Full name: Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them

Author: Frank Langella Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062094476 9780062094490 0062094475 0062094491

Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight; Elizabeth Taylor tenderly wrapping him in her Pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York street... Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank Langella's myriad encounters with some of the past century's most famous human beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes shocking, and utterly irresistible. With sharp wit and a perceptive eye, Mr. Langella takes us with him into the private worlds and privileged lives of movie stars, presidents, royalty, literary lions, the social elite, and the greats of the Broadway stage. We learn something, too, of Mr. Langella's personal journey from the age of fifteen to the present day. Dropped Names is, like its subjects, riveting and unforgettable. Similar books: Nevertheless by Alec Baldwin The Bill from My Father by Bernard Cooper Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin Kiss Me Like A Stranger by Gene Wilder Home Work by Julie Andrews Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli Looking Back by Lois Lowry Life Beyond Measure by Sidney Poitier In Spite of Myself by Christopher Plummer Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary Traci Lords: Underneath It All by Traci Lords Ron Jeremy by Ron Jeremy Still Me by Christopher Reeve Then Again by Diane Keaton When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls