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Hardcover Cloth 235 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1987. Lovely teal boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.The noted actor traces his life from his Tidewater Virginia beginnings and goes behind the scenes of his stage plays and movies with intimate stories of his adventures with Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Katharine Hepburn, Hedda Hopper, Marilyn Monroe, David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones and others.
To have made your film debut in a major role in Citizen Kane is no small thing. To originate the role of C.K. Dexter Haven in the stage version of Philadelphia Story is splendid. To write about all of it without making yourself sound like an egocentric jerk? That's what… Read More