Bring On The Empty Horses

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In fact, Niven set the benchmark for the Hollywood expose, after all he was there at the parties and in the beds of the glamorous stars and also in a lot of very unmemorable films. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and miss all those fabulous old movies and those shining stars who made them. Niven is never boring and often so charming that one is so lulled by his general tone, and you no longer care about anything save reading more of the same. I have to admit, though, that Niven's lighthearted description of the classy brothel down the hill from his apartment had charm to spare. David Niven was also a very campionable sort of the chap, liked fishing, yatching, lots of drinking and making love to beatutiful women, as well as the power struggles of the studio tycoons. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. He discusses many different people and scenarios in this book, the title of which is derived from an amusing incident on a film set.

This is the follow-up to David Niven's first memoir ( The Moon's a Balloon), but this book is centered on the stories of Niven's friends and co-stars and directors. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Personally, I wish there had been more about the filming of THE MOON IS BLUE (1953) and PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES (1960, of which not a word is said). Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. p>The data controller is Headline Publishing Group Limited. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate.

Here we learn that the "Goldwynisms" that Samuel Goldwyn is so famous for might have all been made-up. You spend an entire evening and talk into the night recounting their mis-adventures, hilarious scrapes and some deliciously engaging anecdotes whose veracity you can never be 100% certain about. I understand that he previously wrote something of an autobiography but I cannot vouch for that work. You see, she had also gone blind, losing the ability to read, and having to listen to audio tapes on an old fashioned cassette player, which wasn't, for her, the same enjoyment of reading black type on white pages. Never again will a particular zeitgeist carry the particular bouquet that lilted through the rarified air of the Tinseltown of those glamour years.

His "Missy" revelation is startling, as it details the mental breakdown of Vivien Leigh (though he never mentions her name) and illustrates the high level of stress and expectations placed upon the studio stars of that era. Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material.

A lot of the names in this book are mostly forgotten, unless you are a classic movie fan of the 30's and 40's like myself. I loved this book but am only giving it 4 stars because I like his autobiography The Moon's A Balloon sightly better and would give that one the extra star. So bring on the empty horses and fill their saddles with shades of Cooper, Gable, Fairbanks and Flynn.Second impression hard back binding in publisher's original pink cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. When asked which biography/memoir I best prefer, I am unable to hold back my admiration of David Niven's work here in Bring on the Empty Horses. In 1959, he became the host of his own TV drama series, The David Niven Show, which ran for 13 episodes that summer. A big name-dropping bitch of a book written with a wit as sharp as a dagger - and more than one famous personality gets it right between the shoulder blades .