{"product_id":"how-to-grow-old-disgracefully-9780312022204","title":"How to Grow Old Disgracefully","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter ones dead  people write such terrible things about one. Of course  in my case theyll be true  but Id rather write it myself and set the record straight.\" -Hermione Gingold  Described as \"an amalgam of Groucho Marx and Tallulah Bankhead\"  Hermione Gingold was the last of the British eccentrics. The red-headed actress wowed audiences all over the world with her devastating wit and her reputation as a man-eater  witch  and queen of \"high camp\". Her vigorous acting career spanned seventy-eight years  from childhood appearances on the British stage with young Noel Coward  Shakespeare at Londons Old Vic Theatre  to her outrageous comedy performances in West End and Broadway revues. Her enduring film roles include The Music Man  Bell  Book and Candle  and Gigi  in which she sang the unforgettably bittersweet duet with Maurice Chevalier  \"Ah Yes  I Remember It Well\". At the age of eighty-one  she was once again the toast of Broadway in Side by Side by Sondheim. That same year she enjoyed her last great love affair  with a man fifty-three years her junior.  Written in her own inimitable and very personal style  How to Grow Old Disgracefully is a hilarious  no-holds-barred  outrageous self-portrait of the actress once dubbed \"the funniest woman in the world\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792386711605,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312022204","price":241.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312022204_91e4c474-3346-45bc-9d93-82d38d8168e5.jpg?v=1784748144","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/how-to-grow-old-disgracefully-9780312022204","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}