Crowning Glory: Reflections of Hollywood's Favorite Confidant [*SIGNED*]

Los Angeles: General Publishing Group. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1996). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy (except for author's inscription) with no discernible wear, appears unread; the jacket has just a touch of wear along the bottom edge]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Well Don, I / haven't seen you for / qutie a while, and I / wish it were more / often. My very best to / you. Most sincerely / Sydney." (The inscribee was the noted costume designer Donfeld, aka Don Feld.) Memoir by MGM's head hair stylist. "Beginning in 1935, he was a close confidant to the greatest luminaries of an era he was instrumental in helping to create: the Golden Age of Hollywood. Though [he] is a modest man who preferred to live his personal and professional life behind the scenes, he has finally ended decades of self-imposed silence at the behest of friends like Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, who urged him to tell his story." Introduction by Angela Lansbury. Signed by Author .