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Product Description
This is the deliciously entertaining memoir by the coal miner's son who became an international star of stage, screen, and television. Keel speaks his mind about his many co-stars, including Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Tammy Grimes and Katherine Greyson, to name a few.
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• Only Make Believe: My Life In Show Business
01 September, 2009
This book is poorly written. Obviiously ghost written, and not done well at all. Still, as a life-long fan, I liked learning a little bit more about Mr. Keel.
Service from shipper was excellent. Book in good condition and came very fast.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Thanks To All The Reviewers
27 February, 2008
As the co-author of Howard's book, Judy Keel and I want to thank all the reviewers--those who loved the book (we went into 3rd printing) and those who didn't. That's what tastes are all about. 1. We'd like to address the issues of correctness. When we received the galleys from the publisher, they had infused major errors on 85 pages. We corrected those and returned them to the publisher. We never saw the book again until it was in print. Don't shoot the authors! 2. If you don't believe we gave you enough information on certain topics, it's simply because Mr. Keel had the last right of refusal on every word written--and I honored that contract with him, even in death. 3. If you feel the book was not totally literary, please remember he had a high school degree, and I tried to write in his voice as he would speak without adding my PhD to it. I'm grateful to those who knew him to say they could hear his voice when reading the book. For me, that's high praise. 4. If he didn't address the topics you wanted to know more about, please remember it was his story. He had the right to share whatever he wanted with his fans. His great respect for many people in the book remained in his heart--not open to tabloid gush. He was a fine man, a wonderful friend, and I'm honored to have been chosen to write his story. Thank you. Joyce Spizer Foy
- Amazon Customer Review
• How Wonderful To Be Howard Keel!
24 June, 2009
Yes, it was all only make believe--that is, Howard Keel's recall of his wondrous days as a l00 per cent lady killer.
Howard Keel has always been one of my all-time faves in movies. HIs musicals will live on forever. He had a wonderfully clean-cut sex appeal that never bored or was offensive. I picked up this book, hoping to read and discover true nuggets of movie lore that only one of our musical legends could bring us.
Alas, all of this memoir is mostly about how wonderful Keel found his movie friends. There's not a woman he meets who wasn't "wonderful! What a woman!" He tells us in turgid detail about his brief fling with co-star Katherine Grayson, another brilliant singer. But most of his memoirs is like reading someone whose just drifting along, from bar to bedroom, where all his female conquests were "what a woman!...wonderful!..what a beautiful woman!"
Unlike his musical co-hort Esther Williams, Keel didn't use a ghostwriter and this is what makes this book so tedious to read. It's very much in the Tony Curtis memoir, "American Prince", where Curtis also spends most of his time patting his own back and boring everyone with his memoirs of bedroom hijenks.
Keel deserves a really good biography. His unforgettable performances in "Annie Get Your Gun," "Seven Brides," "Showboat" are movies that we'll be watching one hundred years from now. This memoir is an embarassment to all of his fans.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Howard Keel's Own Story
14 December, 2008
Howard Keel was one of the great musical stars of Hollyood's Golden Era.
He was also my friend and, for many years, my publicity client.
In ONLY MAKE BELIEVE, Howard presents an honest account of his life, revealing many things that I knew and some that I did not know about him. Here you will find inside stories about Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Esther Williams, Jane Powell, Doris Day and many other stars with whom Keel worked.
This is also a story of one of the biggest comebacks in show business history.
It's no secret that Keel's career floundered after the decline of the movie musical at the end of the 1950s. With the exception of a few unimportant films, he made his living working in nightclubs and regional theaters. Indeed, he was about to quit show business when he was offered the role of "Clayton Farlow" on DALLAS, a 10-year assignment that would totally revitalize his career.
ONLY MAKE BELIEVE is an entertaining, candid autobiography by a man whose great loves were his wife (Judy), his kids, golf and singing. It's a very entertaining read.
© Michael B. Druxman
- Amazon Customer Review
• What A Rascle!
20 April, 2009
I always loved Howard Keel on film, but as he writes his story, he was a man who got caught up in the world of celebrity and not always living his life out as you would have hoped for him and the people in it.
- Amazon Customer Review
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