"THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR: The Secret Life" reads as both a biography of Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated the throne in December 1936, as well as a fully fleshed-out story of the life she and Edward (aka the Duke of Windsor) had together from their marriage in France in June 19...
I picked this up on remainder, in an edition that had obviously been rushed out to take advantage of the release of the Hughes biopic "The Aviator" (which I have not seen). Higham cites a massive number of sources and original interviews in his closing pages; why, then, do I still feel when reading ...
Considering it was written back in the 60s and a lot has happened in film studies since then, I still thought it held up pretty well.
[These notes were made in 1992:]. Read in the 1989 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich edition. I don't know who was the lead on this project - both Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, his co-author, recount incidents of personal interaction with Grant, and both have written about other Hollywood personalities of...
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