Goldie Fluffer

Goldie Fluffer
Has Hollywood ever produced greater friends than Bette Davis and Joan Crawford? No it has not. I think I’m right in saying that I was married to one or possibly even both of them in the 1950s, and can claim some if not all of the credit for their most famous film. If King Vidor tries to tell you different you just say that Sir Edwin Fluffer calls him a liar. Then knock his hat off and run away.
I brought her inside and poured a stiff brandy which I downed in one, then leapt into action. Joan’s shoe was off in a trice, double bagged, and thrown out with the garbage. The poor darling was still in a terrible state of shock so I insisted she sit down while I had another brandy. Then something happened which changed the world forever: while Joan started helping with the puzzle by separating all the blue pieces which we thought were either the sea or the sky, Bette noticed a script on the table. Kirk Douglas had popped it through the letterbox while he was out walking that filthy dog of his by way of an apology for getting me fired from Spartacus . The idea was that we’d play the warring brothers in Whatever Happened To Tiny Terrence? Bette read it from cover to cover, took out a pen, changed the name in the title to Baby Jane and passed it to Joan saying ‘when do you want to start?’ It was then that disaster struck.
The brandy had all gone by now and as they helped me up I trod on poor Joan’s foot! To make matters worse I insisted she borrow a pair of my shoes to walk home in, and the only thing we could find to match her ballgown was a pair of brogues.
She said they rubbed a little, but stupidly neither Bette nor I thought anything of it. Two days later it was all over the front pages: Joan Crawford Has An In-Growing Toenail! People tried to be kind, but I knew it was all my fault, and to this day I still can’t forgive myself. George Sanders never spoke to me again.
The result was that when they came to film Baby Jane , darling Joan had to shoot all her scenes in a wheelchair.
Even now I can’t watch that picture without wondering what would’ve happened if I’d given her a pair of loafers, or even my moccasins with some spats for extra protection.
The last time I ever saw her she looked at me and said ‘Neddy, don’t hold it against me’, so I stood back a bit and put it away. I once held it against a young Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell punched me in the face, but that’s another story…
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I was doing a jigsaw puzzle with darling Bette one night when the doorbell rang. I opened it to none other than Miss Joan Crawford and straight away from the look on that famous face I could tell what had happened. Kirk Douglas’s dog, Chaplin, had made a mess on the sidewalk and unlucky Joan had stepped right in it!
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"Dropping him off at the airport is his way of exerting control and it's definitely MY way of controlling WHEN and HOW he gets home from his business trips" says Laynie. Laynie, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, is a full time socialite and housewife with a secret known by many. She's a part time prostitute, for the thrill of it. "My first time was after one of our dinner parties. One of my husband's colleagues commented on what a lucky man my husband was, that he would have taken me off the market to if he had met me first!" Laynie says that her husband is so caught up with his own life that he doesn't have time to keep tabs on what Laynie does to keep herself occupied while he's away on business. Noting that he's never even noticed the diamond bracelet she was gifted with after a "quickie" in the pool bath that night with one of their guests.
Laynie says that 70% of her clients are in fact her husband's compeers with the remaining 30% being men she meets in random places like the grocery store, mall or gym to name a few. I have so many questions for Laynie and do not know where to begin but decide on "Why prostitution when she obviously has enough of everything including money and doesn't have to do that and why with her husband's coworkers?" "Because there's a rush I feel when I know I'm doing something dangerous, it's like shop lifting, which I've done numerous times! There's this excitement of knowing that who I'm having sex with either had a meeting with my husband at some point, knows him or just got screwed out of a deal my husband brokered."
A little confused by her frank talk about her behavior, I have to say it almost sounds as if she dislikes her husband and has found a way to get back at him for something he's done. Has he ever cheated on her is my next question and if so, why not leave him versus placing herself and everyone involved in danger. The risk of getting caught couldn't possibly be THAT exciting I say. "I wish he had emotion where I'm concerned, but he doesn't. Let me correct that. He cares about my trainer doing her job and me going to the gym. He cares about what I wear and eat. He cares about our social status oh and he cares that I am the perfect wife and all his needs are met, by someone else. His mistress. He cares quite a bit, but not about WHAT I THINK he should care about." There's my "aha" moment. He has a mistress.
So how does Laynie go about her rendezvous, does she get paid and if so how much? Laynie says that "Once I drop him off at the airport, all bets are off and I'm on my way to what I have set up. He's usually gone 2 -3 weeks, sometimes an entire month." Laynie goes on to say "I always know what he'll be doing, who he's with or where he's going because he marks his calendar with EVERYTHING he has planned, including time spent with his girlfriend. He's sadistic that way, punishing me for putting up with his lack of attention." So Laynie says when he's not around, she does what makes her happy. And being naughty with men in his circle is what does it for her. And of course Laynie gets paid, what a stupid question on my part. Laynie says that she isn't cheap, after all, how many men can say they've just had sex with a millionaires who's up for anything? And she does mean anything as she says "not a thing about sex grosses me out!" And if her session turns into a ménage a trois or an orgy, she's smart enough to pick up "people that don't travel in our circle."
What about STD's and STI's, isn't she afraid of catching something and passing it on? "Condoms! If you don't have one, I have 100!" Laynie says that most everyone she has sex with has at one time or another attended social gatherings she and her husband have hosted. "It's interesting, I look around the table and reminisce about what I've done with most of our guests." Laynie says that she imagines her husband thinks about everything he does with his girlfriend of 5 years as she to is invited to all their social gatherings.
How does everyone keep her secret so her husband doesn't find out and has it ever been more than an affair?
"These aren't lunch or dinner dates I go on Lisi, it's strictly sex! There's no emotional involvement, just sex! In the car, a hotel room, wherever we fancy. These aren't affairs! THAT'S the excitement. And why would they say something to my husband when I would never say anything to their significant others?" She says the safest people to rendezvous with are people that have something to lose. That's WHY they keep each other's secret. Again I say "let go of this empty marriage or can it be fixed?" "Are you insane? Why would I divorce him and clear the way for his girlfriend to be his next wife? Fix? Then all MY extracurricular activities end. Besides, he does his thing and I do mine. It's a win win for everyone, at least for now." Laynie says that she doesn't hate her husband, but does remember a time when it wasn't like this and accepts that this is their relationship now. Not only that, Laynie says that the money she has made as a "working girl" is bearing financial fruit hand over fist in savvy investments.
Laynie says that she and his girlfriend share the same trainer and both get their hair done at the same salon. And her husband pays for it all. Ha! Another "aha" moment! It's making more sense to me now, not that it has to but like listening to an orchestra play Rachmaninoff, Laynie has played me a tune which I understand. I'm not judging, more dumbfounded by Laynie seemingly having the life that at least from the outside looking in, seems to be a life of plenty. But in fact is a life far more complicated and void of what she needs. But then again, I'm not Laynie and that's just what it looks like to me.
Does she desire love, romance and to be in a relationship with a one woman man? No is her answer to all the above. "I volunteer, put together fundraisers, my life is full. And most nights I sleep sideways on my bed because he's not home anyway." Sleeping sideways is the best!
Finishing up lunch at Del Frisco's in The Galleria with Laynie, I feel like she got quite a bit off her chest and I was happy to be her sounding board. I traveled her verbal journey on a day when she wanted me to know how she filled her time when her husband is away. Laynie, you don't owe me let alone anyone out there an explanation. But you do owe yourself something and only you will know what that something is. And I hope you find it. Soon.
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Attended and graduated from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, CA (1965). Sally Field and Michael Ovitz were her classmates.

