How I Lost 10 Pounds In 53 Years

Download or read book How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Years written by Kaye Ballard and published by Backstage Books. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable memoir from a legendary trouper From burlesque to vaudeville to big bands and nightclubs, from movies to television to Broadway, Kaye Ballard has seen it all and done it all. Now she tells it all, in a gossipy, upbeat memoir filled with great anecdotes about hanging out at the Actor’s Studio with Marlon Brando...playing Greenwich Village cabarets in the 1950s...performing with Lenny Bruce at the Hungry I...doing live television in the 1950s andThe Mothers-in-Lawin the 1960s. Meet Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, Doris Day, Judy Garland, Rogers and Hammerstein, Paul Lynde, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr, and practically everyone else in showbiz in the last sixty years, through the eyes and distinctive voice of the inimitable Kaye Ballard. Affectionate, amazing, and impossible to put down,How I Lost 10 Pounds in 53 Yearsis a wonderful tribute to a legendary trouper and her times. • More than 100 never-before-seen photos • Kaye Ballard, a showbiz legend, shares her amazing stories for the first time • Blurbs from Phyllis Diller, Walter Cronkite, Rex Reed, many more!