Originally Posted by ATDrake
The Other Side of the Moon: The Life of David Niven by the late British broadcaster and drama critic Sheridan Morley ( Wikipedia), who hosted a number of long-running shows for the BBC and briefly had a theatre biography prize named for him, is his show business celebrity biography of the late British actor ( Wikipedia) who starred in many classic films (and was apparently author Ian Fleming's first pick to play James Bond and later namedropped in one of the series' novels), drawing upon specially-conducted interviews with many of his colleagues as well as members of his family, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Dean Street Press.
This was originally published in 1985 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and has previously been offered free in 2016.
Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)
Description
Sheridan Morley wrote this biography of the consummate on-screen English gentleman after speaking to over 150 of Niven’s friends and colleagues (only Rex Harrison refused). The result is a picture which both supports and contradicts the charming vagabond persona depicted in Niven’s own bestselling memoirs.
While millions throughout his life were enchanted by Niven’s happy-go-lucky charisma and world-class anecdotage, he was in many respects a private figure, haunted by a fear of failure, and a victim of several key tragedies in his personal life. Morley’s biography is a warm, appreciative but perceptive account which captures both sides of one of Hollywood’s most enduringly lovable figures.
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