Salinger the Card Sharp
Re Pierre Salinger’s Oct. 17 obituary: Mention is made of Salinger’s poker playing. In 1973, we were filming “The Marseille Contract” in Paris that included a poker-playing sequence with Anthony Quinn. The participants included Variety’s Gene Moskowitz, Paris based-novelist James Jones and Salinger, who proved to be a born actor. So much so that director Robert Parrish asked me to write an additional scene for him and Quinn.
He was an accomplished poker player and “cleaned the clocks” of the other players. He was also a delightful raconteur and good guy.
Judd Bernard
Valley Village
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