Dancing at Ciro's: A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset StripMacmillan, 12. mar. 2004 - 352 sider In 1958, young Sheila Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then her world exploded after she witnessed her uncle's brutal attempt to kill her father. Weller has written a deeply felt memoir of her family's life contrasted with those most glamorous days of Hollywood's forties and fifties. While vividly describing Lana Turner's, Frank Sinatra's, and Sammy Davis Jr.'s evenings--and breakdowns--at Ciro's, Weller casts a keen eye on her own family's turmoil and loss. |
Indhold
January 8 1958 | 1 |
18871918 | 21 |
19191932 | 36 |
19321936 | 61 |
19351939 | 75 |
19391941 | 97 |
Chapter Six Hollywood New York Boston | 125 |
Chapter Seven Hollywood Boston New York | 152 |
19461951 | 185 |
19481952 | 211 |
19581959 | 271 |
Chapter Thirteen Beverly Hills The High Seas Great Neck | 296 |
Afterword | 323 |
Acknowledgments | 333 |
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