Pardon My Hearse: A Colorful Portrait of Where the Funeral and Entertainment Industries Met in Hollywood - Couverture souple

Abbott, Allan; Abbott, Greg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1610352483 ISBN 13 : 9781610352482

Editeur : Linden Publishing Co Inc, 2016

Synopsis

Even celebrities die -- and he was the man who picked up the bodies! Allan Abbott ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in Hollywood and got an unprecedented glimpse of how celebrities really live and die. The Forrest Gump of the funeral industry, Abbott was everywhere celebrities died, from helping to prepare Marilyn Monroe s body for burial to standing next to Christopher Walken at Natalie Wood s funeral. Now in his memoir Pardon My Hearse, Abbott tells the rags-to-shroud story of how we went from a young man with a hearse to the funeral driver to the stars a rollicking, unexpectedly hilarious story of glamorous funerals, mishaps with corpses, and true-life glimpses of celebrities at their most revealing moments. This is an eye-opening look at secret Hollywood from the man who literally knows where the bodies are buried.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Allan Abbott is the co-founder of Abbott & Hast Mortuary, Inc., Southern California's leading funeral home and mortuary service company.

Greg Abbott, Allan's son, is the former managing editor of Abbott & Hast Publications, producers of Mortuary Management magazine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Linden Publishing Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1610352483
• ISBN 13: 9781610352482
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible