'A gang of us used to meet on weekends, most of them members of The MGM Family,'' wrote actor Hume Cronyn in his 1991 memoir A Terrible Liar. In 1946 Gene Kelly and his first wife, Betsy Blair, bought a modest home at 725 North Rodeo Drive that everyone in their circle would regard as one of the most vibrant social hubs. 'The Kimridge house looked like a hospital ward.' (March 2006)

'I got a hospital bed moved in, with all the concomitant equipment,' Ferrer recalled. But John should have known it and checked before asking her to run the risk.'Īfter finding a bone specialist to treat Hepburn, Ferrer set about transporting the actress back to their Los Angeles home. I knew that Audrey had never had any experience as a rider. She rode out, bareback, and slipped off the horse halfway up a steep hill. Always ready for the most difficult assignments, she had not flinched when Huston-who had almost drowned Gregory Peck during the filming of Moby Dick (1956)-asked her to ride out of a shot on the back of a horse at the end of a scene. 'Audrey's agent and I had gone to Mexico to see the production…we were barely back when I got the fateful phone call. 'Audrey was shooting The Unforgiven (1960), with Burt Lancaster, directed by John Huston,' explained actor and director Mel Ferrer about a location shoot involving his wife, actress Audrey Hepburn, with whom he shared a house on Kimridge Road in Beverly Hills.

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