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

[muhrp at suffolk.lib.ny.us]

      This sounds very much as if Vallee was suffering from advancing
Alzheimer's-like dementia, of which paranoia & delusional behavior are
well- known symptoms.  Very little was known or understood about this
condition at the time, until Rita Hayworth's diagnosis gave it a celebrity
public face a few years later.  Today, celebrities suffering from
age-related dementia are actively discouraged by staff & family from
making public appearances and statements, for reasons made plain by
Vallee's behavior in his later years.  Although by many accounts, he may
have been an insufferable egomaniac when younger, age-related dementia can
often have the effect of exaggerating a sufferer's earlier behavior &
personality, so that they often become a characterture of themselves. 
Sometimes just the opposite happens.  In retrospect, I think it explains
Vallee's later behavior.
Peter Muhr
 
> Just one more note,  pertaining to the original post today about Vallee. 
> Late in life he became convinced that he had been betrayed and dishonored by 
> just about everyone he'd ever known...and he wrote crude and angry letters 
> to many of these poor folks,  expressing his displeasure.  He also made 
> multiple copies of all of them,  and I recall seeing no less than forty 
> copies of a nasty multi-page letter he wrote to Dorothy Lamour...and at 
> least a dozen copies of her hurt and bewildered and polite reply to him.
> 
> Taylor
>