Milton Berle: An Autobiography [*SIGNED*]
by Berle, Milton, with Haskel Frankel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dj
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1974). First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, light shelfwear only; the jacket has a tiny chip and a couple of short closed tears at the top of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED generically ("Love / Milton Berle") on the front endpaper The "startling" autobiography of the TV icon, who never let the facts get in the way of a good story. (For starters, consider his bogus claim that his showbiz career was kicked off at the age of 5 when he won a children's Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest -- in 1913, the year before Chaplin first set foot in front of a movie camera, and at a time when hardly anybody in America even knew who he was. He makes similar claims for uncredited childhood screen appearances in the 1910s (involving an unlikely timeline), and I myself once witnessed him claim, in front of a large crowd at a public event, that he had been one of the orphans-in-peril saved by Mary Pickford in SPARROWS, a film made when he was 17 years old.) He also alleges, per the jacket blurb, "surprising romantic liaisons" with Aimee Semple McPherson and Marilyn Monroe, but I'd suggest taking these with a big grain of salt also; in fact, as you read the book you might just want to have a full shaker of salt at your elbow. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is FREE.**** Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28773
- Title
- Milton Berle: An Autobiography [*SIGNED*]
- Author
- Berle, Milton, with Haskel Frankel
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Paul Bacon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1974)
- Keywords
- Actors, Comedians, Show Business, Signed, Autobiography
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