It's been a little quiet lately... well, more than a little. Things have been
crazy the past few weeks... and there's no real news, but here's something
anyway:
I finally got to see Two Sisters from Boston the other day. It's Peter's first
movie with both Kathryn Grayson and Jimmy Durante. It's fluff but it's
entertaining. Peter's character in it reminds me an awful lot of Frank
Sinatra's charactor in Anchors Aweigh. I especially liked the scene where he
was carrying June Allyson around. I remember reading somewhere that he couldn't
stand her; anybody know why? They sure made quite a few movies together.
Other note: so far as Esther Williams' new book, if you're looking for mention
of Peter in it, all she says is that she worked with him, and that he at one
point slept with Lana Turner, but according to Esther, so did everyone else.
Maybe it's a good thing she didn't have much to say about him--not that I'm the
sort of person to deny that any of my favorites had problems, but with all the
bad stuff that's been said about him, maybe a little silence is a good thing.
I'm guessing he didn't make an impression on her either way--she writes a lot
about the people she loved working with, and a lot about the ones she hated,
too. Or maybe she didn't think anyone who would read her book would remember
him, I don't know. The rest of it's interesting...

--Kitty