Kay Thompson (72 page)

(26) With Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli at premiere of
The Yearling,
1946.

(27) With radio producer-director Bill Spier (Kay’s second husband) and Judy Garland the night Judy guest-starred on
Suspense,
November 21, 1946.

(28) With Howard Duff (of Spier’s
Adventures of Sam Spade
) and Ava Gardner, 1948.

(29) Spier directs Lena Horne and Frank Sinatra in episodes of
Suspense,
1944 –45.

(30)

(31) Dreaming of movie stardom, circa 1945.

(32) Self-anointed Balinese princess, 1945.

(33) Hopes dashed: Kay’s cameo role as “The Matron” was cut from
The Kid from Brooklyn,
RKO, 1946. In this lost sequence, she inspected Goldwyn Girls Karen X. Gaylord and Vonne Lester.

(34)

(35) Beverly Hills, November 1948.

(36) Kay and the Williams Brothers (left to right): Bob, Kay, Dick, Don, and Andy (seated below, age 19), 1947.

(37) With the Williams Brothers at Ciro’s, Hollywood, October 1947. Ringsiders: Vincente Minnelli, Judy Garland, and Don DeFore (who later played Mr. B. on TV’s
Hazel
).

(38) Secret lovers: Kay, 38, and Andy Williams, 20, 1948.

(39) Rehearsing with the Williams Brothers, 1948.