Taking its inspiration from Sanders's own autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad (1960), this book is part witty, bawdy, and irreverent memoir, part moving meditation on the price of fame; like most of David Slavitt's work, it defies easy categorization. In George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me , Slavitt looks back to his career as a film critic in the glamorous--at least superficially--world of 1950s Hollywood, when he traveled in circles that included the talented British actor George Sanders (1906-1972) and his then ...
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Taking its inspiration from Sanders's own autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad (1960), this book is part witty, bawdy, and irreverent memoir, part moving meditation on the price of fame; like most of David Slavitt's work, it defies easy categorization. In George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me , Slavitt looks back to his career as a film critic in the glamorous--at least superficially--world of 1950s Hollywood, when he traveled in circles that included the talented British actor George Sanders (1906-1972) and his then-wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was talented at, well, being famous.
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