Who can forget Rue McClanahan as the sexy Southern vixen,
Blanche Devereaux, on the Emmy-award winning series The
Golden Girls? With her breezy sex appeal and sharp
comedic timing, Rue infused her character with a sassy
joie de vivre
that captured the hearts of audiences around the world. Now, the
actress behind the magic reveals her life in and out of the
spotlight
in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men,
and getting
older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she
plays.
Raised
in small-town Oklahoma in a house βthirteen telephone poles
past the
standpipe north of town,β Rue developed her two great
passionsβtheater
and menβat an early age. She arrived in New York City in
1957 with
two-weeks worth of money in her pocket, hustled her way into
a class
with the legendary Uta Hagen, and began working her way up
in the
acting world against the vibrant, free-spirited backdrop of the
sixties. Thatβs when she met and married Husband #1βa
handsome rogue of
an aspiring actor who quickly left her with a young son.
Still, she was
determined to make it on the stage and screenβand in the
years that
followed, rose to the top of the entertainment world with a
host of
adventures (and husbands) along the way.
From her
roles on Broadway opposite Dustin Hoffman and Brad Davis, to
her first television appearances on Maude and All
in the Family, to the Golden Girls era and
beyond, My First Five Husbands
is the irresistible story of one womanβs quest to find
herself. Now
happily married to Husband #6, Rue is proof that many things
can and do
get better with ageβand that with tenacity, talent, and a
little help
from Saint Dymphna, even a small-town girl can make it big.
Told with Rueβs saucy wit and Southern charm, My
First Five husbands is a deliciously entertaining take
on life and love from an irrepressible star.
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