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Ruth Gordon was quite the actress! She also had QUITE the life! This book pulls no punches. She names names... actually drops names... she ran in quite an interesting circle. I am sure I've heard of maybe a tenth of the people she names in the book. It's a large book, three sets of photographs, written in a fast reading, breezy style. I find myself reading more rapidly than usual... feeling breathless. She describes how difficult it was for an ingenue to break into theater - the casting couch and all that. She describes the jet set before the jets were popular - going from town to town, living in hotels, traveling back and forth to Europe by ship. She was in MANY plays and movies. I only got to see her in a few when she was much older. I loved Harold and Maude. I always felt that Maude's character was close to that of the actress, herself.