Shelley II: The Middle of My Century - Softcover

Shelley Winters

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671701428 ISBN 13: 9780671701420

Publisher: Pocket, 1990

Synopsis

Spanning her career during the 1950s and 1960s, the actress describes her marriages to Vittorio Gassman and Tony Franciosa, her Oscar-winning role, the maturation of her political consciousness, and famous friends and lovers

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From Library Journal:

Continuing the story of her life begun in Shelley: Also Known as Shirley ( LJ 5/15/80), Winters takes us from the early 1950s through John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963. During this period she made two successful appearances on Broadway and won an Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank . In a prefatory note Winters says she has been somewhat less specific about her amatory exploits in this book, but she still relates affairs with Sterling Hayden, Sean Connery, and Albert Finney, among others, and adds some steamy episodes from her marriage with Tony Franciosa. Much of the fascination of the book stems from observing Winters's naive egocentricity, and wondering what scatterbrained thing she's going to do next. As usual, Winters is not too concerned with accuracy, but the readers who made her previous volume a best seller won't be disappointed by this entertaining follow-up.
- John Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Resuming her autobiography, following Shelley, Also Known as Shirley , Winters recalls fighting her "blond bombshell" image in films during the 1950s and '60s, her many affaires de coeur and her near religious devotion to the Actors Studio and to liberal politics. "Largely a gossip-lover's feast," determined PW , noting "no celebrity, seemingly, is missing from the autobiography of this Oscar winner." Photos.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0671701428
• ISBN 13: 9780671701420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576