More fun even than most celebrity biographies. Debbie was in her 80's when she wrote this one and is as characteristically honest as we elders are known to be. The first part catches us up on the rest of her life after her first book, Debbie: My Life. At that point she was newly married to the man she thought would be the love of her life. It turns out, NOT. This book is well titled because life does keep knocking her down mountains and up she climbs again--slowly with a huge amount of work--just to be knocked down again. But there is no giving up for this lady. The second half of the book is a retrospective of all of her movies and some of her other work. She talks about her and Harve Presnell's stage tour of The Unsinkable Molly Brown that Caryl (Gamin Coss) and I attended in Dallas and where I took Caryl's picture with each of the stars. Caryl will be happy to know that she was good to Harve in this book--she very much enjoyed working with this kind and professional star. Loved this book and LOVED Debbie...RIP, girl. Your movies made our lives happier.
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