Anthony Quinn SIGNED Autobio Brando Monroe Welles Rita Ingrid Zorba Photos HC/DJ

Description: One Man Tango by Anthony Quinn , copyright 1995 1st Edition This book with dustjacket is in very good condition - dustjacket is in very good condition with very minor wear - The book has no torn or missing pages nor any other writing - Wonderful Edition to add to your library!! Signed on 3rd page "To Gaetan and Barbara from Tony Quinn 10-13-95 Oscar winner Quinn is back with another exercise in self- revelation, covering some of the same ground as The Original Sin (1972) and bringing his story up to date. Quinn seems obsessed by the aging process, if this book is any indication (although that is not unusual for actors). The framing device for this more or less chronological narrative is his demanding daily bike ride through the hills and villages surrounding his Italian home. He uses the outing as an opportunity to ruminate on the painful reality that he is losing friends, roles, and abilities to the passage of time. It also gives him entirely too many opportunities to wax philosophical, spewing pseudo-profound observations (``To be loved is the triumph of living. . . . I have been loved a thousand times, and still I am wanting. Does this leave me a triumphant success or a colossal failure?'') But when Quinn embarks on telling the story of his past, the book has flashes of genuine insight. The actor grew up dirt-poor with his mother in El Paso, waiting for his father, who was fighting with Pancho Villa. On his return, Quinn's father went through a multitude of hard, low-paying jobs before drifting, almost inadvertently, into the film business. Quinn himself has held a fair number of unusual jobs, as well. He was a boxer and a preacher working for Aimee Semple McPherson. The range of his associations is broad enough to include John Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Feodor Chaliapin, and John Steinbeck; and there are several hilarious anecdotes. But too much of the book is taken up with self-flagellating retellings of Quinn's tempestuous love life, his roaring at the world, and his inner thoughts. Also listed Katharine Hepburn SIGNED, Carole Lombard, Hollywood Life, Gloria Grahame, Kim Novak SIGNED, Jayne Mansfield, Liberace SIGNED, Mary Pickford SIGNED, Rita Hayworth, Joan Crawford SIGNED & other Hollywood Items!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered on all items

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