Bring On The Empty Horses

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He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, ‘whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all’. In 1981, Niven published a second and much more successful novel, Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly, which was set during and after World War II, and drew on his experiences during the war and in Hollywood. My favourite biographies are always the ones that give good stories on their co-stars, their friends, the great gossip of the real Hollywood in the heyday of Hollywood.

This book is just a literary form of an evening spent over drinks with your larger-than-life uncle or your slightly conman type friend/friendly neighbourhood raconteur/story-teller. He won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Major Pollock in Separate Tables, his only nomination for an Oscar. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. The first part of his biography, The Moon in a Balloon, was a best seller as was the second part - Bring On The Empty Horses.All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps.

You can tell he holds back or changes some details to be fair to his subjects, but the reading is still fun. All the women were 'stunningly beautiful' and all the men were 'everyone's favourite fellow', and every story involved vast quantities of scotch or gin.Appena arrivato ho iniziato a leggerlo avidamente, una visione dall'interno del clima che si viveva negli Studios negli anni d'oro del cinema americano. I could have used a little less about the peculiarities of William Randolph Hearst and the tough row his mistress, Marion Davies, had to hoe -- it was sympathetic toward her but to me was the only part of the book that got repetitious. This autobiography read likes a desription of the classic Hollywood of the 30's to the 50's and is informative but most of all it is fun to read. There are very few villains here (except of course, the newspaper columnists and the committee hunting communists- I forget its name), and all the stories are told with understated wit and humour.