I always enjoy Gordon Dean's letters on famous movie stars and second lead players of the golden years of cinema.

My cousin worked at a famous club and casino in London in the Fifties. Many clubs would have "greeters", famous people who were perhaps down on their luck and fortune spent.

The "greeter" who welcomed people to this particular club in London was none other than George Raft, once famous for playing gangster roles but a couple of bad career moves meant he was no longer in movies.

He had some time before turned down the lead role in Casablanca, taken by Humphrey Bogart - the rest is history.

My cousin said Raft was pleasant and once asked him what happened to his movie millions. He answered, a third went on gambling and drinking, a third on women and the rest I wasted.

Some epitaph.

-Joy Linford, Dallington Road, Hove