Alan Burgess

INGRID BERGMAN: MY STORY Ingrid Bergman, one of the world's finest actresses - winner of three Academy Awards and three New York Film Critics Circle Awards - telis her own story both onstage and off. She describes her reactions to the legendary characters she has known and worked with including...

Prologue She came out into the cool air of Hollywood's La Cienega Boulevard, and she felt dazed. She looked at the glowing neon, the headlights of the passing traffic, and taking Petter's arm she urged him toward the playbill outside the movie theatre, saying, 'Petter, we must get this...

Seven years ago Nancy Eldredge had changed her name, dyed her hair and fled across the continent to Cape Cod, determined to forget the horror she'd left behind. Now she has a home, a husband and two beautiful children. The past seems safely buried. But one morning, in a nightmarish repetition of...

AUTHOR'S NOTE I remember vividly how he opened the large hide-bound volume and flipped open its pages until he came to the section full of names which had been carefully ruled through with a line of red ink. "A story here," said Mr. Wittmer, "to make your hair stand on end!" The volume, it...

Jag lade pa luren efter att ha sagt nej tili att skriva mina memoarer, nágot som jag vägrat att göra de sista tjugo ären. Min son Roberto gav mig en begrundande blick. — Mamma, sa han, har du tänkt pá att när du dör kommer manga människor att kasta sig över ditt livs historia och...

1. KAPITEL Die Sache mit der kleinen Frau interessierte den Oberarzt und bekümmerte ihn zugleich. Ihre Todesnähe rührte ihn. Konnte er diesem ausgemergelten Körper, diesem flatternden Herzen gar nicht mehr helfen, dieser hinfälligen menschlichen Hülse, die der ungeheure chinesische...