All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I love it and the book was rich with lots of juicy Hollywood gossip and inside information about the legendary Hollywood Stars.

These stories run from tragic ("Our Missie" - about Vivien Leigh) to fanciful (adventures with Errol Flynn).

Written in much the same lightly flippant, entertaining style, he focuses on personalities such as Louis B.

I loved this book but am only giving it 4 stars because I like his autobiography The Moon's A Balloon sightly better and would give that one the extra star.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It now appears that Niven recounted many incidents from a first person perspective which actually happened to other people, and which he borrowed and embroidered. At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. Much more a memoir, than a biography… we get to read what David Niven thinks of, and his dealings with extras, castings, starlets, directors, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Warner, Fred Astaire etc. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.

Appena arrivato ho iniziato a leggerlo avidamente, una visione dall'interno del clima che si viveva negli Studios negli anni d'oro del cinema americano. The big stars like Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, and Humphrey Bogart are all mentioned; the film directors and producers like Samuel Goldwyn, John Huston, Michael Curtiz, William Wellman, and all the other inhabitants that made Hollywood the magical place it was - while gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper intimidated many personalities with their "items" publicised in the scandal sheets. Tape shadow marks to the end papers where the dust wrapper was protected in brown paper, now removed. This book is just a literary form of an evening spent over drinks with your larger-than-life uncle or your slightly conman type friend/friendly neighbourhood raconteur/story-teller.Other stories include Humphrey Bogart (eccentric), Greta Garbo (private), Constance Bennett (more interested in fun), Errol Flynn (never thinking ahead at the consequences of his actions), some famous directors, and a few non-actors who were part of the Hollywood culture like doctors and restaurant owners. This autobiography read likes a desription of the classic Hollywood of the 30's to the 50's and is informative but most of all it is fun to read.