"My Vagabond Lover" takes the reader inside Rudy and Eleanor Vallee's glamorous life in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Eleanor reveals the man behind the megaphone, takes the reader backstage, and gives the reader a peek into the private lives of a cast of Hollywood celebrities. Included are more than seventy previously unpublished photographs, ranging from classic film scenes to shots of the Vallees with the friends, personal letters, private diary entries, rare memorabilia, a selected discography, a filmography, and an index. This copy is clean and solid. It is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, inscribed on both the front free endpaper and the half-title page. A book review is laid in. A former owner's name stamp is on the bottom page edges.

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Title: MY VAGABOND LOVER: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY OF RUDY VALLEE
Publisher: Taylor Publishing, Dallas, TX
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0878339183
ISBN 13: 9780878339181
Binding: Cloth
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Traces the life and career of Rudy Vallee, describing his accomplishments in radio, motion pictures, and on Broadway

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When Rudy and Eleanor met in 1945, the Yalie "crooner" was already past the apotheosis he had reached during the Depression Era, and the schoolgirl had to ask her mother who Vallee was. They bridged the generation chasm with a steadfast affection that comes across more genuinely than any anecdote in this pallid biography. As a chronicle of Rudy's career, Eleanor's account is perplexing?in part because the author has an aversion to dates?but as a barometer of waning stardom, it is occasionally poignant. From television offers and film scenarios that never materialized to his Broadway "comeback," Eleanor focuses on the twilight of Rudy's career and offers the lasting lesson that fame is fickle. For all the book's good intentions, the result can be cloying, presumably because the author is too close to her subject. Less a biography, more a tribute to a legend past his prime, this is recommended for only the most comprehensive collections.?Jayne Plymale-Jackson, Univ. of Georgia Libs., Athens
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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