Like it's author's acting, this memoir is endlessly diverting and so compelling you barely notice the lack of structure. A natural storyteller, which she would attribute to her Irish heritage, she creates vivid tales of her growing up, her work experiences and fascinating people like Adlai Stevenson, James Dean, Orson Welles and Joan Crawford (though she never gets into the supposed feud on the set of "Johnny Guitar"). But the stories are not in chronological order, there's no index and the capt
Like it's author's acting, this memoir is endlessly diverting and so compelling you barely notice the lack of structure. A natural storyteller, which she would attribute to her Irish heritage, she creates vivid tales of her growing up, her work experiences and fascinating people like Adlai Stevenson, James Dean, Orson Welles and Joan Crawford (though she never gets into the supposed feud on the set of "Johnny Guitar"). But the stories are not in chronological order, there's no index and the captions she wrote for the illustrations at times promise stories that never appear in the text. If you can forgive her for that, which I found easy to do, the book presents a humorous and moving look at one of the mid-century's best actresses.
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