[on his friendship with
David Janssen after working on
Lafayette Escadrille (1958)] Janssen was the oldest and most sophisticated member of the cast, and I was the youngest and least sophisticated. Over the years we would run into each other at parties or restaurants, and our friendship would last until his premature passing. Years after the film ended, I was having lunch with a prominent banker, as I was in deep trouble getting financing for a big, complicated real estate project. Into the restaurant walked David. Before I saw him coming, David was in our booth with his arm around me, telling Lafayette Escadrille stories. Needless to say, at long last I got my project financed.
