Ali MacGraw: Moving Pictures, An Autobiography (Signed 1st Edition)

Ali MacGraw

ISBN 10: 0593023420 / ISBN 13: 9780593023426

Published by Bantam Press, 1991

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Blue boards with gilt titles to the spine. Clean pages and firm binding. Dust Jacket is price clipped. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ali MacGraw: Moving Pictures, An Autobiography (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593023420
• ISBN 13: 9780593023426
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed By Author

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Synopsis

This is the autobiography of a former photographer's stylist who became an international film celebrity and married two of Hollywood's biggest names, but then seemed to throw it all away. The role of Jenny in "Love Story" brought Ali MacGraw stardom. She married producer Bob Evans and bore him a son, but after two years she left Evans for Steve McQueen. McQueen was a troubled man who longed to live simply, almost reclusively, with his wife barefoot and pregnant. At his insistence MacGraw gave up acting at the peak of her fame, making a decision from which her career never recovered. When the tumultuous marriage ended after six years she was not much in demand, and what acting she did, for example in television's "Dynasty", was ridiculed - justly, she felt. A lifelong pattern of destructive love affairs continued and her depression was abetted by unacknowledged alcoholism. When a friend persuaded her in 1986 to go to the Betty Ford Clinic, MacGraw felt she needed only a "tune-up". What she found instead was life-saving help. Now Ali MacGraw takes stock of her life, revising the mythical childhood she once invented for a "Time" cover story and describing the heady early years in New York, her attempted transformation by the Hollywood machine and the realities she faces today as a woman who hopes her greatest adventures are yet to come.