My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir, by Mary Louise Wilson
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My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir, by Mary Louise Wilson
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The unabashedly funny and forthright memoir by the Tony Award winner for Grey Gardens, detailing the singular life and career of one of our most admired and acclaimed stage actors
Mary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop portraying legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her life and her career―including the Tony Award for her portrayal of Big Edie in Grey Gardens―have been enviably celebrated and varied. Raised in New Orleans with a social climbing, alcoholic mother, Mary Louise moved to New York City in the late 1950s; lived with her gay brother in the Village; entered the nightclub scene in a legendary review; and rubbed shoulders with every famous person of that era and since. My First Hundred Years in Show Business gets it all down. Yet as delicious as the anecdotes are, the heart of this book is in its unblinkingly honest depiction of the life of a working actor. In her inimitable voice―wry, admirably unsentimental, mordantly funny―Mary Louise Wilson has crafted a work that is at once a teeming social history of the New York theatre scene and a thoroughly revealing, superbly entertaining memoir of the life of an extraordinary woman and actor. 24 b&w photographs My First Hundred Years in Show Business: A Memoir, by Mary Louise Wilson- Amazon Sales Rank: #644731 in Books
- Brand: The Overlook Press
- Published on: 2015-07-13
- Released on: 2015-07-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x .90" w x 6.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
Review “Thank you MLW for writing this book, if only to confirm for me hi diddly de de the actor’s life for me―a life as full of heartache, waiting, and disappointment as it is, for us all, an absolute delight. Learning that it would be the same for the great Mary Louise Wilson is a relief. And for those not in show biz...get ready to read some truth!” (Melissa Leo, Academy Award-winning actor)“Mary Louise Wilson’s writing is like her acting―deft, droll, and full of surprises. Her book is a riot of characters met and characters played, of dreams dashed and dreams fulfilled―a funny, frank, and savvy chronicle of a wonderful life, in the theatre and beyond.” (David Hyde Pierce, Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor)“A fascinating read from one of our greatest comic actresses.” (Bernadette Peters, Tony Award-winning actor)“MY FIRST HUNDRED YEARS IN SHOW BUSINESS is a sharp and brazenly authentic meditation on the elusiveness of fame and the determination one needs to "just charge ahead" amidst the uncertainty of making it in show business.” (Broadwayworld.com)“Here it is, the dishiest, funniest, chattiest, and most soul-baring theater book of the year. Tony winner Mary Louise Wilson -- forever dubbed "the best thing in it" in review after review -- captures her life and career in this delightful memoir. Pick it up and its slim nature (less than 200 pages) might disappoint. But then you start to read it and realize, "Oh, she only put in the good stuff!"” (The Huffington Post)“The book brims with anecdotes about working with such legendary figures as Bert Lahr, Judy Holliday, Eva LeGallienne and Lotte Lenya, as well as backstage types including, most memorably, an enormous wardrobe mistress...There are plenty of laughs –- after all, her first theater job was to play the Second Dead Lady in a revival of "Our Town" –- but there is plenty of candor, too.” (Nola.com)
About the Author Mary Louise Wilson has acted on and off Broadway and in films and TV for nearly fifty years. Roles include Vera Joseph in 4000 Miles at Lincoln Center (Obie Award), Big Edie in Grey Gardens (Tony Award), Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret (Tony nomination), and Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop (Drama Desk Award). Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker and The New York Times and she teaches acting at Tulane. She lives in upstate New York.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Decades of Great Tales from Tony Award Winning Accress By Librarian's Pal Octogenarian character actress Mary Louise Wilson has a face that's more familiar than her name. "I'm not well known, I didn't have a glittering career studded with affairs and celebrities," she writes. What she is, however, is a survivor in a very tough profession, and a born storyteller with a deliciously acerbic sense of humor about everything, especially herself.In her mid-50s, Wilson realized that she had to take control of her flagging career by writing (with Mark Hampton) and starring in Full Gallop, a one-woman show based on the life of Vogue magazine editor Diana Vreeland. The focus of My First Hundred Years in Show Business is Wilson's eight-year journey to bring Full Gallop to the stage. "If you never want to hear from somebody again, send them your play," Wilson writes.Alternating with this long-gestating project are short, juicy