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David Niven: New York
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After being placed under close arrest for this act of insubordination, Niven claims to have finished a bottle of whisky with the officer who was guarding him and, with the connivance of the latter, escaped from a first floor window. En route across the Atlantic, Niven sent a telegram resigning his commission. Niven relocated to New York, where he began an unsuccessful career in whisky sales and horse rodeo promotion in Atlantic City. After subsequent detours to Bermuda and Cuba, he finally arrived in Hollywood in the summer of 1934.
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It was on the set of the film Bonnie Prince Charlie which was filmed in London, that David met his second wife the Swedish model Hjordis Tersmeden. They married just ten days later in Kensington Registry Office in London. David, his new wife and his two children returned to Hollywood and David went on to star in other films including Enchantment, The Elusive Pimpernel and A Kiss for Corliss which was to be his last film as a contract player. It was at this point in his life David wrote the novel Round the Rugged Rocks. Other films starred in at this time in his life included Happy Go Lovely and Soldiers Three. After a conversation with Dick Powell, Charles Bowyer and a deal with CBS, they agreed to make a series of dramas for television, this was an excellent idea and revived David's weakening career.
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In October of 1951, while pheasant shooting with friends in New England, Hjördis was shot in the face, neck and chest by two of Niven's companions. While convalescing in the Blackstone Hotel in New York, Niven and Hjördis were next door neighbours with Audrey Hepburn, who made her debut on Broadway that season. In 1960, while filming Please Don't Eat the Daisies with Doris Day, Niven and Hjördis separated for a few weeks, though they later reconciled.
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DAVID NIVEN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of The Missing Majority: The Recruitment of Women as State Legislative Candidates (Praeger, 1998) and co-author of Racialized Coverage of Congress: The News in Black and White (Praeger, 2000).
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