On reflection : an autobiography
Helen Hayes, Sandford Dody (Contributor)
In setting down all the family stories, the backstage anecdotes and her recollections of spiritual struggle, Miss Helen Hayes--that marvelous moxie-mix of bubbling Babs and Queen Victoria--has produced a legacy for us all. After years of unwillingness to discuss her private world, she has looked beyond her legend and directly at life's lessons as she was forced to learn them. Deeply moving and affectionately witty, her autobiography is an affirmation of the faith that first gave it impetus. All the Helens are here: the 'unrehearsed' child and her shy but ambitious mother; the young actress who so appealed to such luminaries as John Drew and William Gillette; the young woman who forged a marriage with a brilliant renegade named Charles MacArthur; the mother of Mary and Jim; the keeper of an endless procession of hilariously tyrannical poodles; the friend of Fitzgerald, Harpo Marx and Dietrich; the lady who became our 'First Lady of the American Theater'; the mature woman, looking forward; and first, last, and always, the actress
Print Book, English, 1969, ©1968
1st British ed
W.H. Allen, London, 1969, ©1968