Pieces of My Heart: A Life
by Robert J. Wagner, Scott Eyman
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Author: Robert J. Wagner, Scott EymanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-15
ISBN: 006137332X
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: It Books
Book Reviews of Pieces of My Heart: A Life
Book Review: What A Man!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this biography of Robert Wagner's life immensely & recommend it highly. He has led quite a life & known so very many famous people. There is quite abit about Natalie in here as well, which was another reason I wanted to read the book. I didn't realize that his first love was the late great Barbara Stanwyck. He writes from his heart & it's easily coherent to see that Natalie was the major love of his life. The book comes with alot of glorious photos from his early days through his recent ones. What a handsome man he was and is! He was already 41 by the time I knew him from "It Takes A Thief" (loved that show) & it was enthralling to see for the first time, pictures of him as a very young man. It's no wonder he made it into show business!
The book will show you that he has lived his life with dignity & grace, yet offers a couple things that will show his very human side as well. He has been a wonderful father to his own 2 daughters, and thinks of Natalie's daughter Natasha as his own. I don't know what those girls would have did without him after Natalie's tragic accidental drowning in 1981. He was a heartbroken man after that, but his strength & courage & with the help & love of his daughters & Jill St. John, he managed to rebuild his life & go on. He writes with passion and a great sense of humor as well. I was pleasantly surprised to find that he is a huge animal lover & I loved his passage about how his animals are not "put down" without him being there with them. Something I live by also.
I ended the book thinking what a classy, kind & wonderful man he is that has done so much with a life. I do think Natalie's name deserved to be in the dedication as she very much was "one of the women in his life".
Summary of Pieces of My Heart: A Life
Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible life.
When he was a young boy growing up in Bel Air next door to a golf course, Robert Wagner saw Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Randolph Scott, and Cary Grant playing golf together one morning?and it fueled his dream of becoming a movie star.
In Pieces of My Heart, Wagner offers a candid and deeply personal look at his life and career?his rise to stardom in the studiodominated Hollywood era of the 1950s; his relationship with mentors like Spencer Tracy and David Niven, and with friends like Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis; his decline and his resurrection. And he speaks from the heart of the women he loved: Barbara Stanwyck, a glamorous star twice his age; Marion Marshall, Jill St. John . . . and Natalie Wood. For the very first time he chronicles in great depth their extraordinary romance and bares his pain as he openly recounts its tragic end.
With color photographs and fascinating never-before-told tales and anecdotes, Pieces of My Heart is the heartfelt, remarkably revealing, and quintessentially American story of one of the great sons of Hollywood.
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