Fly Away Home: Memoirs of a Hollywood Stuntman - Hardcover

Weld, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0962569615 ISBN 13: 9780962569616

Publisher: Mission Pub, 1991

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Book by Weld, John

About this title

From Library Journal:

The subtitle here is misleading inasmuch as the book basically covers a period of about four decades, and Weld worked as a stunt man only from 1923 to 1926. The rest of the time he spent primarily as a reporter, an assistant to actor Walter Huston, and a novelist. Libraries owning Weld's Young Man in Paris ( LJ 2/1/85) will find some material transcribed verbatim from that book to this, but Weld is a skilled raconteur, and his tales of encounters with the unknown as well as the famous (James Joyce, Alexander Calder, Clark Gable, Legs Diamond, et al.) are entertaining.
- John Smothers, Mon mouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Now 86, Weld has held a variety of jobs including vaudeville entertainer, movie stuntman, reporter, novelist, press agent and film producer. The list of famous people he has known as he has moved from Tinseltown to Paris in the '20s, thence to New York, Detroit and back to the West Coast ranges from Franklin Roosevelt to James Joyce, Alexander Calder, Clark Gable, Louella Parsons, Maxwell Perkins and Legs Diamond. He has had an eventful life, and here in his ninth book Weld ( Don't You Cry for Me ) recaptures much of the excitment--that is, until he finds marital bliss in the early '40s and his story just fades away. Photos.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mission Pub
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0962569615
• ISBN 13: 9780962569616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 249