Yesterday I received my copy of the book DUELING HARLOWS - DR J TCB if you search on Amazon, you can look inside....I just posted the photo.
It is most entertaining......but there is NOT really enough material there for an entire book....at least as written.
I learned a few new things.....and the recent interviews with Carol Lynley and the AD of her film and the AD of Carroll Baker's film are a lot of fun.
He was not able to interview Carroll Baker, she declined......so a lot of what she thought comes in the form of quotes from her autobiography BABY DOLL......so I was familiar with all of that material.
Of course she has always claimed to be the soul of professionalism - this was contradicted by the AD who was assigned to her. Tim (son of Fred) Zinneman says that she made his life hell....the she was an out of control diva.....and completely manic on the set. I was ready to dismiss his claims as lunatic, when author Tom Lisanti included this single sentence:
"Baker's lateness and absences cost the production $58,113.99."
I guess she wasn't quite as professional as she remembered in her book.