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Just Outside the Spotlight: Growing Up with Eileen Heckart

• Renowned character actress Heckart knew everybody in Hollywood — and her son spills

the stories she could never tell

• Juicy tidbits about Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Lucille Ball, Paul Newman, Bette Davis, Ethel Merman, and dozens of others

• Part memoir, part scrapbook, part scandal sheet — unusual and enjoyable

• Book has been endorsed by more than a dozen celebs, including Ellen DeGeneres, Betty White, Goldie Hawn, and Joanne Woodward

Rex Reed called this memoir of award-winning character actress Eileen Heckart “touching, hilarious, enthralling” — and readers everywhere will call it fabulous! Written by Heckart’s son, this unusual biography tells all the tales that Heckart heard and saw in her fifty-year career in movies, theater, and TV. Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning actress Heckart, she of the foghorn voice and forward-leaning gait, worked with most of the greatest stars of the twentieth century. Wait till you read the one about Dietrich and — wait, can’t tell that one here. Or the one about — nope, not that one either. Oh, well. Just Outside the Spotlight is a remarkable memoir, packed with heartwarming family photos and never-before-seen images of stars, and with unforgettable anecdotes.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 320
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780823078882
  • Release date
  • 2006