A Front Row Seat : An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour /

From her idyllic childhood in the American Midwest to her Oscar-nominated performance in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and the social circles of New York and Los Angeles, actress Nancy Olson Livingston has lived abundantly. In her memoir, A Front Row Seat, Livingston treats readers to an intimate, charmin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Olson, Nancy, 1928- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lerner, Alan Jay, > 1918-1986.
Olson, Nancy, > 1928-
Women.
Actresses.
Women > United States > Biography.
Actresses > United States > Biography.
United States.
California > Los Angeles > Hollywood.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 Rockland County, September 1950
  • 2 The Beginning
  • 3 My Ancestors
  • 4 Growing Up in Milwaukee
  • 5 The Lake
  • 6 World War II
  • 7 Theatrical Dreams
  • 8 My First New York Adventure
  • 9 Paramount Pictures--the Beginning of a Career
  • 10 Sunset Boulevard
  • 11 Hollywood
  • 12 Marilyn Monroe
  • 13 Courtship
  • 14 The Dance
  • 15 Lee and Ira Gershwin
  • 16 The Dance Continues
  • 17 Marriage
  • 18 Frederick Loewe
  • 19 Rockland County
  • 20 Plane Crash
  • 21 Liza and Me
  • 22 John Wayne
  • 23 Starting Over
  • 24 Alan Lerner's Family and Growing Up
  • 25 Joe Lerner
  • 26 My Fair Lady
  • 27 Battle Cry
  • 28 Journey to Broadway
  • 29 Gigi
  • 30 The Music Stops
  • 31 Divorce
  • 32 Sydney Chaplin
  • 33 Emmet Hughes
  • 34 Nelson Rockefeller
  • 35 Life as a Single Parent
  • 36 Disney
  • 37 The Inauguration of JFK
  • 38 Mrs. Kemeny
  • 39 A Special Memory
  • 40 A Shocking Story
  • 41 A New Beginning
  • 42 A Christmas Gift
  • 43 Mary, Mary
  • 44 A Rainbow Emerging
  • 45 My Second Wedding
  • Book 2
  • 46 Mr. and Mrs. Alan W. Livingston
  • 47 Moving
  • 48 A Sad Story
  • 49 My Second Husband
  • 50 Laurie and Peter and Alan Jay
  • 51 Life in a Whirlwind on Camden Drive
  • 52 Dad
  • 53 Capitol Records
  • 54 Nat Cole
  • 55 Up the Ladder
  • 56 Frank Sinatra
  • 57 NBC and Bonanza
  • 58 An Ex-Girlfriend and an Ex-Wife
  • 59 Judy Garland, Oscar Levant, and The 2000-Year-Old Man
  • 60 Enlarging the Family and JFK
  • 61 The Beatles
  • 62 The Beatles in My Mother's Garden
  • 63 Christopher
  • 64 Another Beatles Party
  • 65 Russia
  • 66 Share
  • 67 Jennifer Jones
  • 68 The Band
  • 69 A Miracle
  • 70 The End of an Era
  • 71 Mediarts and Don McLean
  • 72 EST
  • 73 On Board at the Music Center
  • 74 A New Challenge
  • 75 Grace Kelly and the Heimlich Maneuver
  • 76 Natalie Wood
  • 77 My Mother
  • 78 A New Path for Alan Livingston
  • 79 An Escape
  • 80 New York Life Again
  • 81 An Unexpected Offer from Blue Ribbon
  • 82 Changing Traditions
  • 83 Four Weddings and Two Funeral
  • 84 LA Politics
  • 85 Nancy and Ronnie
  • 86 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Chairman
  • 87 Another Twenty-Fifth Anniversary with Jack Lemmon, Gregory Peck, and Michael Feinstein
  • 88 Billy Wilder Tribute
  • 89 Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • 90 An Unforgettable Moment
  • 91 China
  • 92 Another Challenge for Alan
  • 93 Completion
  • 94 Expanding Our Family Again
  • 95 Goodbye
  • 96 La Dolce Vita
  • 97 Laura
  • 98 Family Updates
  • 99 Ending This Book
  • 100 Stories I Hesitate to Tell
  • 101 Ending This Book Again

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