Her gift was exposure to a world that wasn’t provincial. Mrs Kaiser gave me something that wasn’t tangible, which was that she included me in her glamorous, sophisticated world – and this meant that later, when I met Connie, I could go to dinner with Jimmy Stewart and Audrey Hepburn and take it in my stride. What gifts did they give you, beyond the obvious material things? The other is Connie Wald, an LA society hostess. There are two older women in the book who befriend you. I kept asking myself: why did I do that? What was I thinking? Above all, in the case of Oleg Cassini, why did I go on working for him afterwards? They were men who sometimes behaved badly and selfishly, without too much thought – but also, wonderfully But there were still aspects of writing the book that were humiliating and certainly embarrassing. Since then, I’ve changed, and the culture and the system have changed. I had never talked about or even told anyone about the Oleg Cassini rape before, partly because I blamed myself. Some reviews have suggested that I used the #MeToo movement to go public. He always used to tease me and call me Miss Discreet.ĭoes the young Susanna feel like you or does she seem like a different person? This is the first time I’ve ever written about Jack or even acknowledged our relationship. I was fearful of the accusation of name-dropping. Why did you wait so long to write a memoir? I spent the first nine weeks not once in the presence of another human being, but I grew to like it: the tranquillity and the silence. I have this strange, non-contagious form of TB, which I got in India from mould, so I’m high risk. I’m in Martha’s Vineyard, with my daughter and grandchildren.
Where have you been spending the lock down? There she was a script reader for Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson – and met her second husband, Richard Sylbert, the Oscar-winning production designer of such films as Chinatown and The Graduate. In her new memoir, Miss Aluminium , she tells the story of how she escaped an unhappy childhood, working first as an assistant in the New York department store Bergdorf Goodman and then as a model, before winding up in Hollywood. Born in 1945, she grew up in Hawaii and now lives in New York. S usanna Moore is the author of seven novels, among them the 1995 thriller In the Cut, which was made into a film by Jane Campion.
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