Charles Greville
Toronto Daily Star, February 5 1938
Charles Guy Fulke Greville (1911-1984), the seventh Earl of Warwick, was offered a film contract by MGM in 1936, but was dropped after six months. Paramount signed him in 1938 and he starred in Dawn Patrol using the stage name of Michael Brooke. He appeared in a few other movies that year and was then dropped again. While in Hollywood, he dated Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Paulette Goddard, among others.
The earl returned to England just before the Second World War, opening his ancestral home, Warwick Castle, to evacuees when Coventry was bombed. After the war, he bought homes in Switzerland, Italy, and France and divided his time between them, basically doing rich people stuff. He left England in 1969 to avoid income tax; his son sold Warwick Castle to Madame Tussauds, which led to a public disagreement between them.
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