The moon's a balloon
Niven, David, 1910-19831994
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One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen. Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows how, even as an unknown young man, he knew how to live the good life. But it is his astonishing stories of life in Hollywood and his accounts of working and partying with the legends of the silver screen - Lawrence Oliver, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward and dozens of others, while making some of the most acclaimed films of the last century - which turn David Niven's memoir into an outright masterpiece. An intimate, gossipy, heartfelt and above all charming account of life inside Hollywood's dream factory, The Moon is a Balloon is a classic to be read and enjoyed time and again
Main title:
The moon's a balloon / David Niven.
Author:
Edition:
Reprint.
Imprint:
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1994.
Collation:
336 pages [16] pages of plates ; 18 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780140239249 (pbk)
Dewey class:
791.43028092920.NIV920.NIVE920 NIV920.920B NIV
Local class:
920.NIV791.43092 B/NIV
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
216738
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