he is quite a different man. His powers of recuperation are amazing, and we made love all night long. It all worked perfectly, and we shared our fourth climax at dawn. I didn’t see much of anybody else the rest of the time—we saw every show in town, had grand fun together and went frequently to 73rd Street where he fucked the living daylights out of me."

I need to keep a diary and write it in her exact voice - "We had a very gay time!" Indeed. And "Kneesies!" I want some kneesies! In conclusion, I hope there's some sort of golden plaque commemorating all this on 73rd Street.

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