[78-L] Rudy Vallee writes about SEX! SEX! SEX!

[Michael Biel]

From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> Maybe it should Thousand Gropes. 
> I didn't see such a list when I was researching there some years ago.
> Perhaps Jeannette Berard, who is the curator there, can enlighten us.
> I did, however, see carefully categorized ethnic jokes so he could tell
> his racist stories geared toward whatever group he was entertaining at
> the time. Sure would like to look at those nasty letters he wrote to
> Ozzie Nelson again!    Cary Ginell


I didn't remember he had a grudge against Ozzie, but he was brutal
against Victor Borge in his third autobiography.  I wonder if there is
any documentation about that there.  According to the book Vallee was
using Borge for his warm-up but felt that his program was not as
advantageous for Borge's style as would Bing Crosby's.  So he suggested
that Bing put Borge on and he was a SENSATION.  Vallee was royally
pissed off that Borge was not openly thankful to Vallee for suggesting
him to Bing, that all that was written about was that he made his
American broadcast debut on Bing's show.  I've never seen anything as
nasty in print as that section Vallee wrote about Borge.  I would love
to know Borge's take on this, but I was much too intimidated to ask
Borge when I met him.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
 
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:30:39 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Rudy Vallee writes about SEX! SEX! SEX!
> 
> Somewhere I have a videotape of one of his last TV appearances, on a
> program like Merv Griffin or Mike Douglas where with a voice raspy with
> throat cancer he discusses the fact that he had slept with over a
> thousand women and HAS A WRITTEN LIST. Have they ever found THAT in his
> archive in the Thousand Oaks Library? And, perhaps, is Thousand Oaks
> named after Rudy's thousand conquests???!!! 
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> 
> 
> You don't know the half of it. Visitors to his home were treated
> (forcibly) to 
> pathetic displays of Rudy singing or lip-synching his entire musical
> past. And 
> apparently the house was filthy (as was his night club act). This I know
> first 
> hand from a researcher in Toronto who set up a couple of interviews with
> Vallee 
> for TVOntario.
> 
> dl
> 
> Jason Beard wrote:
> > After reading the lengthy discourse of Mr. Vallee's il-LUST-rious career, it would seem to me that it is the rambling of someone who desperately wanted to cling to whatever remnants of his career he possessed. Intoxicated while writing the note? High on himself, perhaps...and maybe a little higher on his liquidity of choice.....in other words.....
> > 
> > "WHAT????????????????????????????????????"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ________________________________
> > From: Harold Aherne <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
> > 
> > Kudos to a poster at another board I read for pointing this out: a letter from 
> > Rudy Vallee written in 1980, proposing a new album and obviously written when he was
> > drunk or otherwise impaired--but fascinating nonetheless:
> > 
> > http://thesilentmovieblog.wordpress.com/
> > 
> > Sounds like a swell guy.
> > 
> > -Harold
> > 
> > 
> >