Always Wear Joy - My Mother Bold and Beautiful

Informationen zum Autor Susan Fales-Hill is an award-winning television writer and producer. She has worked on shows ranging from The Cosby Show to A Different World, Linc's, and Suddenly Susan. Her writing has also appeared in Vogue, Town & Country, and Travel & Leisure. She lives in New York City. Zusammenfassung Growing up with a black, Auntie Mame -- like mother who performed with the likes of Lena Horne and Alvin Ailey, and a WASP seafaring father, Susan Fales-Hill thought nothing of watching her mother, Josephine Premice, perform in an acclaimed Broadway musical one moment and fleeing to Faleton, her grandparents' summer estate, the next. But it was from her mother -- a woman who was dressed by Givenchy and sculpted by Alexander Calder, yet rejected by many a casting agent for her "dark," unconventional looks -- that Susan drew inspiration, particularly when she faced challenges in her own career as a television writer in Hollywood, a town that wasn't always receptive to positive images of people of color. As a result, the two developed a bond that mothers and daughters everywhere will find inspiring. Dazzling in their public lives and emotionally vulnerable in their private lives, there is not a person in this touching and, at times, funny family memoir that the reader will soon forget.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Fales-Hill
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2003
• EAN: 9780060523565
• ISBN: 978-0-06-052356-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Music, ART: Individual Artists / General, ART: Women Artists, DESIGN: Fashion & Accessories, ART: History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART: Individual Artists / Essays, ART: Performance, PHOTOGRAPHY: Individual Photographers / General