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Greg Bautzer Profile
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| (Gregson Edward Bautzer) |
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| 3 April 11 | is born in California. His mother’s maiden name is Buckoudt. |
| ? | gets a law degree |
| 38 | meets aspiring actress Lana Turner; she will later claim he was her first love |
| becomes engaged to Lana, but she breaks it off to marry bandleader Artie Shaw |
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| c. 39 | is so in love with actress Dorothy Lamour |
| becomes engaged to Lamour, but WWII interferes with their romance when she meets handsome captain Bill Howard during one of her cross-country tours, to set a record for war bond sales. She will marry Howard in 1943. |
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| September 40 | arranges Lana’s divorce from Shaw |
| April 44 | when Lana sues husband number two, Steve Crane, for divorce, Bautzer represents her |
| ? | begins representing billionaire Howard Hughes in movie matters |
| ? | marries 19-year-old Buffy Cobb Chapman |
| c. 45 | divorces Chapman, who will soon start dating Victor Mature |
| c. 45 | has an intense and much publicized affair with Joan Crawford. Bautzer will be immortalized as "Uncle Greg" in the 1981 biographical film, Mommie Dearest. |
| December 46 | rumors fly that he may be Joan Crawford’s next husband |
| 48 | dates Ginger Rogers after her divorce from Jack Briggs. He represents her legally, too. |
| December 49 | works on Ingrid Bergman’s divorce from Dr. Aron Petter Lindström |
| October 50 | there are rumors that he has split up with Ginger Rogers |
| ? | is briefly engaged to aspiring starlet Barbara Payton |
| May 52 | is out with actress Terry Moore at Romanoff's. Soon he asks her to choose between him and his client, Howard Hughes. |
| c. 52 | is the love interest of actress Jane Wyman |
| November 53 | attends a party thrown by John Carroll and Lucille Ryman, with Mari Blanchard |
| August 55 | at Cobina Wright’s cocktail party in honor of Madame Wellington Koo, he gets the telephone number of English newcomer Dana Wynter |
| 10 June 56 | marries 25-year-old Berlin-born actress Dana Wynter in Carmel, California |
| June 56 | the Bautzers enjoy their honeymoon in Honolulu, while Greg’s hometown friends bid for his little black book, with all those lovely phone numbers |
| December 57 | offers a reward of 300 pounds for the return of the little Yorkshire that he gave to Dana |
| 29 January 60 | his son, Mark Ragan Bautzer, is born |
| 61 | represents Howard Hughes in the sale of TWA |
| 64 | separates from Dana Wynter |
| June 65 | is out with Dana Wynter |
| 70s | is a partner with Los Angeles’ Wyman, Bautzer, Christensen, Kuchel & Silbert |
| 81 | divorces Wynter |
| ? | represents investor Kirk Kerkorian in his takeover of MGM |
| ? | marries Nicola “Niki” Dantine, daughter of Nicholas M. Schenck, the former president of Loew’s Inc. She was formerly married to Austrian-born actor Helmut Dantine, with whom she had two children. |
| 26 October 87 | dies at age 76 of heart failure at his Beverly Hills home while dressing to go to work. His wife, Nicola D. Bautzer, survives. |
| is interred in Los Angeles |
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| Sources: The Brown Derby Restaurant by Sally Wright Cobb and Mark Willems, The Bashful Billionaire by Terry Moore, www.IMDb.com, Screen Stories, Empire by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, Photoplay, The Hollywood Reporter, Screenland, Modern Screen, www.Ancestry.com | |
| Recommended Books: The Man Who Seduced Hollywood by B. James Gladstone | |
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