Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television/Belle PoitrineBack in print at last! From the author of Auntie Mame: the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva whose life is one hilarious mishap after another. For Belle Poitrine, née Mayble Schlumpfert, all the world's a stage and she's the most important player on it. At once coy and coercive, with a name that means "beautiful bosom" in French, she claws her way from Striver's Row to the silver screen. Recalling Belle's career, which ranged from portraying Anne Boleyn in Oh, Henry to roles in both Sodom and its sequel Gomorrah (not to mention the classic Papaya Paradise), Little Me serves up copious quanitites of husbands, couture, and Pink Lady cocktails, with international adventures and a murder trial to boot. A runaway bestseller that made its way to Broadway, starring Sid Caesar in 1962 and Martin Short in 1998, Little Me is now reprinted--with all of the 150 historic, hysterical photographs depicting the funniest scenes from Belle's sordid life, including cameo appearances by the author and Rosalind Russell. Considered a collector's item, the first edition of Little Me was like a performance in book form. Now this glittering spoof of celebrity is gloriously reincarnated for connoisseurs of all things chick and cheeky. |
Contents
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CHAPTER THREE | 21 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 41 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 73 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 91 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 143 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 159 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 175 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 203 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 211 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | 221 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN | 235 |
CHAPTER TWENTY | 253 |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE | 265 |
Inside Belle Poitrine | 273 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | 185 |
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Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference Richard Dellamora,Daniel Fischlin Limited preview - 1997 |