Ziegfeld, Patricia
The Ziegfelds' girl: Confessions of an Abnormally Happy Childhood / Patricia Ziegfeld - Boston Little, Brown & Company 1964 - 210 p.
The author of this sparkling book led a childhood which - by all that's Puritan - should have left her a trauma tized and spoiled wreck. The author of this sparkling book led a childhood which - by all that's Puritan - should have left her a traumatized and spoiled wreck. The only child of rich and famous parents, Patty Ziegfeld grew up in such character-building settings as Palm Beach, a medieval fief in Westchester County and a private island in the Laurentians. She was coddled, tutored and pampered, taken to Europe, carried about in private railroad cars, and given such pets as a baby elephant (complete with elephant boy) and such toys as a Mount Vernon replica playhouse. The result? One of the funniest and most joyous petite memoirs in years. The daughter of Florenz Ziegfeld, America's most flamboyant producer, and the feathery Billie Burke, one of its most beloved actresses, shows what love and laughter and an inspired flair for living can do to keep an American princess from growing up into useless royalty. Today Patty Ziegfeld, who lives in California with her architect husband, can tell her grandchildren about 'the little girl who spent her childhood in a fairy-tale world of baby elephants and rooms at the Rita and hothouse grapes and Rolls-Royce cars and lion cubs and governesses and ponies and playhouses' - and still managed to live happily ever after. Today, too, the lucky reader can happily immerse himself in a unique, flat-out-for-fun childhood, and in a more lavish and feckless America than we are likely to see again
31209
Ziegfeld, Flo 1869-1932 Family
Autobiography
927.92 Zie 15
The Ziegfelds' girl: Confessions of an Abnormally Happy Childhood / Patricia Ziegfeld - Boston Little, Brown & Company 1964 - 210 p.
The author of this sparkling book led a childhood which - by all that's Puritan - should have left her a trauma tized and spoiled wreck. The author of this sparkling book led a childhood which - by all that's Puritan - should have left her a traumatized and spoiled wreck. The only child of rich and famous parents, Patty Ziegfeld grew up in such character-building settings as Palm Beach, a medieval fief in Westchester County and a private island in the Laurentians. She was coddled, tutored and pampered, taken to Europe, carried about in private railroad cars, and given such pets as a baby elephant (complete with elephant boy) and such toys as a Mount Vernon replica playhouse. The result? One of the funniest and most joyous petite memoirs in years. The daughter of Florenz Ziegfeld, America's most flamboyant producer, and the feathery Billie Burke, one of its most beloved actresses, shows what love and laughter and an inspired flair for living can do to keep an American princess from growing up into useless royalty. Today Patty Ziegfeld, who lives in California with her architect husband, can tell her grandchildren about 'the little girl who spent her childhood in a fairy-tale world of baby elephants and rooms at the Rita and hothouse grapes and Rolls-Royce cars and lion cubs and governesses and ponies and playhouses' - and still managed to live happily ever after. Today, too, the lucky reader can happily immerse himself in a unique, flat-out-for-fun childhood, and in a more lavish and feckless America than we are likely to see again
31209
Ziegfeld, Flo 1869-1932 Family
Autobiography
927.92 Zie 15