The long-awaited memoir from one of daytime television's
most celebrated and beloved actresses. Three or four days
a week, Jeanne Cooper drives from her Hollywood Hills home
to the job she's held for more than three decades:
bringing life to the character of Katherine Chancellor,
the outspoken, powerful, and insanely wealthy force of
nature who, along with Jeanne herself, has become a legend
in the world of daytime television and its number-one
show, The Young and the Restless. Now, for the first time,
her fans will get to know the woman behind the iconic
character. With her signature fearlessness, honesty, and
humor, Jeanne chronicles her long tenure in Hollywood and
describes her life before, during, and away from the CBS
soundstage. Not Young, Still Restless follows Jeanne as
she makes her way from small-town Taft, California, to the
heart of the Los Angeles movie industry, where the list of
her feature-film costars reads like a Who's Who of
Hollywood's Golden Age—Maureen O'Hara, Raymond Burr, David
Janssen, Robert Taylor, Tony Curtis, Shelley Winters,
Glenn Ford, and Lee J. Cobb, to name just a few. Jeanne
writes vividly of her first foray into the new phenomenon
of television and how she found her home at The Young and
the Restless. Jeanne's story charts the ups and downs of a
long and rich life, including the breakup of a marriage
that produced the three great loves of her life—her
daughter, Caren, and her sons Collin and the actor Corbin
Bernsen—before it ended, leaving her a single working
mother. She also speaks honestly and openly about her
battles to overcome alcoholism, defeat breast cancer, and
age gracefully in Hollywood, a process that made her the
first reality-television star when her character's (and
her own) face-lift was filmed live on The Young and the
Restless. In Not Young, Still Restless, the Emmy Award–
winning actress inspires readers with her ability not only
to survive but thrive as an octogenarian in today's
Hollywood.
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