Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553572334 ISBN 13: 9780553572339

Publisher: Bantam USA, 1996

The Academy Award-winning actress and author of seven best-selling books reveals insights into her Hollywood career, through four decades of film-making and on- and off-screen moments with Jack Nicholson, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anthony Hopkins, and others. Reprint.

About the Author:

Shirley Maclaine was born and raised in Virginia. She began her career as a Broadway dancer and singer, then progressed to featured performer and award-winning actress in television and films. She has traveled extensively around the world, and her experiences in Africa, Bhutan, and the Far East formed the basis for her first two bestsellers, Don’t Fall Off the Mountain and You Can Get There From Here. Her investigations into the spiritual realm were the focus of Out on a Limb, Dancing in the Light, It’s All in the Playing, and Going Within, all of which were national and worldwide bestsellers. In her intimate memoir Dance While You Can, she wrote about aging, relationships, work, her parents, her daughter, and her own future as an artist and a woman. My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir offers a candid and searching look at her forty years in Hollywood and the stars who taught her about show business and life.

Synopsis:

The actress and author looks back on her forty years in show business, from her arrival in Hollywood as a dancer, to her work in films with Jerry Lewis and Frank Sinatra, to her love affairs.