Ann Margret My Story Author:Ann Margret "Not a year has gone by when I wasn't asked by a publisher to write my autobiography. I always said no. Yet I've come to a point in my life where I finally have the confidence to tell the story so many have sought. Why? The answer is simple: It's just time." -- Ann-Margaret — Ann-Margaret has dazzled screen and stage audiences as few entertainers... more » in our time. Her appearances in movies such as "Bye Bye Birdie", "Carnal Knowledge", and "Tommy", and in the acclaimed television miniseries "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles" and "Queen", and her recent record-breaking shows at Radio City Music Hall have made her a woman loved and admired, not just for her beauty and her legend, but for herself.
Yet until now the public has known only Ann-Margaret the star. Finally, we hear from Ann-Margaret the woman.
For years the Hollywood gossip mills portrayed her as self-destructive, an actress of bristling nerves, a wife controlled by a Svengali husband, and finally, a tragic heroine.
For the first time, Ann-Margaret opens the door to her private world, in a memoir that tells her life as it really was. Relentlessly honest, these pages are filled with warmth, wit, poignancy, and truth.
Readers will learn of her moving, longtime relationship with Elvis Presley; her battle with and inspriing recovery from alchohol abuse; her loss and reclamation of her self-esteem; and her harrowing twenty-foot fall onstage, after which doctors feared she would never dance again. Readers will also laern the story behind her twenty-nine-year love affair with husband Roger Smith, and of his battle with myasthenia gravis, a disease that forced Ann-Margaret, who had always been protected by her husband and family, to take control of not only her life but her husband's as well. Here, too, are wonderful behind-the-scenes tales about costars Bette Davis, George Burns, John Wayne, Jack Nicholson, and Steve McQueen, to name a few.
But "Ann-Margaret: My Story" is ultimately about this remarkable candid woman herself, finding her own way, seeking independance, becoming an accomplished actress and - more important - a woman of guts, humor, energy, and inspiriation.« less
An easy read about the life of Ann Margret and her career. She talks about the close bond she has with her family. She also talks about her longtime friendship/relationship with Elvis Presley. She is quite candid about her battle with alcoholism. It was refreshing to read about a Hollywood star who has maintained a long time, love affair with her husband.