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Life's a Scream: Autobiography of Ingrid Pitt
by
Ingrid Pitt
Hardcover
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320 pages
Published
August 2nd 1999
by William Heinemann
(first published 1999)
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I had the very great honour of knowing Ingrid.
I was a fan before I met for the first time - deff a very great fan of the warm, funny, lovely lady after I met her!
This book is a fascinating account of a very unusual life. Full of adventure and sometimes harrowing and quite hard to read.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading autobiographies.
R.I.P Ingrid! You are Missed!
P.S She told me once that she wanted to call this book FROM S..T TO CHAMPAIGNE but was talked out of it! Lol! Th ...more
I was a fan before I met for the first time - deff a very great fan of the warm, funny, lovely lady after I met her!
This book is a fascinating account of a very unusual life. Full of adventure and sometimes harrowing and quite hard to read.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading autobiographies.
R.I.P Ingrid! You are Missed!
P.S She told me once that she wanted to call this book FROM S..T TO CHAMPAIGNE but was talked out of it! Lol! Th ...more
The second part of this book is standard fare for a movie star's autobiography, complete with the name-dropping tales, found here, for example, in stories how Pitt played cards with John Wayne, rode motorbikes with Clint Eastwood, and practiced Karate with Elvis. But it is the first part of her story that sets this apart, and what a story too.
A childhood coinciding with World War Two, and a Europe being consumed in madness, some of her memories are harrowing, culminating in the years in which s ...more
A childhood coinciding with World War Two, and a Europe being consumed in madness, some of her memories are harrowing, culminating in the years in which s ...more
Whenever some famous person that I find interesting passes away, I often get a desire to read up on them. Although her acting career stretched across many decades, I primarily remember Ingrid Pitt as a middle-aged hottie who played bad girls and vampires in 1970's horror films. Born in Poland to a German father and Polish Jewish mother, Pitt had the misfortune of spending her formative years in a Nazi concentration camp. Through pluck and luck, she managed to survive the Nazis. After the war, In
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Wow. An amazing and full life in two parts. Although I never got to meet Ingrid personally I did work with a friend of hers for a while and spoke in the phone on the odd occasion, they'd lunch when shed come to town for conventions - our company even doing some work for Steffie along the way.
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Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov) was a British actress, famous for her work in horror films. She married three times, first to Laud Roland Pitt Jr, an American GI; second to George Pinches, a British film executive; and then to Tony Rudlin, an actor and racing car driver. Her daughter, Steffanie Pitt-Blake, is also an actress.
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