IF at this moment you are in a bookstore leafing through these
early pages and wondering if the whole thing is worth a sizable ex-
penditure, may I suggest that you keep your back toward the sales-
man and read on because, coming up, is a brief description of what
this book is all about.
To be an actor, it is essential to be an egomaniac; otherwise it
just doesn t work. The supreme act of egomania is to sit down and
write x3o,ooo words about oneself. That I have already done in
The Moon s a Balloon, so you will be relieved to learn that this is
not a book about David Niven... at least, it is not meant to be.
Unfortunately, the actor s urge to take up a firm position at center
stage is a strong one, and if, despite valiant efforts to remain in the
wings, I have, on occasion, eased myself forward, I apologize.
This book is about Hollywood; not the whole mishmash,
because that has been done a hundred times, and anyway, the
canvas is too huge and quite beyond my mini-brushwork, so I have
attempted to splash a little color on just one comer--the twenty-
five years between 1935 and 196o.
I was there from "extra" on down (or up--it s for you to decide),
and I was part of it, but I have made little effort to keep things in
chronological order; provided the people and events coincided with
the allotted time span, I have just described them as I saw them.
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