The actress and author looks back on her forty years in show business, from her arrival in Hollywood as a dancer, to her work in films with Jerry Lewis and Frank Sinatra, to her love affairs.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . In this touching memoir, Academy Award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine "dishes up revelations and insights galore" (USA Today) about her career in Hollywood."Robust, ribald stories . . . juicy."-PeopleIn the memoir that made headlines,Shirley MacLainedazzles us with the subject she knows most intimately-Hollywood, especially about the men and women-her "lucky stars"-who touched and challenged her life.She talkscandidly and personallyabout . . .Her wildly unconventional marriage to Steve Parker"As soon as we met , I knew my life was to take a new course. . . . Our connection had the shock of destiny to it. . , . There was nothing I could have done to alter or avoid the experience we were intended to have together."Her friendship with the Rat Pack-especially Frank Sinatra"I was comfortable and friendly being around the guys in the group because I was perceived by most of them as a mascot. I was the only woman they allowed in the house, but that was because there had been a kind of communal decision made that I wasn't really a girl-I was a pal, maybe even one of the boys."The movie she made with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis"Dean, not Jerry, was the funny one to me. His humor was subtle, spontaneous-a result of the moment. Jerry's was brilliant, but usually premeditated."And much, much more . . .
“"This book is like nothing you've read before about the world of movies--written by a movie star." --Liz Smith "[Maclaine is] an engaging storyteller. . . . Breezy and entertaining." -- The New York Times Book Review”
“This book is like nothing you’ve read before about the world of movies—written by a movie star.”—Liz Smith
“[Maclaine is] an engaging storyteller. . . . Breezy and entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review
Shirley Maclaine was born and raised in Virginia. She began her career as a Broadway dancer and singer, then progressed to featured performer and award-winning actress in television and films. She has traveled extensively around the world, and her experiences in Africa, Bhutan, and the Far East formed the basis for her first two bestsellers,Don't Fall Off the MountainandYou Can Get There From Here. Her investigations into the spiritual realm were the focus ofOut on a Limb, Dancing in the Light, It's All in the Playing,andGoing Within, all of which were national and worldwide bestsellers. In her intimate memoirDance While You Can, she wrote about aging, relationships, work, her parents, her daughter, and her own future as an artist and a woman. MyLucky Stars- A Hollywood Memoiroffers a candid and searching look at her forty years in Hollywood and the stars who taught her about show business and life.
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