Original story by
Subtitle: a memoir of Broadway and Hollywood
By: Arthur Laurents
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780375400551
Subjects: Theatrical producers and directors; Social life and customs; Motion picture producers and directors; Screenwriters; Biography; American Dramatists
Description: "Director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents--author of Gypsy, West Side Story, Anastasia, The turning point and other plays and films--takes us into his life, and into the dazzling world in which he worked, among the artists, directors, actors and personalities who came of age in the theatre and in Hollywood after the Second World War."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings : Home of the Brave; title: Hollywood University : Mrs. Selznick, Messrs. Litvak, Hitchcock, Cukor and Ophuls; title: Master class : with Harold and Stella, Shirley and Kate, Steve and Dick; title: Change of direction : I Can Get it For You Wholesale, with Stark and Merrick vs. Streisand; title: The hunting season : The Way We Were, and the way they were; title: Informing revisited : Jolson sings again, and other betrayals; title: The moon comes out : West Side Story, Gypsy, and Tom.