My Secret Mother, Lorna Moon

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. [a beautiful copy, with no discernible wear to the book at all; the jacket is slightly wrinkled at the lower right corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) Fascinating memoir by the adopted son of famed movie producer/director Cecil B. DeMille, centered around his discovery -- many years after the fact -- that his birth mother was "an exotic figure of silent-film-era Hollywood," the novelist/screenwriter/newspaperwoman Lorna Moon, and that he was the illegitimate product of her liaison with Cecil's brother William de Mille. Oh, what a tangled web these silent movie people wove! .