Bring On The Empty Horses

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These are very much a series of anecdotes, frequently involving pranks and the foibles of the great stars of the past.

Rich in anecdote, and written in his inimitable humorous style, BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is perhaps the most acclaimed sequel to an autobiography ever written. Though certain stories are doubtless exaggerated, Niven manages to convey the essence of what it meant to be a player in the Hollywood of the 30's. There's a discipline missing in the first book, although the familiar, more casual voice of the first book does reappear as the book progresses, so I don't know how much is Niven? This book is just a literary form of an evening spent over drinks with your larger-than-life uncle or your slightly conman type friend/friendly neighbourhood raconteur/story-teller.Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in a reasonable condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition. I think he is more honest and forthcoming about the people who had already passed and is less truthful about anyone who was still living or who had widows still living in 1975. Actor David Niven's volume of autobiography (after "The Moon's A Balloon"), well-written and entertaining. A lot of the names in this book are mostly forgotten, unless you are a classic movie fan of the 30's and 40's like myself.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Mike Curtiz was the director of The Charge of the Light Brigade and his Hungarian-oriented English was a source of joy to us all. But this isn't really a memoir, anyway, it's more of a bunch of fairly disconnected Hollywood anecdotes, some quite compelling. We hear an amusing story about Edward Goulding's funeral complete with the worst pallbearer casting in history. He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, ‘whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all’.Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. All of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you! Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This is the follow-up to David Niven's first memoir ( The Moon's a Balloon), but this book is centered on the stories of Niven's friends and co-stars and directors.

All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. He subsequently appeared in another 30 films, including The Guns of Navarone (1961) The Pink Panther (1963), Murder by Death (1976), Death on the Nile (1978), and The Sea Wolves (1980). BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the second part of David Niven's internationally bestselling autobiography, following the superbly entertaining THE MOON'S A BALLOON.Personally, I wish there had been more about the filming of THE MOON IS BLUE (1953) and PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES (1960, of which not a word is said). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The first part of his biography, The Moon in a Balloon, was a best seller as was the second part - Bring On The Empty Horses. In 1971, he published his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, which was well-received, selling over five million copies. i definitely have the feeling of being let in on the secrets of old hollywood whenever i read it, though i do tend to skip past the sections about "missy" a pseudonymous starlet that niven uses to highlight the frailty of a star like marilyn monroe, or judy garland because i'm very familiar with it now, and it's a strange little narrative in the midst of a most fascinating memoir of the golden age.