chapters covering her film, TV and theater roles and her private life. Wilson has decades of great backstage anecdotes, starting with her Broadway debut in the 1963 flop Hot Spot starring Judy Holliday--who fired several directors and refused to speak to Wilson offstage. Wilson's behind-the-scenes stories are equally compelling: an accidental overdose, an African American cross-dressing boyfriend, a pre-legal abortion and a cocaine-addicted dentist who used Crazy Glue to fix her teeth.Wilson won major theater awards in her sixth and seventh decade and has no interest in retiring. At age 82, she writes, "The need to perform doesn't die. It's like lust; it's like throwing a lit match on a pile of dry hay."Wilson's frank and fascinating story of perseverance will encourage aspiring actors and entertain theater buffs.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I Bought It In An Egg! I'll Have To Bury It In A Walnut! By Sylviastel If you wanted to know why Mary Louise Wilson walked away from a contract role on Norman Lear's "One Day at a Time," as the unforgettable Ginny Wroblicky, please read this book. Mary Louise Wilson has truly led an actor's life on stage, film and television. On stage, she played Big Edie Beale in "Grey Gardens" and fashion mogul journalist, Diana Vreeland in "Full Gallop." She would win a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Big Edie.On television, she left a lasting impression as Ginny, the cocktail waitress. Mary Louise was truly unhappy in Los Angeles, California personally. She preferred life in New York City with her friends. Lear released her from her contract after a season by her choice. There were no hard feelings. For decades, there were rumors about a rivalry between her and Bonnie Franklin that led to her character's departure.She left the series because she was unhappy in Los Angeles, California not because of Bonnie Franklin. In fact, I'm surprised that she and Bonnie weren't close friends. They had more in common personally and professionally. Both women had apartments in New York City and a failed marriage behind each of them by this time. Again, Mary Louise left the series on her accord and with Norman Lear's blessing to release her from the contract after one season.Mary Louise had spent most of her acting career onstage in New York City; Hampstead, London; San Diego; Cincinatti; Rochester; among other places. She writes honestly about her experiences without trying to trash anybody's reputation. Unfortunately, Hollywood didn't pan out for her in the series. She would play a French maid, Toinette, in a long forgotten ABC television series, "The Thorns," filmed in New York City.Mary Louise writes about her abortion, marriage, love life, and relationships as well with candor and truthfulness. She had a three year marriage to an actor that ended in a divorce. Still Mary Louise is a beloved actress in theatrical circles especially in New York City and the East Coast.This autobiography is about the life of an American actress through the good times and bad times in one of the toughest industries. She had just finished a run in the Broadway revival, "On The Twentieth Century." She lives between New York City and a home in upstate New York. Mary Louise Wilson still acts on stage, television, and film if they don't edit her out.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. As Funny on the Page As She Is On-Screen By KaseyG I fell in love with Mary Louise Wilson back in 1976 at the tender age of eight, when I saw her scene-stealing debut as sassy, acid-tongued cocktail waitress Ginny Wrobliki on the hit CBS sitcom “One Day at a Time”. To me, Ms. Wilson was the best thing about the show and I remember being bitterly disappointed when she vanished the following season. Though I never sought out her performances after that, whenever she did pop up on everything from the Roseanne Barr/Meryl Streep “She-Devil” (stealing the movie with one line reading: “INCONTINENCE!”) to a “Nurse Jackie” episode playing a cussing octogenarian in rehab, it was a delight. So of course I was thrilled to hear the news that Mary Louise was publishing her memoirs.Written in a casual, breezy style, page after page is like having Mary-Louise sitting in your kitchen or living room regaling you and a few friends with dozens and dozens of stories about her checkered past in an amusingly animated way. The book sways back and forth between eras with the crux of it being the early-to-mid 1990s when Wilson was hell-bent on getting her play “Full Gallop” based on the life of fashion icon/socialite Diana Vreeland, produced. I kind of wish she had ditched the Vreeland angle and told more of her own personal stories. In fact, I think she could follow Bea Arthur’s lead and do a one-woman show talking about her own experiences in show biz. Her dry sense of humor amazingly translates well to the page and nothing is sacred, from hemorrhoids to abortion, and a cross-dressing boy-toy of color. Ms. Wilson lets it all hang out in a hilarious way.FOUR STARS. I enjoyed this and here’s to your SECOND hundred years—you’re a gem Mary-Louise!
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