Wide-eyed in Babylon (Ray Milland autobiography)
Dust jacket notes: "The author of this autobiography has appeared in more than two hundred movies, has directed others, and was awarded an Oscar for his starring role in The Lost Weekend. He has become familiar to millions of several generations, for films in which he has starred are frequently shown on television. Yet acting is not his only considerable talent. Ray Milland is a natural-born writer and raconteur, and reading Wide-Eyed in Babylon is like sitting before a crackling fire listening to a superb storyteller spin his tales. By turns he is gracious, witty, charming, and always sensitive and intelligent. It is a fascinating story he has to tell: his beginnings in rural Wales, his abortive experience as a sailor, his loss of innocence, his hilarious entry into the Household Cavalry in England (he is an expert horseman and rifle shot), his brief career in the British theater and movies, his arrival in Hollywood in 1930 and the subsequent years there where he became one of America's great film stars and actors. And Ray Milland writes always with candor and often with affection about many he has known, among them Bing Crosby, Cecil B. De Mille, William Randolph Hearst, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Ethel Merman, Joseph Pasternak, Dorothy Lamour, Betty Furness, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, John Wayne, and Billy Wilder. And he relates one of the great romantic stories, his marriage to his wife, Mal. Here is the best book yet on the rock candy world of Hollywood by a man who writes with zest and wit about his profession, his milieu, and himself."
Author: Ray Milland
Format: Hardcover
Length: 264 pages
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Inc. (January 1, 1974)
Item weight: 2 lbs
Condition: Fair
Dust jacket notes: "The author of this autobiography has appeared in more than two hundred movies, has directed others, and was awarded an Oscar for his starring role in The Lost Weekend. He has become familiar to millions of several generations, for films in which he has starred are frequently shown on television. Yet acting is not his only considerable talent. Ray Milland is a natural-born writer and raconteur, and reading Wide-Eyed in Babylon is like sitting before a crackling fire listening to a superb storyteller spin his tales. By turns he is gracious, witty, charming, and always sensitive and intelligent. It is a fascinating story he has to tell: his beginnings in rural Wales, his abortive experience as a sailor, his loss of innocence, his hilarious entry into the Household Cavalry in England (he is an expert horseman and rifle shot), his brief career in the British theater and movies, his arrival in Hollywood in 1930 and the subsequent years there where he became one of America's great film stars and actors. And Ray Milland writes always with candor and often with affection about many he has known, among them Bing Crosby, Cecil B. De Mille, William Randolph Hearst, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Ethel Merman, Joseph Pasternak, Dorothy Lamour, Betty Furness, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, John Wayne, and Billy Wilder. And he relates one of the great romantic stories, his marriage to his wife, Mal. Here is the best book yet on the rock candy world of Hollywood by a man who writes with zest and wit about his profession, his milieu, and himself."
Author: Ray Milland
Format: Hardcover
Length: 264 pages
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Inc. (January 1, 1974)
Item weight: 2 lbs
Condition: Fair
| Product Name | Wide-eyed in Babylon (Ray Milland autobiography) |
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