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Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF.Otherwise you miss out on a great and funny book that has been written by one of the humble and funniest men in cinema ever.

You spend an entire evening and talk into the night recounting their mis-adventures, hilarious scrapes and some deliciously engaging anecdotes whose veracity you can never be 100% certain about. His writing is so personable, skillful, and engaging, it's hard to believe he was primarily an actor.In fact, Niven set the benchmark for the Hollywood expose, after all he was there at the parties and in the beds of the glamorous stars and also in a lot of very unmemorable films.

Here we learn that the "Goldwynisms" that Samuel Goldwyn is so famous for might have all been made-up. He depicts the heartbreaks, the dreams and eccentricities of various characters and manages to cast a very human eye on their stories. There's a discipline missing in the first book, although the familiar, more casual voice of the first book does reappear as the book progresses, so I don't know how much is Niven? Some of the impact/charm of the writing is lost by the fact that these stories don't actually all belong to Niven, despite his use of the first-person throughout. He subsequently appeared in another 30 films, including The Guns of Navarone (1961) The Pink Panther (1963), Murder by Death (1976), Death on the Nile (1978), and The Sea Wolves (1980).David Niven was in Hollywood from the 30's, mixing with the stars in heyday, lived and shared a home with Errol Flynn, parties all the time, playing tennis, go fishing with Clark Gable. But they did feel rather disconnected, especially the segments at the end that went for just a few pages each, again and again. So bring on the empty horses and fill their saddles with shades of Cooper, Gable, Fairbanks and Flynn.