My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir
by Shirley MacLaine
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "This book is like nothing you've read before about the world of movies--written by a movie star."--Liz Smith An Academy Award-winning actress and the internationally bestselling author of Out on a Limb delivers her touching, warm, and headline-making memoir. In My Lucky Stars Shirley MacLaine talks candidly and personally about her four decades in Hollywood, especially about the men and women--her "lucky stars"--who touched and challenged her life. "[Maclaine is] show more an engaging storyteller. . . . Breezy and entertaining."--The New York Times Book Review show lessTags
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This was an entertaining biography, rather breezy in sections. I read this with our Enneagram meetup group in New York.. She was determined to be a Number Two type personality, which is described as a helper or giver, and having an enthusiastic personality. This book spends a lot of time describing the whirlwind of people around Shirley, and is not introspective. It might be a good reference book for future historians who want to know something about many actors and actresses who never write books about themselves, but who MacLaine encountered.
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Shirley MacLaine, Oscar, Emmy, & Golden Globe-winning actress, has appeared in more than fifty films, been nominated for an Academy Award six times, & received the Oscar for Best Actress in 1984. A longtime outspoken advocate for civil rights & liberties, she is the author of eight international bestsellers--"Don't Fall Off the Mountain", "You Can show more Get There from Here", "Out on a Limb", "Dancing in the Light", "It's All in the Playing", "Going Within", "Dance While You Can", & "My Lucky Stars". Shirley MacLaine was born on April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia. She is an American film and theater actress, activist, dancer and author. In 1983 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Terms of Endearment. She has received five other Oscar nominations and five Golden Globe nominations. MacLaine made her film debut in 1955 and has starred in over 50 films since then. MacLaine has written a few books about her spiritual belief in reincarnation. She also authored a book about George McGovern in 1972 when he was running for president. The book is entitled, McGovern: The Man and His Beliefs. Together with her younger brother, Warren Beatty, MacLaine used her high-profile status to raise funds for the McGovern campaign. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The great mystery is not what we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough t... (show all)o deny our nothingness.
-- André Malraux, La Condition Humaine (("Man's Fate") - Dedication
- For Sachi, With all my love
And to Peter, For being there
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
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- PN2287 .M18 .A3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Dramatic representation. The theater Special regions or countries
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