Soon, though, the two worlds merged. Swanson sent her daughter, "Little Gloria," to a Halloween party at the Kennedy home in New York, and later, both mother and daughter visited the Kennedys at Hyannis Port in Massachusetts.
"Kick was intrigued to meet the daughter of the world's most famous movie star ... she liked her new friend."
Years later, Kick also met 13-year-old Maria Sieber, Dietrich's daughter, when the two families were holidaying at the famous Hotel du Cap in the south of France.
Sieber recalled spending time with the Kennedy children but stopped visiting them once their parents began an affair. "I didn't want any one of his family to feel uncomfortable," she said, according to Byrne.
Byrne portrays Joe Kennedy as not just a philanderer, but a bit of a lech who made inappropriate overtures to his daughter's teenage friends.
"Some of them refused to watch movies in the basement cinema because he would touch them and pinch them," she writes.
