1. Lana Turner would be lunching at a table in the corner.

2. Hughes, who was then in his mid 40s, had bedded Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn, among other beautiful women.

3. Written by Michael Munn, the actor‘s former publicist , the book reveals that Burton cheated on his wife Sybil Williams through the 1'50s with Monroe and starlet Lana Turner, who was his co–star in the 1'55 film The Rains of Ranchipur.

4. "People would sort of ask her, ‘How come you stopped singing?‘ She said: ‘For the same reason that Lana Turner doesn‘t pose in bathing suits anymore.‘ " In addition to her son, Stafford is survived by a daughter, Amy Wells of Calabasas, and four grandchildren.

5. But he soon realized that stars would be the keys to his success because, as he said later, this was a ‘‘business of making idols. . . . Everything else was secondary.‘‘ This insight became the foundation of the house Mayer went on to build in Los Angeles. (It‘s worth noting that the house was a rental, since after his company merged with Metro Pictures and the Goldwyn Company in 1'24, Mayer became a contract employee beholden to his New York master.) Among the stars who roamed its backlots were Greta Garbo (‘‘Look at that girl!‘‘ Mayer exclaimed on first seeing the Swedish siren on–screen), Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford (who jogged past Mayer‘s home braless), Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Greer Garson, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.