The Limits of Limelight written by Margaret Porter is a novel based on the real life story of Helen Maurine Brown Nichols. Helen is best remembered if known by the name Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner.
Porter brings to life the journey of Phyllis Fraser from Oklahoma to Hollywood as an aspiring movie star and onto New York as journalist, wife and mother. She was a New York literary fixture and wife of Bennet Cerf and after his death she married former mayor Robert F. Wagner. This book is really about her early life going to Hollywood as the cousin of Ginger Rogers.
An interesting and enjoyable novel that takes the reader back to the early days of movies and life in California with the movie stars of the big screen. Enjoy the name dropping and stories of the stars of the day, Fred Astaire, Clare Bow, Irene Dunn and Myrna Loy among others. Also the important players of Hollywood, Busby Berkeley and RKO studios.
A fun look back and an entertaining storyline of one woman’s life during the time period and her rise to fame.
No comments:
Post a Comment