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Books : Pieces of My Heart: A Life |
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092
EAN: 9780061373312
ISBN: 0061373311
Label: HarperEntertainment
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Studio: HarperEntertainment
Sales Rank: 1238
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In this moving memoir, Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible life
He grew up in Bel Air next door to a golf course that changed his life. As a young boy, he saw a foursome playing one morning featuring none other than Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Randolph Scott, and Cary Grant. Seeing these giants of the silver screen awed him and fueled his dreams of becoming a movie star. Battling a revolving door of boarding schools and a father who wanted him to forget Hollywood and join the family business, sixteen-year-old Wagner started like any naïve kid would—walking along Sunset Boulevard, hoping that a producer or director would notice him.
Under the mentorship of stars like Spencer Tracy, he would become a salaried actor in Hollywood's studio system among other hot actors of the moment such as his friends Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis. Working with studio mogul Darryl Zanuck, Wagner began to appear in a number of films alongside the most beautiful starlets—but his first love was Barbara Stanwyck, an actress twice his age. As his career blossomed, and after he separated from Stanwyck, he met the woman who would change his life forever, Natalie Wood. They fell instantly and deeply in love and stayed together until the stress of their careers—hers marching upward, his inexplicably deflating—drove them to divorce.
Trying to forget the pain, he made more movies and spent his time in Europe with the likes of Steve McQueen, Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Liz Taylor, and Joan Collins. He would meet and marry the beautiful former model and actress Marion Marshall. Together they had a daughter and made their way back to America, where he found himself at the beginning of a new era in Hollywood—the blossoming of television. Lew Wasserman and later Aaron Spelling would work with Wagner as he produced and starred in some of the most successful programs in history.
Despite his newfound success, his marriage to Marion fell apart. He looked no further than Natalie Wood, for whom he still pined. To the world's surprise, they fell in love all over again, this time more deeply and with maturity. As she settled into a domestic life, raising their own daughter, Courtney, as well as their children from previous marriages, Wagner became the sole provider, reaping the riches of television success. Their life together was cut tragically short, though, when Wood died after falling from their yacht.
For the first time, Wagner writes about that tremendously painful time. After a serious bout with depression, he finally resurfaced and eventually married Jill St. John, who helped keep his family and his fractured heart together.
With color photographs and never-before-told stories, this is a quintessentially American story of one of the great sons of Hollywood.
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He was the young bad guy who fell off the Mountain with Spencer Tracy.
He was the young good guy who fell off the Titanic with Barbara Stanwyck.
He was the young evil guy who heaved Joanne Woodward off a high-rise in A Kiss Before Dying.
He was young thief who climbed rooftops in It Takes a Thief.
You get the idea.
What a career and life he's had. That said, since it's an autobio, it must be taken with a grain of salt. Overall he retains my admiration for his ... Read More
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I purchased this book thinking RJ Wagner was a classy gent. What I got out of it was an entirely different look at who this man really is. His use of the C and D words seemed completely unnecessary as did his comments about someone named OK, and David Niven's private parts. Really, did we need to know this. I can't believe this man has three daughters and would use such degrading terms to describe men and women's anatomy. I blame myself for not opening the book before I purchased it. The F____ C____ ... Read More
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Actor Robert Wagner's memoir is a supremely one-sided affair, curdled with cuteness, ego, and apparent contempt for anyone who stands up to him. What fascinates most in this misbegotten movie star venture is what Wagner doesn't say. He goes into great detail when recounting conversations in which he himself is the patron saint of sensibility--yet, if the occasion hinges dangerously on Wagner's own jealousy, temper, and foul mouth, the interplay in the book grows increasingly static. We learn no more about ... Read More
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My purchase was supposed to have been a Christmas present for my Oma, but I never received it. Nor did I receive an email back from the seller when I sent one over a week ago questioning the whereabouts of my order.
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Sometimes Hollywood biographies are grating. You spend so much time reading about the author's family that you begin wondering if the the book is about them or someone else. Thankfully there are those written like Robert Wagner's.
Robert Wagner, to be honest, isn't someone I would run to TCM to see him in one of his roles, but he does represent a different era of Hollywood, and he does a fine job of reflecting on that world in his book.
His brief tidbits and reminisces about Spencer ... Read More
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