Dancing at Ciro's : A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset Strip

by Sheila Weller

• ISBN13: 9780312283018
• ISBN10: 0312283016
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-03-12
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

In 1958, young Sheila Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then her world exploded after she witnessed her uncle's brutal attempt to kill her father. Weller has written a deeply felt memoir of her family's life contrasted with those most glamorous days of Hollywood's forties and fifties. While vividly describing Lana Turner's, Frank Sinatra's, and Sammy Davis Jr.'s evenings--and breakdowns--at Ciro's, Weller casts a keen eye on her own family's turmoil and loss.

Author Biography

Sheila Weller is the author of many books, including Marrying the Hangman: A True Story of Privilege, Marriage, and Murder and The New York Times bestseller Raging Heart: The Intimate Story of the Tragic Marriage of O. J. and Nicole Brown Simpson. A Senior Contributing Editor at Glamour, she has written for New York, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, Self, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Ms., and Rolling Stone. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beverly Hills: January 8, 1958	p. 1
New York: 1887-1918	p. 21
New York: 1919-1932	p. 36
New York: 1932-1936	p. 61
New York and California: 1935-1939	p. 75
Hollywood: 1939-1941	p. 97
Hollywood, New York, Boston, Hollywood: 1941-1943	p. 125
Hollywood, Boston, New York Hollywood: 1942-1945	p. 152
Hollywood and Beverly Hills: 1946-1951	p. 185
Hollywood and Beverly Hills: 1948-1952	p. 211
Beverly Hills and Hollywood: 1952-1955	p. 237
Beverly Hills and Hollywood: 1955-1958	p. 251
Beverly Hills: 1958-1959	p. 271
Beverly Hills; The High Seas; Great Neck, New York: 1959-1962	p. 296
Afterword	p. 323
Acknowledgments	p. 333
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