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Original Title:	The Moon's a Balloon
ISBN:	0140239243 (ISBN13: 9780140239249)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	David Niven

The Moon's a Balloon Paperback | Pages: 327 pages

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Title	:	The Moon's a Balloon
Author	:	David Niven
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 327 pages
Published	:	October 27th 1994 by Penguin (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Humor. Biography Memoir

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One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen. Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows how, even as an unknown young man, he knew how to live the good life. But it is his astonishing stories of life in Hollywood and his accounts of working and partying with the legends of the silver screen - Lawrence Oliver, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward and dozens of others, while making some of the most acclaimed films of the last century - which turn David Niven's memoir into an outright masterpiece. An intimate, gossipy, heartfelt and above all charming account of life inside Hollywood's dream factory, The Moon is a Balloon is a classic to be read and enjoyed time and again..

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A self deprecating recount of a life lived to the brim.

C1971: I have always felt that this is the best Hollywood autobiography. It helped that I always liked David Niven in films and the relatively early days of cinema are so interesting. However, his early life and career during the Second World War were, dare I say it, even more captivating. I am certain that, as with everyones memories, there were a few less than accurate details due to his reputation as being a raconteur of note. This is a laugh out loud funny book! I have re-read this book on



I read this book many years ago & absolutely loved it.This time around my enjoyment is slightly clouded by knowing that Niven didn't let facts get in the way of a good story & that he would have been unable to write that his second marriage was deeply unhappy.Also a lot of the names he drops are now forgotten.What is still very good & authentic sounding are his childhood memories & his grief at the death of his first wife. I'd actually be interested in reading one of the

This was interesting throughout with as much emphasis on his years in the military--both before his film career and during WWII--as his film career. And I wish there had been more information on the latter. THE MOON'S A BALLOON was written almost 50 years ago and this comes through in some of his descriptions of sex and drugs. Very readable, though!

Quintessentially English, Niven was a Hollywood star in the time when an English accent and formal manners were in vogue. Successful as he was, as soon as war against Germany was declared, he returned to Britain to fight as a soldier for six years. One of Niven's most famous lines, illustrating just how he could appeal to an audience was delivered when he was presenting the Oscars in 1974 and a naked man ran across the stage behind him, "Isn't it fascinating to think, that probably the only

I read this book nearly fifty years ago and again about twenty years ago. As one who almost never can find the humour or cause for side-splitting laughter in books that are supposed to be funny, I can cite "The Moon's a Balloon" as a book that made me truly laugh.