"often mentions , another subject included in The Sound of Silence. I share his enthusiasm for this star of silent and early talking pictures. When I was under contract to in 1929, Anita was the darling of the lot, MGM's young glamour girl. She was everyone's favorite, and I shall never forget her kindness to me. Warm and outgoing from my first introduction to her, she invited me to her birthday party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel — a dinner-dance on the famous Roof Garden. For one starry-eyed guest it was some enchanted evening."