Das' remarks and research are impeccible and excellent as usual. They
represent accomplishments in Ollie's life and career. Being put to
canvas by the respected members of the artistic community whose work
is admired today is to be viewed with awe.

Unfortunately, it is a double edged sword that continues to haunt (no
pun intended) Ollie's reputation today.

One of the great irritants in Jack and Ollie's marriage was the
constant charges and countercharges of infidelity. It was one of the
reasons that they FOUGHT in intensity just short of hand to hand
combat (this time, pun intended!) Think how angry Jack must have been
to know that his wife's nude portrait was on a former lover's wall,
especially when she traveled to Florida when he was still in the brig
in 1918! Is it any wonder that the Pickfords disapproved and felt
Jack married below his position?

Ollie's painful and failed affair with Flo Ziegfeld and previous
flirtations with other men (including a cancelled engagement) often
led to hurtful rumors of what she would and would not do to further
her career especially by those who were envious of Ollie's acclaim.

As a friend of someone who posed nude in the early sixties, she
recalled one of her most painful memories is of the rebuke she took
from women who viewed her as a whore and men who treated her badly
because she was not the woman of easy virtue of their fantasies. This
eventually caused her to be left at the altar on one occassion.

Today, Ollie is also remembered for her beauty captured for her best
artists of her day. It also partly the root of the suggestion that
Ollie participated in every orgy short of the burning of Rome even in
accounts today.

Your partner in limburger.