Little Me
by Patrick Dennis
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Back in print at last! From the author of Auntie Mame: the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva whose life is one hilarious mishap after another. For Belle Poitrine, née Mayble Schlumpfert, all the world's a stage and she's the most important player on it. At once coy and coercive, with a name that means "beautiful bosom" in French, she claws her way from Striver's Row to the silver screen. Recalling Belle's career, which ranged from portraying Anne show more Boleyn in Oh, Henry to roles in both Sodom and its sequel Gomorrah (not to mention the classic Papaya Paradise), Little Me serves up copious quanitites of husbands, couture, and Pink Lady cocktails, with international adventures and a murder trial to boot. A runaway bestseller that made its way to Broadway, starring Sid Caesar in 1962 and Martin Short in 1998, Little Me is now reprinted--with all of the 150 historic, hysterical photographs depicting the funniest scenes from Belle's sordid life, including cameo appearances by the author and Rosalind Russell. Considered a collector's item, the first edition of Little Me was like a performance in book form. Now this glittering spoof of celebrity is gloriously reincarnated for connoisseurs of all things chick and cheeky. show lessTags
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The camp classic "autobiography" of superstar Belle Poitrine (nee Maybelle Schlumpfert), whose memoirs have been "indiscreetly confided" to Patrick Dennis (author or another camp classic, Auntie Mame). As amusing as Dennis' text is in this celebrity-tell-all parody, it's the weird and hilarious photographs of Cris Alexander which push this odd book into a wonderful bizarro stratosphere.
One of the funniest books ever written in English.
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- Canonical title
- Little Me
- Original title
- Little Me : The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television, Belle Poitrine (as told to Patrick Dennis) (as told to Patrick Dennis)
- Original publication date
- 1961
- People/Characters
- Poitrine, Belle
- Original language*
- Inglese
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- English, Italian
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 5
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