Gubby Under Pressure

his personal encounters with many of the stars of the silver screen, including Marlene Dietrich, David Niven, Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. No suggestion here that he was needing his sleep ‘desperately badly in order to be in a fit condition to do myself justice’. But that is another story. Managing the show 33