Sublime

For a leading lady to bring me a letter from her father-in-law is a new experience. She is married to Michael Attenborough, son of Richard, and when Dickie was in New York recently for the opening of Young Winston I dropped him a note. His reply said it was very sweet of me to offer to look after Jane, adding that he knew I would do this anyway. Th

I was in bed with my leading lady when Princess Alexandra’s sister-in-law telephoned. ‘Oh, dear,’ said the Hon Mrs June Ogilvy, ‘I do hope I am not disturbing you.’ ‘Not at all,’ I hastened to reassure her. ‘I am only deflowering Solitaire.’ And I was, for B-Day Fifty-eight was my big love scene with Jane. Despite the fact that her father-in-law, R

Luisa complains that we always go out with other people and never just on our own, so we had an evening at the pictures and a cosy dinner for two tonight. We went to see Sean Connery in The Offence and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a splendid film with great performances from Sean, Ian Bannen and Trevor Howard. I telephoned Sean afterwards to tell hi

The weather turned suddenly colder today, but the chill in the air warmed under the sunny smile of Gloria Hendry, whose entry into the French Quarter Inn courtyard was straight out of a Bond movie. I can’t remember what colour her dress was; I only know it fitted just below her coffee-coloured skin, and when she walked part of her seemed to move in

Luisa and I are leaving for California; the Broccolis have kindly loaned us their house in Beverley Hills, Hollywood, where I have been asked to present the Oscar for ‘Best Actor’. Without wishing to sound too partisan, I hope I hand it to my mate, Michael Caine, who is nominated for his performance in Sleuth.