Running Time - Hardcover

Lambert, Gavin

3.94

16 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025676806 ISBN 13: 9780025676800

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1983

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Jewel Kay compares her own recollections with entries in her deceased mother's diary to get the real story of how Elva, in 1918, made her daughter Jewel into one of the first child stars in Hollywood

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Review:

Gavin Lambert?s elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood in a way that has yet to be rivalled (Armistead Maupin)

One of the most ingenious, imaginative, scholarly, and entertaining blends of fiction and fact that I have ever read? I would go so far as to say that this is the first novel which movie buffs can read with respect to the author?s accuracy (Alexander Walker ?One doesn?t have to have lived and worked in Hollywood to be amused and fascinated by this novel with a dual identity. This is the portrait of an indefatigable woman but also quite unmistakably a unique life-history of the American film industry)

' Paul Bowles

About the Author:

Gavin Lambert was born in England but has lived for much of his life in Hollywood. He is the author of several novels (The Slide Area, Inside Daisy Clover, The Goodbye People), non-fiction (including On Cukor, The Dangerous Edge) and screenplays (Sons and Lovers, for which he gained an Academy Award nomination, and Inside Daisy Clover). Gavin Lambert's biography of Lindsay Anderson has recently been published and he is currently writing a biography of Natalie Wood.

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