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Twenty years after his death, David Niven is remembered with warmth and affection as one of the funniest and most lovable men who ever lived. Much the same off-screen as the characters he portrayed, he enchanted people with his charisma, humor, and joie de vivre. Yet behind those twinkling eyes, Niven's life was punctuated by tragedy. Written with the full cooperation of Niven's children, Niv is the authorized account of his remarkable life.
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Graham Lord was for twenty-three years the literary editor and weekly books columnist at the Sunday Express.
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How do you write a biography of a film star whose memoirs are already considered among the best the genre has to offer? Lord, former editor of London's Sunday Express, begins by pointing out that the tales in Niven's books were frequently exaggerated, if not outright fiction, then sets out to gently correct the record. The real story is filled with absorbing details, particularly when Lord recounts the young Niven's struggle to make it in Hollywood and his varied military career during WWII. But as the "authorized" biographer of Niven (1910–1983), Lord is often overly sympathetic to the actor, most notably when the subject turns to "Niv's" second marriage to a Swedish model. Lord and his interviewees repeatedly attack the wife for alcoholism, extramarital affairs and an allegedly ridiculous desire to be an actress, while shrugging off Niven's constant womanizing and heavy drinking. Other unsavory aspects of his personality, like his treatment of his book publishers, are similarly glossed over. It's worth noting, however, that an overwhelming number of Niven's films are described as among his worst; even The Pink Panther is surprisingly dismissed as "dreadfully unfunny." Yet such harsh critical assessments do little to diminish Niven in his biographer's eyes, and the star's reputation as a lovable raconteur remains untarnished, even by the truth. Photos.
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0786274476
- ISBN 13 9780786274475
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages775
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