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- Tommy_Manville abstract "Thomas Franklyn Manville, Jr., universally known as Tommy Manville (April 9, 1894 – October 9, 1967), was a Manhattan socialite and heir to the Johns-Manville asbestos fortune. He was a celebrity in the mid 20th Century, by virtue of his large financial inheritance, and his 13 marriages to 11 women. This feat won him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, and made him the subject of much gossip. His ninth wife Anita Manville wrote a biography, The Wives and Lives of Tommy Manville, which was seen as the inspiration of the camp musical, Lucky Wonderful: 13 Musicals About Tommy Manville by Jackie Curtis. He was probably the model for Gary Cooper’s character in the 1938 motion picture Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. Manville is also mentioned in Irving Berlin’s song What Chance Have I With Love ("Tommy Manville's love is not returned/He sells asbestos and he has learned/That with asbestos he still gets burned") and in many other passing pop culture references and metaphors.Manville was considered something of a clown (an image he cultivated with his public persona – part bon vivant, part hapless tool of women) but was also sneakily admired for his number of conquests and his extravagant bank account. At the time of his death it was estimated that Manville spent more than $1.25-million on marriage settlements. The termination of his marriages usually ended in widespread publicity and huge cash settlements.If Manville took pride in his ability to select beautiful young blondes to become his wives, he was equally pleased with the head of gray hair that marked him for more than a quarter of a century. He once asked friends on the New Rochelle Police force to call him "grand pappy" because of his hair, and he reportedly gave each man $2 when a patrol car responded to a summons to his estate "Bon Repos" in the gated waterfront community of Premium Point off Long Island Sound in New Rochelle, New York.While he reveled in the publicity surrounding his marriages, Manville sought privacy on his estate. He equipped it with burglar alarms, peephole doors, armed guards, a public-address system, radio in every room and 20 telephones. He called the estate his fortress and often wore two heavy pistols at his belt.In June 1967 while Manville was in Doctors Hospital, three gunmen wearing black masks invaded his estate and stole an undetermined amount of cash, jewelry, furs and clothing. Manville had been in ill health for several years, and his 11th wife, the former Christina Erdlen, was with him at the hospital when the estate was robbed.Thomas Franklyn Manville Jr. took 11 wives in 13 marriages; he remarried twice and was divorced from 10 of them a total of 11 times. Once he was widowed. This extraordinary cycle of marriage and divorce was his only claim to celebrity. The son of the founder and chairman of the Johns-Manville Corporation used marriage as a means of personal publicity. In a story appearing under his name in the American Weekly magazine in 1936, he made sport of his marital propensities and pledged that his next wife would be a blonde – almost any blonde. The next year he took full page advertisements in New York newspapers, publicly seeking a new lawyer to represent him in family disputes. According to his own account, Mr. Manville did not get on well with his father from an early age. He said that his father repeatedly disinherited him but relented as often and finally willed him enough money for life.".
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- Tommy_Manville comment "Thomas Franklyn Manville, Jr., universally known as Tommy Manville (April 9, 1894 – October 9, 1967), was a Manhattan socialite and heir to the Johns-Manville asbestos fortune. He was a celebrity in the mid 20th Century, by virtue of his large financial inheritance, and his 13 marriages to 11 women. This feat won him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, and made him the subject of much gossip.".
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