My journey ends here...
HYDE Johnny
Ivan HAIDABURA.
Date of birth : April 23, 1895, Russia.
Date of death : December 18, 1950, at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles.
Portrait :
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Place of living : 718 North Palm Drive, Beverly Hills :
Practise: juggler and acrobat, he became artistic agent; vice president of the William Morris, one of the biggest Hollywood agencies.
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Born in Russia.
Coming from the best acrobats family, the Nicholas Haidabura Imperial Russian Troupe.
He spent his first years in Russia and emigrated to the USA in 1906.
He became the agent of Betty Hutton, Bob Hope, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Mickey Rooney, Amos and Andy, Mae West. He ran with an iron grip the best Hollywood agency.
1949 : he was aged 53 and met Marilyn :
- John Carroll introduced him to
Marilyn during a party at the Racquet Club
Resort Hotel in Palm
Springs.
- or they met together during a New Year's Eve at the producer Sam Spiegel's home; at the end of the evening, Hyde would have invited Marilyn to discuss about her career.
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New Year's Eve 1949 at the Racquet Club :
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During the year 1950 he left his wife, Mozelle Cravens Hyde
(actress for Republic Pictures).
He made install leather wall seats in the house of North
Palm Drive where he lived with Marilyn; the dining-room had its own dance floor and Marilyn said that this room was her own Romanoff.
He sent Marilyn to Dr Michael Gurdin,
who retouched her nose and chin; he made her dye her hair in platinum
blonde, ride up the start of her hair and repair a small dental
imperfection. He provided her a new wardrobe and she was, from then on,
seen at his arm in every fashion places : 
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He bought back the contract which linked her to her first agent, Harry Lipton, leaving him a low percentage on the takings, and devoted himself body and soul to Marilyn, to change her in a movie star.
He sought his relations to make her obtain the parts she needed. He convinced Lester Cowan to engage her in his movie with the Marx Brothers "Love Happy"; he organized an audition at the Fox, which gave her a small part in "A Ticket to Tomahawk" (1950). Then he obtained what he wanted above all, a part, small but perfect in "The Asphalt Jungle" of John Huston (1950). He organized a screen-test with the Fox for "Cold Shoulder".He made her easier the access to minor films as "Right Cross" (1950) and "Hometown Story" (1951); he also gave her the opportunity to play in "All About Eve" (1950). He guarantee her a 7 year collaboration with the Fox.
He did all those things for love; but even he asked her to marry him many times, she refused.
She wanted to marry for love and at that time, she loved
On December 17, 1950, he was stroke by a heart attack, while he was at the
He died the next day, December 18, 1950, at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.
Then Marilyn was banished from the house they've lived in together, and
the Hyde family took the clothes and the jewels he had offered to her
back. Even he had informed his lawyers about his wish to leave her one
third of his private property to Marilyn, he hadn't changed his will
and she didn't receive anything.
Although the family had forbidden her to attend the funeral, she was there with
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