Spend a few hours with George Hamilton?

Don’t Mind If I Do

Don’t let that tanned, handsome, charming surface fool you. Beneath the bronzed façade is a mischievous mind with a wicked wit. George Hamilton doesn’t miss a thing. With a front row seat for classic Hollywood’s biggest secrets and scandals, George has the intelligence, heart, and unflappable spirit to tell his story, and the story of Tinseltown’s heyday, with great good humor and delicious candor — as only he can. From Where the Boys Are to Dancing with the Stars; from Mary Pickford to Elizabeth Taylor; from smalltown Arkansas to the capitals of Europe — it’s all here, and George has lived to tell and to laugh about it.

As the child of a Dartmouth-educated bandleader dad and a glamorous Southern debutante mom whose marriage crumbled early on, George had a childhood filled with misadventures and challenges that his mom always seemed able to turn from tragedy to comedy. Her idea of changing the family’s fortunes involved a trip cross-country with three sons and a poodle in a Lincoln Continental, making stops along the way to search for husband/father number three. And she was quick to recognize that George’s potential success lay in Hollywood.

George starved nobly for his art in the late 1950s, but was soon starring in major motion photos directed by the likes of Vincente Minnelli and Louis Malle. He has forgotten more about Hollywood than most motion picture experts will ever know and shares intimate and hugely pleasing stories of his friendships with Cary Grant; Brigitte Bardot; Robert Mitchum; Merle Oberon; Mae West; Sammy Davis, Jr.; and Judy Garland — not to mention Lyndon B. Johnson and Elvis’s Colonel Tom Parker as well as the King himself — among others. The world is Hamilton’s oyster, and this ultimate insider is ready to share it with us. So fasten your seat belt. We’ll tell you when it’s safe to move about the cabin again.

Author : George Hamilton
Binding : Paperback
DeweyDecimalNumber : 790
Feature : ISBN13: 9781416545071, Condition: USED – VERY GOOD, Notes:
Feature : ISBN13: 9781416545071
ISBN : 1416545077
Label : Touchstone
Manufacturer : Touchstone
NumberOfPages : 320
PublicationDate : 2009-05-05
Publisher : Touchstone
Studio : Touchstone

Spend a few hours with George Hamilton?

Don’t Mind If I Do

Don’t let that tanned, handsome, charming surface fool you. Beneath the bronzed façade is a mischievous mind with a wicked wit. George Hamilton doesn’t miss a thing. With a front row seat for classic Hollywood’s biggest secrets and scandals, George has the intelligence, heart, and unflappable spirit to tell his story, and the story of Tinseltown’s heyday, with great good humor and delicious candor — as only he can. From Where the Boys Are to Dancing with the Stars; from Mary Pickford to Elizabeth Taylor; from smalltown Arkansas to the capitals of Europe — it’s all here, and George has lived to tell and to laugh about it.

As the child of a Dartmouth-educated bandleader dad and a glamorous Southern debutante mom whose marriage crumbled early on, George had a childhood filled with misadventures and challenges that his mom always seemed able to turn from tragedy to comedy. Her idea of changing the family’s fortunes involved a trip cross-country with three sons and a poodle in a Lincoln Continental, making stops along the way to search for husband/father number three. And she was quick to recognize that George’s potential success lay in Hollywood.

George starved nobly for his art in the late 1950s, but was soon starring in major motion photos directed by the likes of Vincente Minnelli and Louis Malle. He has forgotten more about Hollywood than most motion picture experts will ever know and shares intimate and hugely pleasing stories of his friendships with Cary Grant; Brigitte Bardot; Robert Mitchum; Merle Oberon; Mae West; Sammy Davis, Jr.; and Judy Garland — not to mention Lyndon B. Johnson and Elvis’s Colonel Tom Parker as well as the King himself — among others. The world is Hamilton’s oyster, and this ultimate insider is ready to share it with us. So fasten your seat belt. We’ll tell you when it’s safe to move about the cabin again.

Author : George Hamilton
Binding : Paperback
DeweyDecimalNumber : 790
Feature : ISBN13: 9781416545071, Condition: USED – VERY GOOD, Notes:
Feature : ISBN13: 9781416545071
ISBN : 1416545077
Label : Touchstone
Manufacturer : Touchstone
NumberOfPages : 320
PublicationDate : 2009-05-05
Publisher : Touchstone
Studio : Touchstone