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Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. 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. Firstly, with working from home I was able to work and listen to David Niven read his own book to you, adding a great personal touch to his autobiography. I think he is more honest and forthcoming about the people who had already passed and is less truthful about anyone who was still living or who had widows still living in 1975.

Written in much the same lightly flippant, entertaining style, he focuses on personalities such as Louis B. David Niven is charming and with his down-to-earth narration, he relates many stories of his friendships, trials, antics, tragedies and the day-to-day lives of some of the greatest stars of the silver screen.It is surprising really as I am not a fan of David Niven and did not know a great deal about him prior to reading this book. Actor David Niven's volume of autobiography (after "The Moon's A Balloon"), well-written and entertaining. 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. He depicts the heartbreaks, the dreams and eccentricities of various characters and manages to cast a very human eye on their stories. My favourite biographies are always the ones that give good stories on their co-stars, their friends, the great gossip of the real Hollywood in the heyday of Hollywood.

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. 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. David Niven nos cuenta su experiencia en Hollywood a través de las relaciones de amistad que mantuvo con algunas de las estrellas de la época dorada: Gable, Flynn, Bogart y muchos otros.

Niven was part of the Hollywood Raj, that group of ex-pat Englishmen who played cricket at the park off Sunset Boulevard and ate roast beef on Sundays, regardless of the California heat. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I understand that he previously wrote something of an autobiography but I cannot vouch for that work.

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