However, it is his accounts of working and partying with the legends of the silver screen - from Lawrence Oliver and Vivien Leigh to Elizabeth Taylor, Noel Coward and dozens of others - that turn this memoir into an outright masterpiece.Īn intimate, gossipy, warm and above all charming account of life inside Hollywood's dream factory, The Moon is a Balloon is a classic to be read and enjoyed time and again. A classic and entertaining autobiography. Takes readers back to David Nivens childhood days, his humiliating. In this bestselling autobiography, Niven shows how, even as an unknown young man, he knew how to live the good life, regaling us with tales of school expulsion and wartime hi-jinks. David Niven was an accomplished actor and writer in the golden years of Hollywood. David Niven The Moons a Balloon An autobiography 1971, EN Reminiscences by David Niven. Lots of pink gin, and it all goes down and up very easily.ONE OF THE BESTSELLING MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME WITH OVER FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEĭiscover the heartfelt, laugh-out-loud account of one of Hollywood's greatest actors and, above all, greatest menĭebonair English wit and humourist extraordinaire, star of The Pink Panther, Casino Royal and Around the World in 80 Days, few Hollywood actors are remembered as fondly as David Niven. Cummings' balloon is ""filled with pretty people"" - Noel Coward and lan Fleming, Norma Shearer and Vivien Leigh, the Bogarts, the Colmans, you name them and he does because they were part of his life. There's his marriage to Primula with whom he was ""wonderfully in love"" and who died, falling down a cellar stairs a second one which almost ended differently to a beautiful Swedish model and in between E.E.
A little Mayfair socializing, and Barbara Hutton, took him to New York for some of his greener salad days but he was to learn he really didn't belong, went on to Hollywood, and became the almost first unknown to be signed on a seven-year contract by Sam Goldwyn. At 14, Niven met Nessie on the streets who brightened much of his early life - self-described as ""an 'ore wiv an 'eart of fuckin' gold"" who proved to be a very good friend to David and some of his friends at the school where he first found himself before going on to Sandhurst. PENGUIN BOOKS THE MOON'S A BALLOON David Niven was one of Britain's best-known actors and, in later years, a bestselling author his autobiography. The almost always outspoken memoir of that suave - well what else could he be - blithe bon vivant from the time (101/2) when he was expelled from school for a not very funny practical joke.
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