Ein vielgeliebter Star aus den Glanztagen von Hollywood plaudert charmant, witzig und oft enthüllend von Höhen und Tiefen der legendären Traumfabrik. Er erzählt überraschende Details von sich und seinen berühmten Kollegen: von Chaplin, der Garbo, dem unvergessenen Clark Gable, von Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant und vielen anderen umjubelten Heroen aus vergangenen Tagen. Eine autobiographische Kostbarkeit für alle Kinofreunde.
Nutzen Sie die Wissenschaft des Glücks! Experten, Forscher, Wissenschaftler in aller Welt haben ihren ganzen Fleiß, ihr Talent und eine Menge Geld in zahlreiche Studien gesteckt, um eine Frage zu beantworten: „Was macht den Menschen glücklich?“ Ihre Erkenntnisse bescheren manches Aha-Erlebnis und sind praktisch verwertbar. Dieses Buch enthält 100 inspirierende Ratschläge für jede Lebenslage, gewürzt mit Humor und Weisheit, dazu Anwendungsbeispiele für alle - ob alt oder jung, arm oder reich.
Der Bestsellerautor räumt mit einer Vielzahl verbreiteter Mythen und Irrtümer über die Ursachen von Gesundheit, Fitness und langem Leben auf. Bewusster Leben „Ganz handfeste, mitunter etwas ausgefallene Hinweise, in einer verständlichen Sprache dargelegt, nie spektakulär aufgebauscht. Das kleine Buch im Hardcover ist zum Nachschlagen da. David Niven hat eine Lücke gefüllt, indem er der natürlichen Heilkunst zu ihrem Recht verhilft und seine Leser mit dem neuesten Forschungsstand bekannt macht.“ Mannheimer Morgen
Color Niven photo front and back First Complete Unabridged hardcover Octopus Limited ed both books 1985 Dark Green Cloth binding
David Niven recalls his time in Hollywood during its heyday. He recounts stories and anecdotes of the stars, producers, directors, tycoons and oddballs, many of whom were his friends.
One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen.Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows how, even as an unknown young man, he knew how to live the good life.But it is his astonishing stories of life in Hollywood and his accounts of working and partying with the legends of the silver screen - Lawrence Oliver, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward and dozens of others, while making some of the most acclaimed films of the last century - which turn David Niven's memoir into an outright masterpiece.An intimate, gossipy, heartfelt and above all charming account of life inside Hollywood's dream factory, The Moon is a Balloon is a classic to be read and enjoyed time and again..
The Amorous, Glamorous And Delightfully Wicked Novel From The Bestselling Author Of The Moon's A Balloon
They met during the London blitz. Pandora was a small-part actress in a hit musical; Stani, half Polish and half American, found himself alone in England - his father back with his troops in Poland, his mother trapped in France by Hitler's advance.Love affairs in those days were feverish. Pandora said war is an aphrodisiac and certainly they did not allow bombs to distract them nor even such major complications as Stani - now in the RAF - being seriously wounded while on Catafighter service, or Pandora (who proves to be an Earl's daughter) having to go on an ENSA tour to Burma.By the time the war is over, Pandora, always professionally ambitious, has got herself a Hollywood film contract, to learn that a theatre of war is not the only place where in-fighting can be tough.After the huge success of his autobiographical The Moon's a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses, David Niven now turns to fiction. In Pandora and Stani he has created a wonderfully attractive, totally credible pair of young lovers. Their story moves to many parts of the world - Germany, Poland, Mexico, Greece and the Spice Islands besides England and the United States and David Niven views their startling adventures with the same infectious charm and effortless light touch which made his two previous books immediate and lasting international best-sellers.
