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Title: The Memory of All That: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris by Betsy Blair ISBN: 0-375-41299-9 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Betsy Blair is a born writer!
Comment: This is an absolutely brilliantly written book. If you're looking for a bio of Gene kelly, this isn't it. But if you want to read about an endlessly fascinating woman, run to the bookstore. Totally beguiling!
Rating: 4
Summary: a rare, lively and moving tale
Comment: I loved, loved, loved this book, for several reasons.
First, it distinguishes itself from the hoards of Hollywood memoirs in that it is completely and uttlerly honest -- as honest as the day is long. Betsy Blair seemed bent on telling us a tale of fame, fortune and success, all without the hazy gauze so typical of Hollywood memoirs. Her eye is specific and sharp, her insights into people and places are clever and frequently dead on, and her honesty is so forthright, that she is able to freely admit she is the only one in the story who truly misbehaves.
Second it is a great theatrical tale. Blair, a talented and ambitious young woman, catches the eye of Gene Kelly, she was just 17, he was not much older, while hoofing it up at a New York nightclub. Their subsequent marriage and Gene's rise to movie stardom is magical and dreamy. But Blair knows this well, and she never loses her sense of self. Her ability to see her own life though her eyes, that of a hardworking and insightful actress, and not as someone who was born to win, lends an air of respectability and weight to the book that I very much admired. When the marriage fails, in part because of her of inability to live in such a wonderful cocoon, the sense of poignancy is deep, it also rare in such books.
Her later years, in Europe, as an actress and political activist, are some of the most interesting in the book. To leave one of the world's great movie stars is a feat in and of itself. To build a new and exciting life, as an actress. mother and then wife to one of the great realist film directors, Karel Reisz, makes it a thoroughly modern story, inspirational for all women who dream that both beauty and satisfaction in life can be there for the taking.
Rating: 1
Summary: "I Love Lucy" without the humor.
Comment: The above detailed reviews all match my own opinions of this book,
and are generally better written than the book. What a ditsy dame!
The Hollywood frou-frou is from an old fan magazine, or some
such automatic input. Her perceptions of herself are just as
vague and silly. One would only read this in desperation to
try to find out more about Gene Kelly, genius of the dance.
Slim pickings indeed! And not even an "as told to" entry.
This book is without value on any level.
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Title: Public Places: My Life in the Theater, with Peter O'Toole and Beyond by Sian Phillips ISBN: 0571211283 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Red and the Blacklist: A Memoir of a Hollywood Insider by Norma Barzman ISBN: 1560254661 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams by Alvin Yudkoff ISBN: 0823088197 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries As He Wrote Them, 1970-1980 by Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, Hugo Vickers ISBN: 1400041120 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne ISBN: 0679454810 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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