With Powder on My Nose
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2016
168 pages
978-1-78720-197-2 (ISBN)
Description
Following on from her successful 1949 memoir "e;With a Feather on My Nose,"e; here we have a further biography, first published in 1959, from famous Broadway and early silent film actress Billie Burke, best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz and widow of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld of Ziegfeld Follies fame.Co-author Cameron Shipp, a ghost writer who had also worked with Mack Sennett and Lionel Barrymore, assisted in assembling Miss Burke's copious notes and transcribed her enthusiastic monologues into this wonderful biography filled with good-humoured advice on marriage, career, exercise, food (included are some delicious recipes!), and even perfecting the art of lying about your age!A most enjoyable trip down a career film star's memory lane.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- CHAPTER 1-WITH POWDER ON MY NOSE
- CHAPTER 2-THE TROUBLE WITH WOMEN
- CHAPTER 3-KITCHEN, BEDROOM, AND BATH
- CHAPTER 4-WITH A POSSUM ON MY HEAD
- CHAPTER 5-WHY I NEVER MARRIED AGAIN
- CHAPTER 6-IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTRESS...
- CHAPTER 7-LET'S FACE IT
- CHAPTER 8-HOW TO STEAL UP TO TEN DOLLARS AND OTHER GOOD ADVICE
- CHAPTER 9-CLOTHES-AND THE SHAPE YOU'RE IN
- CHAPTER 10-MY BEST ADVICE
- CHAPTER 11-EASY EXERCISE
- CHAPTER 12-THEY
- CHAPTER 13-SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT
- CHAPTER 14-GOING STEADY
- CHAPTER 15-DEAR MRS. POST: IS IT ALL RIGHT TO BE POLITE TO A CHILD?
- CHAPTER 16-UN-BIRTHDAYS
- CHAPTER 17-WHEN TO TELL YOUR AGE
- CHAPTER 18-OUT OF MY HEAD
- CHAPTER 19-HOW TO WRITE A BOOK WITH BILLIE BURKE
- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER
