num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: Dancing at Ciro's: A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset Strip
titlecomplete: Dancing at Ciro's: A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset Strip
genres: History, Memoir, Autobiography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 81
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin