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I Remember it Well
Author: Vincente Minnelli

As husband to the superstar of one generation and father to the superstar of another, few motion picture directors' personal lives have been as extravagantly splashed in newspaper headlines and gossip columns as Vincente Minnelli's. — In this profusely illustrated autobiography, the Academy Award-winning director shares the triumphs of on... more »e of Hollywood's most distinguished careers. Through words, as well as photographs from his family album, Minnelli also tells for the first time of his bitter-sweet marriage to Judy Garland, and shares the excitement of preparing a new film with his most treasured "production"--daughter, Liza Minnelli.

Tracing his life from his childhood days barnstorming with the Minnelli Brothers Tent Theater, he takes us to New York where, in the thirties, he quickly rose from being art director at the Radio City Music Hall to director of all Shubert musicals.

We follow him to Hollywodd where in 1940 he started a twenty-six-year association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the longest contract with a director in that studio's history. During that period, Minnelli is almost singlehandedly credited for bringing sophistication to the film musical through his introduction of the story ballet within the film as well as the first American use of surrealistic influence. The results of these efforts are such cinema classics as Meet Me in St. Louis, The Pirate, An American in Paris, The Band Wagon and Gigi.

We move on with him to his work on such comedy classics as Father of the Bride, The Long, Long Trailer, The Reluctant Debutante, and The Courtship of Eddi's Father, all of them supplying the gentle humor of recognition at the everyman reality of their situations.

His work in melodrama has earned him the description among the European film cultists as the most operatic of American film directors, his mastery of atmosphere influencing such talents as Bernardo Bertolucci and Luchino Visconti, and Minnelli describes his vision in the making of The Bad and the Beautiful, Lust for Life, and Home from the Hill.

The Minnelli autobiography, along with way, gives glimpses of some of the most exciting people in show business as he reminisces about Fanny Brice, Bea Lillie, the Gershwins, Fred Astaire, Katharine Hepburn, Gene Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Barbra Streisand.

In the rare and personal book, a consummate craftsman stresses that "in the final analysis, my work is the story of my life." And he proceeds to pay his own tribute to the special world of the movies.

ISBN-13: 9780385095228
ISBN-10: 0385095228
Publication Date: 1974
Pages: 391
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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