Dancing at Ciro's
Subtitle: A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset Strip
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: February 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312241766
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Personal Memoirs; Women; Biography & Autobiography / General; Literary; Biography; California; Case studies; Family; Jews; Los Angeles; New York; New York (State); Weller, Sheila
First sentence: Though my mother and father would not cross paths until they moved to Hollywood as young adults, they grew up a mile from each other in and near Brownsville and East New York.
Description: "In 1958, young Shelia Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant and charismatic brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then Sheila Weller's world exploded. After she witnessed her uncle's frenzied physical assault on her father, a whole store of family secrets and dramas unfolded, rivaling those that transpired in the nightclub's dressing room and banquettes every night.".

"Weller has written a deeply felt memoir of her family's richly accomplished but ultimately tragic life, contrasted with those most glamorous days of Hollywood's golden era. While vividly describing Lana Turner's, Frank Sinatra's, and Sammy Davis Jr.'s evenings - and breakdowns - at Ciro's, she captures a whole subgroup of American dreamers: the New York Jews who bounded from Brooklyn to Broadway and finally to Hollywood.

They expected that success and proximity to glamour would erase centuries of anxiety and melancholy - but often discovered they'd only found a higher ledge from which to fall."--BOOK JACKET.