Bring On The Empty Horses

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BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the second part of David Niven's internationally bestselling autobiography, following the superbly entertaining THE MOON'S A BALLOON. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

David Niven nos cuenta su experiencia en Hollywood a través de las relaciones de amistad que mantuvo con algunas de las estrellas de la época dorada: Gable, Flynn, Bogart y muchos otros. Niven was part of the Hollywood Raj, that group of ex-pat Englishmen who played cricket at the park off Sunset Boulevard and ate roast beef on Sundays, regardless of the California heat.I loved this book but am only giving it 4 stars because I like his autobiography The Moon's A Balloon sightly better and would give that one the extra star. David Niven is charming and with his down-to-earth narration, he relates many stories of his friendships, trials, antics, tragedies and the day-to-day lives of some of the greatest stars of the silver screen. In 1971, he published his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, which was well-received, selling over five million copies. These were times of legendary film stars and despotic producers, of tycoons, of oddballs, and of classic movies.

Its all there to make this book an entertaining delight for the reader that I think will grab and hold your attention from start to finish. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The gratuitous sexualization of every single woman under the age of 40 (and often times under the age of 20! Niven later appeared in The Elusive Pimpernel (1950), The Toast of New Orleans (1950), Happy Go Lovely (1951), Happy Ever After (1954) and Carrington V.

David Niven was in Hollywood from the 30's, mixing with the stars in heyday, lived and shared a home with Errol Flynn, parties all the time, playing tennis, go fishing with Clark Gable. BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the second part of David Niven’s internationally bestselling autobiography, following the superbly entertaining THE MOON’S A BALLOON. A big name-dropping bitch of a book written with a wit as sharp as a dagger - and more than one famous personality gets it right between the shoulder blades . When asked which biography/memoir I best prefer, I am unable to hold back my admiration of David Niven's work here in Bring on the Empty Horses. Tape shadow marks to the end papers where the dust wrapper was protected in brown paper, now removed.

Some of the impact/charm of the writing is lost by the fact that these stories don't actually all belong to Niven, despite his use of the first-person throughout. 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. Written in much the same lightly flippant, entertaining style, he focuses on personalities such as Louis B. Both books were highly acclaimed by the critics and remain as wonderful reminders of a much-loved actor who epitomised, for many, the essential British gent, even when surrounded by the stars of Hollywood. You see, she had also gone blind, losing the ability to read, and having to listen to audio tapes on an old fashioned cassette player, which wasn't, for her, the same enjoyment of reading black type on white pages.There's a discipline missing in the first book, although the familiar, more casual voice of the first book does reappear as the book progresses, so I don't know how much is Niven? He won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Major Pollock in Separate Tables, his only nomination for an Oscar. Mike Curtiz was the director of The Charge of the Light Brigade and his Hungarian-oriented English was a source of joy to us all. Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in a reasonable condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition.