Tag Archives: Theoni Aldredge

Scene from my Gatsby life: “Hank, how do you spell ‘occulist'”?

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Naomi

Mia was pregnant. The Newport shoot wrapped before her baby bump blossomed fully into Fletcher Previn. Then, what Redford once, semi-sarcastically, termed “the big money, above-the-line” personnel, and the British camera crew and one minor Paramount executive made their various … Continue reading →

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A scene from my life, with cameo appearance by Robert Redford

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Naomi

After the shoot at Marble House, the production took up residence up the road in Gatsby’s mansion Rosecliff, Stanford White’s petite reminiscence of Versailles’s Grand Trianon. Has anybody ever researched whether the inevitable crises which speckle a large-scale production correlate … Continue reading →

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Paths crossed in a scene from my life: Frances Stein

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Naomi

I crossed paths with Frances Patiky Stein a week or so after and on the same turf as I did with Eva Sereny. My reaction was rather different. I was sitting on the parapet of Rosecliff’s terrace gazing out at … Continue reading →

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