Oh my goodness! This Cukor bio has more informatin on my favorite gay historical man of mystery, Alex Tiers!
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Replying to @LeavittAlone
He only ever appears in passing in accounts of other people's lives, he was a billionaire young man from 'back east' who came out of nowhere
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Replying to @LeavittAlone
And like kind of ..tried? To be an actor? And then just had a non stop beach party for 45 years. He was like, Gloria Swanson s close friend
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Replying to @LeavittAlone
And he just pops up in biographies of people at the time, oh Alex gave him, I was at Alex's house, Alex threw a party, etc but no DETAILS
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Replying to @LeavittAlone
importance is that, unlike everyone else in the gay aristocracy of LA, he didn't throw anything anyway, so all his letters got donated
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Replying to @chrisgeidner
Shot I think the ucla center or the ONE Collection, I can check tomorrow for you
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Replying to @LeavittAlone
Letters are my favorite thing. A good collection of letters, well edited, can be such an amazing book.
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Replying to @chrisgeidner
I really enjoyed reading it's the pictures that got small, which is just Charles brackett's fairy of working with billy wilder
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Replying to @LeavittAlone @chrisgeidner
cause bracket is suuuuch a fussy sexless 19th century wasp thrown into late 30s Hollywood
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