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David Niven : 2 Volumes of Autobiography

David Niven : 2 Volumes of Autobiography Hollywood movie star David Niven published two volumes of autobiography, recording the highlights of a long and eventful showbusiness career stretching from the 1930s to the 1970s. 1972 : The Moon's a Balloon 1975 : Bring on the Empty Horses The Moon's A Balloon is a best-selling memoir by British actor David Niven (1910-1983). Published in 1971, it details his early life. He followed it with a sequel, Bring on the Empty Horses , in 1975. One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen. Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows how, even as an unknown young man, he knew how to live the good life. But it's his astonishing stories of life in Hollywood, and his accounts of working and partying with the legends of the silver screen -- Lawrence Oliver, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward and dozens of others, while making some of the most acclaimed films of the 20th Century -- which turn Nive

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