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The Oldie

The Old Un’s Notes

Stanley Price (19312019), the playwright and screenwriter, had many lucky encounters.

His witty stories, which all appeared in The Oldie, have been collected by his son Munro Price into a delightful book My Lunch with Marilyn and Other Stories.

As a young reporter at Life magazine in the 1950s, he escorted Marilyn Monroe to lunch; took on 12-year-old Bobby Fischer at chess (he lost); and met Ernest Hemingway and Noel Coward, while they were in Cuba filming Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana. He is pictured (right) on a 1964 photo shoot for Time magazine with Mandy Rice-Davies, of Profumoaffair fame, as Fanny Hill. Stanley is posing as an elderly hair fetishist.

Ari aspiring actor in his schooldays, Stanley watched an assured Harold Pinter playing Macbeth at Hackney Downs School. A year later, in his first year at Cambridge, Stanley

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