My secret mother : Lorna Moon / Richard de Mille.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Mille, Richard, 1922-2009.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moon, Lorna, 1886-1930.

Moon, Lorna.

De Mille, Richard, 1922-2009.

Families.

Women novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Women novelists, American.

Women screenwriters--United States--Biography.

Women screenwriters.

United States.

Women journalists--United States--Biography.

Women journalists.

Birthmothers--United States--Biography.

Birthmothers.

De Mille, Richard, 1922-2009--Family.

De Mille, Richard.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 311 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Other Title:

Lorna Moon

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Summary:

De Mille's search for the identity of his biological mother (he was the adopted son of Cecil B. de Mille) leads him to Lorna Moon, a flamboyant Scottish writer who actually lived less than a mile from the house in which he grew up. A memoir of Hollywood's glamorous heyday in the 1930s and '40s, Moon's story is a vivid portrait of an independent woman who rejected motherhood in favor of career. Photos.

Notes:

Illustrated title page.

"First edition, 1998."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-304) and index.

Includes filmography: pages [301]-302.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374217572

OCLC:

38039683