Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir (SIGNED BY PIPER LAURIE)

Piper Laurie

ISBN 10: 082302668X / ISBN 13: 9780823026685

Edité par Crown Archetype, 2011

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SIGNED FIRST PRINTING! Signed boldly on the title page "Piper Laurie". First printing of the first edition with full number line. Hardback book with dust jacket. The jacket has an "AUTOGRAPED COPY" sticker on the cover and sticker's covering the price info on the front flap and ISBN on the back. I've added a clear mylar cover and it looks very nice. The book is sharp, tight, crisp and clean.

N° de réf. du vendeur 38264-x-B51

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir (SIGNED BY PIPER LAURIE)
• Éditeur: Crown Archetype
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 082302668X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780823026685
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Learning to Live Out Loud One of Hollywood's most talented and memorable actresses ("The Hustler, Carrie") and three-time Oscar nominee presents an intimate memoir covering her life and career. Full description

Présentation de l'éditeur

An intimate memoir by three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie, one of Hollywood's most gifted and respected actresses

At the age of seventeen, in the glory days of movie-making, Piper Laurie was living every little girl’s dream. Having been selected by Universal Studios to be a contract star, Piper was removed from her acting class and provided with stylists, chaperones, leading roles, and handsome dates, and elevated to the heights of Hollywood. Her beauty was admired by the likes of Ronald Reagan, Howard Hughes, Paul Newman, Tony Curtis, as well as dozens of directors and legions of fans. Her name was emblazoned on marquees across America for hit movies of the fifties such as the The Prince Who Was a Thief, The Mississippi Gambler, and Ain’t Misbehavin’.

But Piper discovered early on that the little girl’s dream was not her own. Mortified by the shallowness of the roles and movies she was given, she longed for the freedom and fulfillment of her own artistic vision. After years in the studio system, shy Piper Laurie found her voice and the courage to burn her contract. It was only after she left the oppressive studio culture that she began to star in the TV shows, plays, and films that truly became the hallmarks of her career: The Glass Menagerie on Broadway, the original Days of Wine and Roses,  The Hustler, the iconic Carrie, and Twin Peaks. She grew into a three-time Oscar-nominated actress, an accomplished sculptor, and a director. 

This memoir is the inspiring tale of Piper’s perseverance to break from tradition and to practice her craft at the highest level. She started life as a withdrawn, mute child who couldn’t find her voice and was transformed into a woman who learned to live out loud by her own rules.