![]() The next parental adventure didn’t go as well and ended up with Gary being booted from our snooty private club. Mummy went as Marylin Monroe in How to Marry a Millionaire and Bette went as, well, Bette Davis. I remember my mother donning a blonde wig and a Charles James dress to go to a “come as a movie star” party at the club with the Merrills. My father and Gary were golf and drinking buddies and members of the Portland Country Club. The two fell madly in love and Bette married Gary, the last of her four husbands. ![]() Others in the film included Marylin Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm. ![]() Merrill appeared in many films including the iconic All About Eve, which starred Bette Davis. Bette married Gary in 1950 and she dutifully moved to Cape Elizabeth, Maine to be with him and bring up their two children for nearly ten years. Mummy was proud but, later in life, I was told Bette wasn’t amused. ![]() I had a starring role while Bette’s son Michael, who she adopted with the actor Gary Merrill, played a secondary one. We were all backstage at the Wynflete School in Portland, Maine after our school play. Merrill, the mother of one of my schoolmates. My mother introduced me not to the legendary star but as Mrs. I first met Bette Davis when I was a toddler. ![]()
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