well, douglas fairbanks jr. grew up in his father's shadow and wanted more than anything it seems, to prove himself and to do something that was his alone. so, for example when he did go into acting reluctantly, one of the things he did do, shy way from swashbuckling add vench movies. he thought, my dad did that. flying around the stage on rope, sword fighting and all that. he did other things. by and bishgs by, he got sucked into. became swashbuckler adventure films, including things like gunga din. another surprising history. coming out as it did about the time hitler was ready to go into the sedatant land, betrayed by the thuggees became the heroic allies fighting against the thug, the nazis. in a weird way before douglas fairbanks had gotten into the service he had already become something of a war hero. his fame followed him around that became a problem. what he wanted to do in those years was get into the navy. he wanted to become a naval officer. he hadn't been to college. he'd been to a suck suggestion o

crawford's defense, i would say, we weren't smart enough to know we also invited her ex-husband, douglas -- >> fairbanks? >> no, some other one. >> well, i think there was more than one. >> yeah, and they were passing notes back and forth during the dinner, but then the dessert plates came, and cathy douglas is now a very grown-up, very sophisticated lady, but she was very new on the scene then, and so joan crawford, who was seated across the table from mrs. douglas, and joan crawford knew that you're supposed to put the fork and the spoon here and take the finger bowl and the doily and put it here so you can serve your dessert on the clean plate. well, cathy didn't know that. she would have figured it out, but ms. crawford wasn't going to wait for that, so she stood up, this is what you're supposed to do, and so she moved her bowl and her silverware and said, you'll learn how to do that. >> aren't you glad you didn't have the job in the 24/7 news cycle period? ladies and gentlemen, would you please join me in thanking bess abell, laurie firestone, and cathy fenton? >> thank you all. thank you all. rich