Contents


Part One

Prologue: 

“He was Fred Astaire!”

One: 

“In a sense, I was a teenage rebel.”

Two: 

“I was the focus of a circle of light.”

Three: 

“Baby, I was in the movies!”

Four: 

“Barbara was the first woman I ever loved.”

Five: 

“Mainly, it was the wig.”

Six: 

“The scene, that one moment, and nothing else.”

 

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Seven: 

“Sweet Jesus! It was Howard Hughes.”

Eight: 

“And then I met Natalie.”

Nine: 

“He never spoke about Ava, not ever.”

Ten: 

“That fucking cunt will never work in my studio again!”

Part Two

Eleven: 

“I missed her loving me.”

Twelve: 

“I have a frozen cock.”

Thirteen: 

“My heart stopped when I saw her.”

Fourteen: 

“Fred!…Fred!…Fred!”

Fifteen: 

“She was with me for the rest of her life.”

Sixteen: 

“Why did she love me? I think it was because I made her laugh.”

 

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Seventeen: 

“I’ve always had affection for a theatrical rogue.”

Eighteen: 

“Natalie hid nothing.”

Nineteen: 

“Everything went away from me.”

Twenty: 

“What happened to us, baby?”

Twenty-One: 

“A gift for life.”

Twenty-Two: 

“You have to have it.”

Twenty-Three: 

“The world moves on.”


Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher