Bring on the Empty Horses
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- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2006
Summary
Bring on the Empty Horses: A Hollywood Memoir
Here is Niven at his best. He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, ‘whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all’. High on the rostrum he decided the moment had come to order the arrival on the scene of a hundred riderless chargers. “Okay,” he yelled into a megaphone, “Bring on the empty horses!”
BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the second part of David Niven’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340839959 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340839953 |
| Series: | Hodder Great Reads |
| Author: | David Niven |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
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Were David Niven not a famous actor, he would be thought a brilliant writer. And after this book he will surely be thought a brilliant writer - J.K. Galbraith
Hilariously readable - Sunday TelegraphSo bring on the empty horses and fill their saddles with shades of Cooper, Gable, Fairbanks and Flynn. This time David Niven is riding a winner - Irish TimesThe best book buy available at the moment - West Lancashire Evening GazetteSome very funny stories indeed, well told - The ScotsmanHe is nothing if not an individualist: a raconteur of style and sophistication and a writer with imagination and a sense of pace … It adds to his stature - Coventry Evening TelegraphDavid Niven has done it again! - Boston GlobeBRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is a delight from start to finish. With shrewdness and warmth … Niven brings us to Hollywood in its golden prime, from the early ‘30s to the age of TV. Above all, he brings us them - the outstanding stars, producers, directors, writers, tycoons and oddballs, many of whom were his friends … An inspired mix of descriptions, impressions, and anecdotes. - Publishers WeeklyAbout The Author
David Niven
Born in Scotland in 1910, David Niven followed in his father’s footsteps by serving in the British Army until 1932. He arrived in Hollywood in 1935 and after a chance meeting became a ‘film extra’. Six years later he accepted his first starring role. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was the first British actor to volunteer to go back to England and was commissioned in the Rifle Brigade, serving with distinction throughout the conflict. After returning to America, he continued his distinguished film career, both as actor and producer. David Niven died tragically in 1983 of Motor Neurone Disease in Château-d’Œx, France.
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