It Seemed Important At The Time

by Vanderbilt, Gloria

• ISBN13: 9780786272457
• ISBN10: 0786272457
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-02
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Summary

An elegant, witty, frank, touching, and deeply personal account of the loves both great and fleeting in the life of one of America's most celebrated and fabled women. Born to great wealth yet kept a virtual prisoner by the custody battle that raged between her proper aunt and her self-absorbed, beautiful mother, Gloria Vanderbilt grew up in a special world. Stunningly beautiful herself, yet insecure and with a touch of wildness, she set out at a very early age to find romance. And find it she did. There were love affairs with Howard Hughes, Bill Paley, and Frank Sinatra, to name a few, and one-night stands, which she writes about with delicacy and humor, including one with the young Marlon Brando. There were marriages to men as diverse as Pat De Cicco, who abused her; the legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, who kept his innermost secrets from her; film director Sidney Lumet; and finally writer Wyatt Cooper, the love of her life.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Romance	p. 3
The Scarlet Sting of Scandal	p. 4
Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolves	p. 11
The Great Thing	p. 16
Wedded Bliss ...	p. 32
Happy Birthday	p. 35
My Mummy--Later	p. 43
Much, Much Later ...	p. 45
Fantasia with Stokowski	p. 46
Breakfast at Tiffany's with the Tiny Terror	p. 53
Bill Paley and the Tiny Terror	p. 57
Dinner Chez Brando	p. 64
There's That Phone Call ...	p. 69
Miracle and Me	p. 71
King Arthur and Lady Guinevere	p. 79
A Red Rose	p. 81
Of Pink Tongues and How Serious and Sincere It All Was	p. 84
Fortune Cookies	p. 88
Over the Rainbow at Ten Gracie Square	p. 91
Fast Forward ...	p. 94
Le Divorce	p. 97
Once There Was a Couple ...	p. 100
Rock Bottom	p. 103
The Fantast	p. 108
Tweedledum and Tweedledee	p. 119
Another Part of the Forest	p. 127
Substitutes	p. 132
Hazel Kelly	p. 134
Someone Like You	p. 137
Fun	p. 143
Quite by Chance	p. 148
What Are You Going to Wear?	p. 154
Long Distance	p. 157
Epilogue	p. 160
Photography Credits	p. 162
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