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I Said Yes to Everything
Lee Grant
Blue Rider Press
July 2014
On Sale: July 8, 2014
480 pages
ISBN: 039916930X
EAN: 9780399169304
Kindle: B00G3L7WOM
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee
Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than
most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed
Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legendary Actors
Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue “It Girl.” At
age twenty-four, she was nominated for an Academy Award for
Detective Story, and a year later found herself married and
a mother for the first time, her career on the rise. And then she lost it all. Her name landed on the Hollywood blacklist, her offers for
film and television roles ground to a halt, and her marriage
fell apart. Finding reserves of strength she didn’t know she had, Grant
took action against anti-Communist witch hunts in the arts.
She threw herself into work, accepting every theater or
teaching job that came her way. She met a man ten years her
junior and began a wild, liberating fling that she never
expected would last a lifetime. And after twelve years of
fighting the blacklist, she was finally exonerated. With
courage and style, Grant rebuilt her life on her own terms:
first stop, a starring role on Peyton Place, and then leads
in Valley of the Dolls, In the Heat of the Night, and
Shampoo, for which she won her first Oscar. Set amid the New York theater scene of the fifties and the
star-studded parties of Malibu in the seventies, I Said Yes
to Everything evokes a world of political passion and
movie-star glamour. Grant tells endlessly delightful tales
of costars and friends such as Warren Beatty, Elizabeth
Taylor, Grace Kelly, and Sidney Poitier, and writes with the
verve and candor befitting such a seductive and beloved star.
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