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It seemed important at the time : a romance memoir / Gloria Vanderbilt.
Van Pelt Library CT275.V234 A3 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vanderbilt, Gloria, 1924-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vanderbilt, Gloria, 1924-2019.
- Celebrities--United States--Biography.
- Celebrities.
- Women fashion designers.
- Socialites.
- United States.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- Socialites--United States--Biography.
- Actors--United States--Biography.
- Actors.
- Fashion designers--United States--Biography.
- Fashion designers.
- Women fashion designers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 161 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2004]
- Summary:
- An elegant, witty, frank, touching, and deeply personal account of the loves both great and fleeting in the life of one of America's most celebrated and fabled women. Born to great wealth yet kept a virtual prisoner by the custody battle that raged between her proper aunt and her self-absorbed, beautiful mother, Gloria Vanderbilt grew up in a special world. Stunningly beautiful herself, yet insecure and with a touch of wildness, she set out at a very early age to find romance. And find it she did. There were love affairs with Howard Hughes, Bill Paley, and Frank Sinatra, to name a few, and one-night stands, which she writes about with delicacy and humor, including one with the young Marlon Brando. There were marriages to men as diverse as Pat De Cicco, who abused her; the legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, who kept his innermost secrets from her; film director Sidney Lumet; and finally writer Wyatt Cooper, the love of her life.
- Now, in an irresistible memoir that is at once ruthlessly forthright, supremely stylish, full of fascinating details, and deeply touching, Gloria Vanderbilt writes at last about the subject on which she has hitherto been silent: the men in her life, why she loved them, and what each affair or marriage meant to her. This is the candid and captivating account of a life that has kept gossip writers speculating for years, as well as Gloria's own intimate description of growing up, living, marrying, and loving in the glare of the limelight and becoming, despite a family as famous and wealthy as America has ever produced, not only her own person but an artist, a designer, a business-woman, and a writer of rare distinction.
- Contents:
- Romance 3
- The Scarlet Sting of Scandal 4
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolves 11
- The Great Thing 16
- Wedded Bliss ... 32
- Happy Birthday 35
- My Mummy
- Later 43
- Much, Much Later ... 45
- Fantasia with Stokowski 46
- Breakfast at Tiffany's with the Tiny Terror 53
- Bill Paley and the Tiny Terror 57
- Dinner Chez Brando 64
- There's That Phone Call ... 69
- Miracle and Me 71
- King Arthur and Lady Guinevere 79
- A Red Rose 81
- Of Pink Tongues and How Serious and Sincere It All Was 84
- Fortune Cookies 88
- Over the Rainbow at Ten Gracie Square 91
- Fast Forward ... 94
- Le Divorce 97
- Once There Was a Couple ... 100
- Rock Bottom 103
- The Fantast 108
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee 119
- Another Part of the Forest 127
- Substitutes 132
- Hazel Kelly 134
- Someone Like You 137
- Fun 143
- Quite by Chance 148
- What Are You Going to Wear? 154
- Long Distance 157.
- ISBN:
- 0743264800
- OCLC:
- 55095141
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