Here, told with remarkable candor, are the private moments in a lifetime: Ruth Gordon's marriage to a rising young actor who died on the brink of great success, her affairs with two of the theater's legendary producers, her long and happ marriage to Garson Kanin, with whom she collaborated on a series of popular films, including Adam's Rib, A Double Life, Pat and Mike and The Marrying Kind. Miss Gordon's cast of characters reads like a Who's Who of theater and film in the twentieth century. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Ruth Gordon, Memoirs, Andree Valentin, Autobiography, Actresses, Herbert and Pearl Swope, Celebrities, Alexander Woollcott, Billie Burke, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Bernard Baruch, Helen Hayes, Don Rickles, Thornton Wilder, Peter Pan, Robert E. Sherwood, Edward Sheldon, Greta Garbo, Somerset Maughm, Katherine Cornell, David Selznick, George S. Kaufman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mia Farrow, Helen Keller, Henry Fonda, Fiorello La Guardia, Andre Previn, Cole Porter, Vivien Leigh, Theda Bara).