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Context: Around this time Christopher Lee was engaged to Henriette von Rosen, a Swedish noblewoman. Her father, Count Fritz von Rosen, was strongly against this marriage prospect and making things difficult at every turn.

"Having seen this wave of [hired P.I.s coming to England] shot down, [Count Fritz] tried a new tactic. As if I were entering domestic service, he asked me to furnish references. Staunch to my love, I swallowed my pride and asked some of my friends to put down a few words about my character.

Douglas Fairbanks gave me a very nice boost.

John Boulting wrote a masterpiece of courtesy which sent Fritz von Rosen into transports of rage, which began: "You must realize, dear Count von Rosen, that actors are no longer rogues and vagabonds."

And the third was from my old friend Joe Jackson, who sent me two with a covering letter saying, "Here is something for your apparently idiot father-in-law." One was signed Nasser, and testified to my being a confirmed rapist and sodomite and the other was orthodox, and signed with his true title, R. L. Jackson, Assistant Commissioner CID."

Source: Lee, Christopher: Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1997), p. 263

Context: Around this time Christopher Lee was engaged to Henriette von Rosen, a Swedish noblewoman. Her father, Count Fritz von Rosen, was strongly against this marriage prospect and making things difficult at every turn. "Having seen this wave of [hired P.I.s coming to England] shot down, [Count Fritz] tried a new tactic. As if I were entering domestic service, he asked me to furnish references. Staunch to my love, I swallowed my pride and asked some of my friends to put down a few words about my character. Douglas Fairbanks gave me a very nice boost. John Boulting wrote a masterpiece of courtesy which sent Fritz von Rosen into transports of rage, which began: "You must realize, dear Count von Rosen, that actors are no longer rogues and vagabonds." And the third was from my old friend Joe Jackson, who sent me two with a covering letter saying, "Here is something for your apparently idiot father-in-law." One was signed Nasser, and testified to my being a confirmed rapist and sodomite and the other was orthodox, and signed with his true title, R. L. Jackson, Assistant Commissioner CID." Source: Lee, Christopher: Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1997), p. 263

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