She was to reveal the affair in her autobiography but she feared a lawsuit

When I first heard about this couple from someone who worked in Hollywood during the golden era I was at first dumbfounded but then it made sense considering who is involved. The man was a mogul whose name and creations you see everywhere on any given day. The lady was an A-list actress and Oscar winner. Both were married when they first met in the mid 1930s and started their decades long affair. She privately told friends that he was the father she never had.

He had the wife of the unknown followed and even had her sexually assaulted by a group of men to try and get the unknown from following through on his project.

Back in the day this permanent A+++ lister had a ton of money from movies. He started a new venture though and put a ton of his own capital on the line. He thought it would be a massive money maker and he was right, but he was not right in the beginning. Lost to time is the memory that the A+++ lister was competing against an unknown doing the same thing and for much less money.