Shelley II: The Middle Of My Century

Description for SHELLEY II: THE MIDDLE OF MY CENTURY by Shelley Winters: SHELLEY II is the most uproariously entertaining show business autobiography since Shelley Winters' first book, SHELLEY: ALSO KNOWN AS SHIRLEY. Picking up where she left off, America's most irrepressible star takes us on a wild ride through the Hollywood of the 1950s and early 1960s, with side trips to Broadway, the Actors Studio, and around the world. Returning to America from Italy in 1954, Shelley is devastated by the scandalous breakup of her marriage to Vittorio Gassman---but not for long. In the years that follow, we see Shelley triumph as an actress---and follow her through passionate love affairs, a tempestuous marriage, and her growing commitment to the civil rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the political careers of Adlai Stevenson and John Kennedy. Here is Shelley struggling to shed the blonde bombshell image that Universal studios had created for her. She studies the Me