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My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir

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My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir

The unabashedly funny and forthright memoir by the Tony Award winner for Grey Gardens, detailing the singular life and career of one of our most admired and acclaimed stage actors
Mary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop portraying legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her life and her careerâ€•including the Tony Award for her portrayal of Big Edie in Grey Gardensâ€•have been enviably celebrated and varied.Â

Raised in New Orleans with a social climbing, alcoholic mother, Mary Louise moved to New York City in the late 1950s; lived with her gay brother in the Village; entered the nightclub scene in a legendary review; and rubbed shoulders with every famous person of that era and since. My First Hundred Years in Show Business gets it all down. Yet as delicious as the anecdotes are, the heart of this book is in its unblinkingly honest depiction of the life of a working actor. In her inimitable voiceâ€•wry, admirably unsentimental, mordantly funnyâ€•Mary Louise Wilson has crafted a work that is at once a teeming social history of the New York theatre scene and a thoroughly revealing, superbly entertaining memoir of the life of an extraordinary woman and actor. 24 b&w photographs

Country	USA
Author	Mary Louise Wilson
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781468310856
Edition	1
ISBN	1468310852
Label	The Overlook Press
Manufacturer	The Overlook Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2015-06-23
Publisher	The Overlook Press
ReleaseDate	2015-06-23
Studio	The Overlook Press

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