Favorite actress is Debbie Reynolds .

Was on the bowling and volleyball teams in high school.

Attended Los Angeles City College, where she majored in theatre arts.

Wrote with Penny Marshall before acting with her.

Has 2 children: daughter, Emily Taylor Hudson (b. November 23, 1982) & son, William Zachary "Zach" Hudson (b. April 9, 1986) with ex-husband, Bill Hudson .

Ex-sister-in-law of Mark Hudson and Brett Hudson .

Ex-stepmother of Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson .

Auditioned for the role of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars (1977), which went to Carrie Fisher .

Best known by the public for her role as Shirley Feeney on the sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976).

Attended the "Hollywood Collector's Celebrity Show" at Beverly Garland 's Holliday Inn, in North Hollywood, CA.

In 2000 a senior research fellow at MIT, who also has the name Cindy Williams, wrote an op-ed article submitted to "The Washington Post" in which she questioned a proposed 25% pay raise for the military. Many people since then have incorrectly assumed that the person who wrote the article was this Cindy Williams, not the MIT Cindy Williams, and she has been trying to correct that misconception ever since, which has resulted in her receiving criticism and even hate mail.

Former waitress at the House of Pancakes.

Was cited as one of the most promising movie personalities of 1973 in John Willis' 1974 Film Annual "Screen World" book.

Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. on August 12, 2004.

Attended the LACC Theater Academy. Other alumni include Clint Eastwood , Morgan Freeman , Mark Hamill , Donna Reed and Rene Aranda .

Met ex-husband Bill Hudson at a celebrity softball game in 1981.

As of 2018, has appeared in two films nominated for Best Picture Oscar: American Graffiti (1973) and The Conversation (1974).

Her maternal grandparents were from Catania, Sicily, Italy.

She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: American Graffiti (1973) and The Conversation (1974).

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Cindy Williams was born Cynthia Williams in Van Nuys, California on August 22, 1947. The Leo is 5'4" and, during her first years on Laverne & Shirley (1976), weighed a dainty 105 lbs. The brown haired, blue-eyed female was born the daughter of Francesca Bellini and Beachard Williams. Her family was very poor (her father was an electronic technician), and Cindy grew up not in poverty, but close. She has one sister, Carol Ann Williams , and an older half-brother, Jim from her mother's first marriage. As a child, she dreamed of being an actress. She used to create and perform her own plays and, as she grew, she wished that one day, Debbie Reynolds would see her in one of those amateur shows and whisk her away and put her in a film. Another thing that brought fame to her eyes was her father (who was an alcoholic)'s imitations of comics like Jackie Gleason and Milton Berle . She worked as a waitress, while she auditioned for commercials, television guest spots, and feature films. Her first step to fame was a movie in which she tap danced with Gene Kelly . She also stepped on Mr. Kelly's foot and was "really embarrassed" as she states. She landed important film roles early in her career. First, the famed director George Cukor cast her in Travels with My Aunt (1972). Her next big role was for George Lucas in American Graffiti (1973), as Ron Howard 's girlfriend, for which she earned a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress. That led to Francis Ford Coppola casting her in The Conversation (1974). The three instant-classic films should have propelled her into movie stardom, but her career inexplicably hit a lull. She couldn't go back to working as a waitress, because she was too well-known. So, she was set up in a writing team with Penny Marshall and the girls were called by Penny's brother, Garry Marshall , to do a stint as two fast girls on Happy Days (1974). The public received them so warmly that Cindy soon got her own show (along with Penny) and was referred to everywhere as "Shirley Feeney". She earned a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in 1978. She left the show in '82 due to a pregnancy from husband Bill Hudson who had previously been married to actress Goldie Hawn . She gave birth to daughter Emily and later gave birth to a son Zachary in 1986. She has gone on to make a few movies, help produce "The Father Of The Bride" movies with husband Bill, but they later divorced in 2000. She did Jenny Craig commercials and acted on guest spots on the TV show For Your Love (1998) and reunited with Penny Marshall several times on television. In 2015, her memoir Shirley, I Jest! (co-written with Dave Smitherman) was published.

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