When Audrey first arrived in New York to play the part of Gigi, she took a room at the Blackstone Hotel. Her neighbour was none other than David Niven, who was rehearsing for the Broadway show Nina, set to open within a week of Gigi. For Ian Woodward's biography, Niven remembered Audrey and I shook with fear as our opening nights on Broadway drew inexorably nearer. I think we met when a body crashed down from the eighteenth floor and bounced off Audrey's windowsill... she rushed into our room... our grisly beginning ripened into a long, long friendship.