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It was 1935. Flame-haired Teddy Lynch finished singing Alone Together at the swanky nightclub the New Yorker and left the stage to find a charming stranger at her friends table. It was Jean Paul Getty, enigmatic oil tycoon and Americas first billionaire.In her passionate, unflinchingly honest memoir of two outsize lives entwined, Theodora Teddy Getty Gastonnow one hundred years oldreveals the glamorous yet painful story of her marriage to Getty. As formidable as he was, Teddy was equally strong-minded and flamboyant, and their clutches and clashes threw off sparks. She knew the vulnerable side of Gettyhe underwent painful plastic surgery and suffered terrible phobiasthat few, if any, saw.A vivid love story, Alone Together is also a fascinating glimpse into the twentieth century from the vantage point of one of its most remarkable couples.
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Theodora "Teddy" Getty Gaston, born in Chicago in 1913, began singing at the age of sixteen in the chorus of J. J. Shubert's Arms and the Maid and, in the twenties, performed as a torch singer in New York's most prestigious supper clubs. She studied opera in Europe and worked for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II. After a long romance, she married J. Paul Getty, with whom she had one child. During their eighteen-year marriage, Teddy acted in Forgotten Women and Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, and she started a water company, a candy company, and a children's charity in her son's name. In 1990, she wrote her first book, The Mark of the Eagle.
