Venona II was built in Wiscasset, Maine to the lines of design number 280, and in the early 1930s she went to Los Angeles, California, where she was bought by actor Dana Andrews, and was converted to a cutter. Eventually renamed “True Love,” she went on to become a movie star, with her 1940 movie debut (minature model) in The Philadelphia Story, where Katherine Hepburn reflected on the Alden schooner in her infamous words “My, she was yar, easy to handle, quick to the helm, fast… ” Sixteen years late “True Love” would star again in the 1956 American musical comedy film directed by Charles Walters, “High Society,” where, while sailing, Bing Crosby serenades Grace Kelly with the Cole Porter song “True Love”

 

 

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