Research Catalog

Title

Just outside the spotlight : growing up with Eileen Heckart / Luke Yankee ; foreword by Mary Tyler Moore.

Author

Yankee, Luke

Publication

New York : Back Stage Books, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Moore, Mary Tyler, 1936-2017

Description

320 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Renowned, award-winning actress Heckart knew everybody in Hollywood - and her son spills the stories she could never tell.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Mothers and sons > Biography
• Motion picture actors and actresses > Biography
• Heckart, Eileen, 1919-2001
• Yankee, Luke

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Curtain Up! 10 -- A Diva Begins 14 -- Learning the Ropes 23 -- Life's A "Picnic" 37 -- Nanny 44 -- Heckie Hits Hollywood 51 -- Smelling Marlene Dietrich 57 -- Drunken Diva 64 -- Elvis and a Six-Pack 69 -- Correcting Arthur Miller 73 -- Kazan, Inge, and "Old Archie" 75 -- Playing Catch with Marilyn Monroe 80 -- Birdcalls and Baby Brushes 86 -- Corsets, Caves and a Complicated Birth 92 -- Musical Moments 100 -- My Mother, the Star 106 -- Competitive Colleagues 115 -- Our Neighbor, Ethel Mertz 121 -- America's Not-So-Sweetheart 126 -- Barefoot in the Confessional 129 -- The Automat and Forest Lawn 134 -- The Christmas Party and Merman's Martini 139 -- Divas and Democrats 149 -- Balloons, "Butterflies," and Sneakers 157 -- My Moment Inside the Spotlight 171 -- Mama Wins an Oscar 181 -- Miss Le "G" 192 -- Necrophilia at the Public Library 200 -- Berlin, Brecht, and "Mother Courage" 205 -- Holland in the Holocaust 208 -- The Diva Critiques 212 -- Heckie Goes Solo 226 -- Mary's Aunt Flo 231 -- Ladies a la Mode 236 -- Daddy 253 -- Juilliard, Jackie, and Joanne 259 -- "Outing" Ellen and Stalled Sitcoms 265 -- Directing the Diva 269 -- The Leader of the Band 275 -- New Beginnings 283 -- Back in the Spotlight 289 -- A Diva Departs 295 -- The World Says Farewell 309.

ISBN

• 0823078884
• 9780823078882

LCCN

^^2006921113

OCLC

67615972

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library