American prince
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Tony Curtis with Peter Golenbock
Contributors: Golenbock, Peter, 1946-
Publisher: Large Print Press/Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 537
ISBN-13: 9781594133626
Subjects: Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: The legendary actor chronicles his odyssey from hard-knock childhood as the son of immigrant parents to Hollywood success, detailing his days as a tinseltown playboy, the film industry during Hollywood's Golden Era, and his life as an artist at the age of eighty.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Harmony Books, 2008.
Table of contents: title: New kid in town; title: A battered childhood; title: Fuck 'em and feed 'em fish; title: Ensign Schwartz; title: The dramatic workshop; title: Dancing with Yvonne de Carlo; title: Getting shot by Audie Murphy; title: Janet and Piper; title: The Hollywood scene; title: Getting the girls to scream; title: "The cat's in the bag, and the bag's in the river"; title: The defiant one; title: Some like it hot; title: The end of a marriage; title: My teenage bride; title: Top of the world; title: Downward spiral; title: "What time is the enema?"; title: Cocaine; title: Maybe I'll live forever.