Please Don't Shoot My Dog: The Autobiography of Jackie Cooper.
Cooper, Jackie; Kleiner, Richard.
Publisher: Morrow/Avon,
Date Published: 1981.
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 351 pages. The book is VERY GOOD. Slightly cocked spine and wear to board edges. The dust jacket is VERY GOOD with wear to jacket edges; closed tearing on bottom jacket near spine; inside front flap dog-eared. NOT Price-clipped. Comes with BRODART archival jacket cover. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Dust jacket notes read: "Jackie Cooper spares no one, not even himself, in this astonishingly outspoken, account of his multifaceted career. As a child actor and later as a teenager he was exploited and manipulated by every- one he knew. By the age of twenty he had survived Hollywood's most demanding pressures. He had known Hollywood's worst deceits and experienced its greatest temptations without ever having been allowed to make a decision concerning his own life. His eventual successes as an entertainer during World War II, as an actor on Broadway, and later as a TV director producer and studio executive are evidence of his extraordinary resiliency-a quality not shared by many of Hollywood's child stars. As active now as he was fifty years ago, he has had major roles in dozens of TV films. He was the director of fifteen of the first thirty M.A.S.H episodes and he has since specialized in directing movies for television. More than many celebrity autobiographies this is the story of an education, of a continuing process of maturing. Perhaps uniquely. the book itself is a step in that process. It is a sometimes ferocious self-evaluation, a painful coming to terms with a life rich in experience and filled with conflict and contradiction. From Cooper's early doomed search for his real father, and then for an adult mentor he could trust, to his nearly tragic extramarital adventure at the age of fifty-seven, the book documents a relentless self-examination. But there is high comedy here as well: and a wealth of inside information on Hollywood in its heyday. There are candid sketches of many of the most beloved figures in American entertainment history-Bing Crosby, Wallace Beery, Judy Garland, Harpo Marx, and Alan Alda among many others. Some of the revelations are disturbing; together they compose an eye-opening and richly detailed portrait of the entertainment industry in almost all its aspects. Funny, angry, inspiring, and appalling by turns, Please Don't Shoot My Dog is as varied as the life of the man who is its subject. Though he has made many enemies in his long and stormy career, what sets these memoirs apart is his recognition that there is truly one man to blame for most of his troubles-Jackie Cooper."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Back
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
ISBN: 0688036597
Book Id: 5951
Price: $14.25
