ladies' man

At the age of 22, when he and Maria Marten became lovers, he was the head of the Corder family and had a reputation as a ladies' man.

"Leslie got it, and he was very good, he was the ladies' man, and I was more the hard man," the 91-year-old actor says.

Alfred Hitchcock got to know him socially and Alfred Hitchcock knew the real man and knew that he was nothing like the suave ladies' man that he was on the screen or the clown.

Bailey proved far more simpatico to the prickly Roth, who was famously obsessed with both his literary reputation and also with his reputation as what we might call a "ladies' man."

"His father was, in his words, a 'ladies' man'," says Nathan.