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The First Assistant Director |
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It happened in the early days of The Patty Duke Show. I glanced in the mirror one morning and said to Nancy Littlefield (then a second assistant director but now New York City's Film Commissioner), "Who's that guy with the blue eyes?" She said, "That's Harry Falk. He's here to see about the first assistant director's job." And I said, "I'm going to marry him." Never mind that he was fourteen years older than me . . .
[We made love] less than two months after we'd started going out. We went to The Sign of the Dove, a very hotsy-totsy restaurant on Third Avenue, where we had a terrific dinner, we drank wine, we drank Black Russians and I have no idea what the man said. Finally, he asked me, "Do you really want to go to a movie?" And I laughed.
We went back to his apartment, and even though I didn't have a clue about what I was doing, one of the things that I'm ever grateful to Harry for is that my first sexual experience was all the nice things it's supposed to be. There was all the nervousness you read about in romantic novels — How do you take your clothes off? Where do you put them? And now what do you do? — but Harry was just wonderful, he never made me feel any more self-conscious than I was making myself feel. And the experience was lovely, it was really lovely. (New York, 1963)
from Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke by Patty Duke with Kenneth Turan (Bantam, © 1987)
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