I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir
Lee Grant
Blue Rider Press
Hardcover
From the publisher's website:
Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent
her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a
lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of
the legendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue “It Girl.” At age twenty-four, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Detective Story, and a year later found herself married and a mother for the first time, her career on the rise.
And then she lost it all.
Her name landed on the Hollywood blacklist, her offers for film and
television roles ground to a halt, and her marriage fell apart.
Finding reserves of strength she didn’t know she had, Grant took action
against anti-Communist witch hunts in the arts. She threw herself into
work, accepting every theater or teaching job that came her way. She met
a man ten years her junior and began a wild, liberating fling that she
never expected would last a lifetime. And after twelve years of
fighting the blacklist, she was finally exonerated. With courage and
style, Grant rebuilt her life on her own terms: first stop, a starring
role on Peyton Place, and then leads in Valley of the Dolls, In the Heat of the Night, and Shampoo, for which she won her first Oscar.
Set amid the New York theater scene of the fifties and the star-studded parties of Malibu in the seventies, I Said Yes to Everything evokes
a world of political passion and movie-star glamour. Grant tells
endlessly delightful tales of costars and friends such as Warren Beatty,
Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, and Sidney Poitier, and writes with the
verve and candor befitting such a seductive and beloved star.
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