Mildreds star shone for what seemed like a split second and yet she knew everybody in town and the whole of tinsel town knew Mildred Shay. Adrian, Hollywoods premiere costumer made all her gowns and a pair of false breasts. She worked with, and unlike the rest of Hollywood got on with Joan Crawford despite the fact that as Helene, the French maid to Crystal Allen . At 91, she shows no signs of retirement. Mildred has just recently been photographed alongside Kevin Spacey, Catherine Zeta Jones, Shirley Temple, Kirk Douglas and Stephen Fry for an exhibition of film actors to be held in London and Beverly Hills over Oscar week 2004.
Sailed with her third husband British Army Captain Geoffrey Steele for London on a Norwegian freighter with 300 soldiers on board. The gossip columnists invited readers to place bets on how long the marriage would last.
Her older brother was killed in an accident involving the familys drunken chauffeur.
Although a resident of London, she died while visiting her daughter, Georgiana Steele, in Glendale, California.
(August 2003) Belgravia, London
