Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Biography & Memoir, International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780753515723
Published: July 2009
Imprint: Virgin Books
Page Extent: 400
Format: Paperback
RRP 380.00

American Prince

Peter Golenbock, Tony Curtis

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He has appeared in over a hundred films. Elvis copied his looks. The Beatles put him on the cover of Sgt. Pepper. Tony Curtis is without question a Hollywood legend and part of its Golden Age. In American Prince he tells the whole story, from his hard-knock childhood growing up in the Bronx to his wild days as a Hollywood playboy, his destructive drug addiction and his life now as an artist in his eighties. He talks frankly about the people he has known during his long and illustrious career, from the studio owners and directors to his famous friends, such as Jack Lemmon, Cary Grant and James Dean, and the women in his life, including Janet Leigh and Natalie Wood.

Forthright and enthralling, and sparing no detail and no ego, American Prince is the true...

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Peter Golenbock

Peter Golenbock

Peter Golenbock has written some of sports’ most important books, including Dynasty: The New York Yankees 1949–64; The Bronx Zoo, which he wrote in 1979 with New York Yankees pitcher Sparky Lyle; BUMS: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers; Personal Fouls, a look at corruption in college basketball; American Zoom, a history of NASCAR; and Wild, High and Tight, his biography of Yankees manager Billy Martin. Golenbock lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis was one of Hollywood’s greatest stars. He lived with his wife, Jill, outside of Las Vegas, where he found additional careers as a painter and founder of the Shiloh Horse Rescue and Sanctuary, a nonprofit foundation that rehabilitates abused and neglected horses for adoption. He died in 2010.

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