" I don't think David Niven did anything particularly brave in Europe, " said his brother-in-law, Andrew Rollo, " or I would have heard ", and Sir Peter Ustinov, who knew him well during the war, said: " I don't think there was much derring-do. " Niven's great friend Deborah Kerr's husband, Peter Viertel, also said to the writer of the book NIV - the authorized biography of David Niven: " I think the British army was very happy to keep him somewhere out of danger. "
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