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Article: He was a sex obsessed drunk who died in squalor and penury. Yet 50 years on, Dylan Thomas is revered as a genius.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2003
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Byline: GLENYS ROBERTS
THE garrulous poet was delighted to meet the young actress Shelley Winters on his first visit to Hollywood. And he was ready with a provocative response when she asked him why he had come to Tinseltown.
'To touch the titties of a beautiful blonde starlet,' came the reply.
'And to meet Charlie Chaplin.' Miss Winters duly allowed him to stroke her breasts with fingers dipped in champagne and then took him to dinner with Marilyn Monroe at Charlie Chaplin's house. But by the time the poet arrived, he was so drunk that Chaplin threw him out.
In a defiant parting gesture, he relieved himself in the potted plant on ...