Buy this book on-line MORLEY**, SHERIDAN: : THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON - THE LIFE OF DAVID NIVENLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1985. ISBN 0060154705.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Minimal edge creasing - shelf wear? 8vo,300pp includes appendix,filmography,32pp b/w photographs and an index.
Written with greater freedom than an authorized biography,Sheridan Morley has nevertheless received the full co-operation of Niven's family in compiling this highly enjoyable and perceptive account of the triumphs and tragedies in the life of the star who for millions of cinema-goers symbolized the British gentleman in Hollywood and for whom his enormous public had such affection.
Many new insights are provided by the 130 close friends, colleagues and enemies around the world interviewed by the author,including Lauren Bacall, Claudette Colbert, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Stewart Granger, Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Deborah Kerr, John Mills, John Mortimer, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quayle, Prince Rainier, Peter Ustinov and Robert Wagner.His autobiographies offer a very selective,carefully edited and sometimes inaccurate account of his life. He gives no indication,for instance,of his affairs with Merle Oberon and Rita Hayworth,and could have easily written his life story in terms of tragedy rather than light comedy: the loss in World War 1 of the father he barely knew; his barbaric prep-school days; the step-father who loathed him; his disillusionment with the peacetime army; the lasting effects of his first wife's violent death; his often stormy second marriage; the near death of a beloved adopted daughter; and finally his two-year losing battle with motor neurone disease.If Niven's moon was a balloon,then it was punctured more often than he publicly cared to admit.This first major biography makes enthralling reading and enhances our understanding,sympathy and admiration for this remarkable man.
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