In fact, he said in an interview that he had suffered from depression almost all of his adult life and started going to psychotherapy as a young man. He was also an alcoholic (abstinence), smoked tobacco (a pipe and everything 😏), and morphine, and was well known on the Hollywood party circuit. Apparently, he had left ALL that (and his marriage too) shortly before meeting Andrews. He said he really couldn't have kept himself clean without her help. Of course, it is not surprising that the bad treatment he suffered from the studios made his depression problems worse. In addition to his two emotional crises: the one of middle age and the one of fear of aging (in his own words).

@@joyk555 what I was really hoping for was a biography that talks a lot about his earliest days his childhood and formative years but this doesn't show any of that

@@gardensofthegods It seems to me that a previous part is missing here.

same apparently Julie and Blake didn’t want them to be shown on screen to much since they were so young.

The Party seemed to be okay at the box office; it doubled its budget.

Yeah, it did okay.

Frog here