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This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor's, "21," and Sardi's, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, Latin Quarter, and El Morocco, were the nightly gathering spots for great figures of that era: movie and Broadway stars, baseball players, champion boxers, comedians, diplomats, British royalty, prize-winning authors, and famous painters. From Charlie Chaplin to Winston Churchill, from Ethel Barrymore to Sophia Loren, from George Burns to Ernest Hemingway, from Joe DiMaggio to the Duke of Windsor: Leonard Lyons knew them all. For forty glorious years, from 1934 to 1974, he made the daily rounds of Gotham nightspots, collecting the exclusive scoops and revelations that were at the core of his famous newspaper column, "The Lyons Den."
In this entertaining volume Jeffrey Lyons has assembled a considerable compilation of anecdotes from his father's best columns, and has also contributed a selection of his own interviews with stars of today, including Penélope Cruz and George Clooney, among others. Organised chronologically by decade and subdivided by celebrity, Stories My Father Told Me offers fascinating, amusing stories that are illustrated by approximately seventy photographs. He so captured the tenor of those exciting times that the great Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg said: "Imagine how much richer American history would have been had there been a Leonard Lyons in Lincoln's time."
Contents
Foreword by Charles Osgood Introduction 'The Thirties Irving Berlin George Burns Sir Charlie Chaplin Ty Cobb Gary Cooper Noel Coward Albert Einstein J. Edgar Hoover Sinclair Lewis Groucho Marx and his brothers W. Somerset Maugham Pablo Picasso George Bernard Shaw The Duke & Duchess of Windsor 'The Forties Tallulah Bankhead David Ben-Gurion Thomas Hart Benton Ingrid Bergman Milton Berle Humphrey Bogart Charles Boyer Winston Churchill Joe DiMaggio John Garfield Sam Goldwyn Cary Grant Howard Hughes George S. Kaufman Danny Kaye Helen Keller Charles Laughton Gypsy Rose Lee Oscar Levant George S. Patton Edward G. Robinson Carl Sandburg John Steinbeck Harry S. Truman Orson Welles 'The Fifties Lauren Bacall Marlon Brando Yul Brynner Ralph Bunche Marc Chagall Salvador Dali Kirk Douglas Jackie Gleason Rex Harrison Ernest Hemingway Audrey Hepburn Sir Alfred Hitchcock Judy Holliday Grace Kelly Ethel Merman James A. Michener Marilyn Monroe Lord Laurence Olivier Otto Preminger Rocky Marciano William Saroyan Phil Silvers Frank Sinatra 'The Sixties Brendan Behan Richard Burton Truman Capote Dustin Hoffman Lyndon B. Johnson John F. Kennedy Sophia Loren Paul Newman Barbra Streisand Billy Wilder Shelley Winters Peter Ustinov The Next Generation Antonio Banderas Javier Bardem Cate Blanchett Michael Caine George Carlin George Clooney Penelope Cruz Dame Judi Dench Clint Eastwood Ralph Fiennes Dennis Hopper Samuel L. Jackson Sir Ben Kingsley Jay Leno William Shatner Epilogue Index
