Bring On The Empty Horses

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Second impression hard back binding in publisher's original pink cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Written in much the same lightly flippant, entertaining style, he focuses on personalities such as Louis B. The big stars like Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, and Humphrey Bogart are all mentioned; the film directors and producers like Samuel Goldwyn, John Huston, Michael Curtiz, William Wellman, and all the other inhabitants that made Hollywood the magical place it was - while gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper intimidated many personalities with their "items" publicised in the scandal sheets.

This is the follow-up to David Niven's first memoir ( The Moon's a Balloon), but this book is centered on the stories of Niven's friends and co-stars and directors. Its all there to make this book an entertaining delight for the reader that I think will grab and hold your attention from start to finish. Some of the impact/charm of the writing is lost by the fact that these stories don't actually all belong to Niven, despite his use of the first-person throughout. He subsequently appeared in another 30 films, including The Guns of Navarone (1961) The Pink Panther (1963), Murder by Death (1976), Death on the Nile (1978), and The Sea Wolves (1980). We hear an amusing story about Edward Goulding's funeral complete with the worst pallbearer casting in history.It is surprising really as I am not a fan of David Niven and did not know a great deal about him prior to reading this book. David Niven was also a very campionable sort of the chap, liked fishing, yatching, lots of drinking and making love to beatutiful women, as well as the power struggles of the studio tycoons. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the second part of David Niven’s internationally bestselling autobiography, following the superbly entertaining THE MOON’S A BALLOON.

There are very few villains here (except of course, the newspaper columnists and the committee hunting communists- I forget its name), and all the stories are told with understated wit and humour. Niven, above all things, is a storyteller; and his recountment of the Hollywood heyday (essentially the '30s through the 50's) is magical exploration of an era that was at once special and something impossible to mimic.But this isn't really a memoir, anyway, it's more of a bunch of fairly disconnected Hollywood anecdotes, some quite compelling. Otherwise you miss out on a great and funny book that has been written by one of the humble and funniest men in cinema ever. Firstly, with working from home I was able to work and listen to David Niven read his own book to you, adding a great personal touch to his autobiography. There's a discipline missing in the first book, although the familiar, more casual voice of the first book does reappear as the book progresses, so I don't know how much is Niven?

All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. p>The data controller is Headline Publishing Group Limited. These stories run from tragic ("Our Missie" - about Vivien Leigh) to fanciful (adventures with Errol Flynn). This book is just a literary form of an evening spent over drinks with your larger-than-life uncle or your slightly conman type friend/friendly neighbourhood raconteur/story-teller. So bring on the empty horses and fill their saddles with shades of Cooper, Gable, Fairbanks and Flynn.Personally, I wish there had been more about the filming of THE MOON IS BLUE (1953) and PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES (1960, of which not a word is said). He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, 'whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all'.

Hollywood at its best and at its worst - the movers and the skakers all captured in this fascinating look at 'Tinsel Town' . Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material.You lousy bums,” Curtiz shouted, “you and your stinking language…you think I know fuck nothing…well, let me tell you – I know FUCK ALL! A lot of the names in this book are mostly forgotten, unless you are a classic movie fan of the 30's and 40's like myself. You spend an entire evening and talk into the night recounting their mis-adventures, hilarious scrapes and some deliciously engaging anecdotes whose veracity you can never be 100% certain about.