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Girl singer : an autobiography

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	ML420.C58 A3 1999	Off-site

Additional Authors

Barthel, Joan.

Description

336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Rosemary Clooney made her first public appearance at the age of three, on the stage of the Russell Theater in her tiny hometown of Maysville, Kentucky, singing "When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver," an odd but perhaps prophetic choice for one so young.
She has been singing ever since: on local radio; with Tony Pastor's orchestra; in big-box-office Hollywood films; at the Hollywood Bowl, the London Palladium, and Carnegie Hall; on her own television series; and at venues large and small across the country and around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
"At the age of twenty-five, Rosemary Clooney married the erudite and respected actor Jose Ferrer, sixteen years her senior and light-years more sophisticated. Trouble started almost immediately when, on her honeymoon, she discovered that he had already been unfaithful. Finally, after having five children while she almost single-handedly supported the entire family and endured Ferrer's numerous, unrepentant infidelities, she filed for divorce.
From there her life spiraled downward into depression, addiction to various prescription drugs, and then, in 1968, a breakdown and hospitalization."--BOOK JACKET. "After years spent fighting her way back to the top, Rosemary Clooney is now married to one of her first and long-lost loves - a true fairy tale with a happy ending. She's been nominated for four Grammys in six years and has had two albums at the top of the Billboard charts."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

0385493347

LCCN

99024342

OCLC

ocm40979933

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries