A Front Row Seat (eBook)

An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour

Nancy Olson Livingston (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
402 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9621-3 (ISBN)

Infos

From her idyllic childhood in the American Midwest to her Oscar-nominated performance in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and the social circles of New York and Los Angeles, actress Nancy Olson Livingston has lived abundantly. In her memoir, A Front Row Seat, Livingston treats readers to an intimate, charming chronicle of her life as an actress, wife, and mother, and her memories of many of the most notable figures and moments of her time. Livingston shares reminiscences of her marriages to lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner, creator of award-winning musicals Paint Your Wagon, Gigi, and My Fair Lady (which was dedicated to her), and to Alan Wendell Livingston, former president of Capitol Records, who created Bozo the Clown and worked with legendary musical artists, including Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Band, and Don McLean. One of the last living actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Livingston shares memorable encounters with countless celebrities-William Holden, Billy Wilder, Bing Crosby, Marilyn Monroe, and John Wayne, to name a few-and less pleasant experiences with Howard Hughes and John F. Kennedy that act as reminders of women's long struggle for equality. Entertaining and engrossing, A Front Row Seat deftly interweaves Livingston's life with her observations of the artists, celebrities, and luminaries with whom she came in contact-a paean to the twentieth century and a treasure for readers enamored with a bygone era.

Autor

Nancy Olson Livingston, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sunset Boulevard (1950), has appeared in several films, including Union Station (1950), Battle Cry (1955), Pollyanna (1960), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), and Airport 1975 (1974). She has also starred in three plays on Broadway: Tunnel of Love, Send Me No Flowers, and Mary, Mary, and guest-starred in a number of television shows. She lives in Beverly Hills, California.

Inhalt

Book I Introduction Letter to Liza and Jenny Lerner: Letter to Liza and Jenny Lerner
1. Rockland County, September 1950
2. The Beginning
3. My Ancestors
4. Growing Up in Milwaukee
5. The Lake
6. World War II
7. Theatrical Dreams
8. My First New York Adventure
9. Paramount Pictures: The Beginning of a Career
10. Sunset Boulevard
11. Hollywood
12. Marilyn Monroe
13. Courtship
14. The Dance
15. Lee and Ira Gershwin
16. The Dance Continues
17. Marriage
18. Frederick Lowe
19. Rockland County
20. Plane Crash
21. Liza and Me
22. John Wayne
23. Starting Over
24. Alan Lerner's Family and Growing Up
25. Joe Lerner
26. My Fair Lady
27. Battle Cry
28. Journey to Broadway
29. Gigi
30. The Music Stops
31. Divorce
32. Sidney Chaplin
33. Emmet Hughes
34. Nelson Rockefeller
35. Life as a Single Parent
36. Disney
37. The Inauguration of JFK
38. Mrs. Kemeny
39. A Special Memory
40. A Shocking Story
41. A New Beginning
42. A Christmas Gift
43. Mary Mary
44. A Rainbow Emerging
45. My Second Wedding
45b. Book II Introduction: Letter to Chris Livingston
46. Mr. and Mrs. Alan W. Livingston
47. Moving
48. A Sad Story
49. My Second Husband
50. Laurie and Peter and Alan Jay
51. Life in a Whirlwind on Camden Drive
52. Dad
53. Capitol Records
54. Nat Cole
55. Up the Ladder
56. Frank Sinatra
57. NBC and Bonanza
58. An Ex-Girlfriend and an Ex-Wife
59. Judy Garland, Oscar Levant, and the 2000 Year Old Man
60. Enlarging the Family and JFK
61. The Beatles
62. The Beatles in My Mother's Garden
63. Christopher
64. Another Beatle Party
65. Russia
66. Share
67. Jennifer Jones
68. The Band
69. A Miracle
70. The End of an Era
71. MediaArts and Don McLean
72. EST
73. On Board at the Music Center
74. A New Challenge
75. Grace Kelly and the Heimlich Maneuver
76. Natalie Wood
77. My Mother
78. A New Path for Alan Livingston
79. An Escape
80. New York Life Again
81. An Unexpected Offer from Blue Ribbon
82. Changing Traditions
83. Four Weddings and Two Funerals
84. LA Politics
85. Nancy and Ronnie
86. 25th Anniversary Chairman
87. Another 25th Anniversary with Jack Lemmon, Gregory Peck, and Michael Feinstein
88. Billy Wilder Tribute
89. Andrew Lloyd Webber
90. An Unforgettable Moment
91. China
92. Another Challenge for Alan
93. Completion
94. Expanding Our Family Again
95. Goodbye
96. La Dolce Vita
97. Laura
98. Family Updates
99. Ending this Book
100. Stories I Hesitate to Tell
101. Ending this Book Again

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Screen Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Screen Classics
• Zusatzinfo: 44 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Academy Award • Alan Jay Lerner • alan wendell livingston • Beatles • Billy Wilder • Broadway • Capitol Records • flubber • Gender equality • Gloria Swanson • Hollywood • JFK • Marilyn Monroe • music • My Fair Lady • Record • Sunset Boulevard • William Holden
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-9621-3 / 0813196213
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9621-3 / 9780813196213