Gig Young Signed Page Bio Movie Actor Bette Davis Crawford Suicide Photos HC/DJ

Description: Final Gig - The Man Behind The Murder by George Eells, copyright 1991 This book with dustjacket is in very good condition - Dust jacket in very good condition with no wear - inside the book has no torn nor missing pages nor writing ......... (see photos) Signed Info page attached on title page "Gig Young" The story of Gig Young, suave player of burned-out cases and a severely burned-out case himself; told smoothly by the author of bios of Ginger Rogers, Robert Mitchum, Mae West, and others. Drawing on private tapes Young left behind, Eells works up an analysis that shows believably how, as a child, Young came to play a victim's role, and, as an adult, that of a well-mannered boob. When he could not find love from his repressed, neurasthenic mother or dour Scottish father back in St. Cloud, Minn., shy Byron Ellsworth Barr turned to his older sister Genevieve—a pattern of turning to women for help that followed him all his life. More than once, he heard that he'd resulted from a ``leak in the safe'' (faulty condom), and his father always introduced him as a "little dumbbell.'' In the late 30's, Young had one of the first vasectomies, and later in life found himself married but unmanned by alcohol or drugs. He was nominated for an Oscar three times, won at last for brilliantly playing a whiskey-throated dance-hall emcee in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?. When things got tough he tried an LSD cure, or he'd go on the road with Harvey. But mental blanks bugged him; his attempt to play alcoholic Jamie Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night failed disastrously; Mel Brooks fired him from Blazing Saddles before he'd played his first scene. Physically and emotionally spent at 64, he married for the fourth time, to Kim Schmidt, an Australian script girl of 30, and then, apparently still impotent, shot her to death, then himself, three weeks after their marriage. Young met actress Elizabeth Montgomery after she appeared in an episode of Warner Bros. Presents in 1956, and the two married later that year. In 1963, Montgomery divorced Young because of his alcoholism Also listed Barbara Payton, Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck SIGNED, Dolores Del Rio SIGNED, Frances Farmer, Peter Lorre , Mae West Signed, Lana Turner SIGNED, Yvonne de Carlo, Ginger Rogers SIGNED, Hollywood Fashion & Life & other Hollywood Items!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered on all items

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