Little Me: The Intimate Memoirs of that Great Star of Stage, Screen and Television/Belle Poitrine - Softcover

A satirical view of Hollywood life is presented through the fictional memoirs of an uninhibited woman's rise to fame as a movie actress, following Maybelle Schlumpfert, better known to the world as Belle Poitrine, as she claws her way to the heights of the entertainment world. Reprint.

n print at last! From the author of Auntie Mame: the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva whose life is one hilarious mishap after another.

For Belle Poitrine, née Mayble Schlumpfert, all the world's a stage and she's the most important player on it. At once coy and coercive, with a name that means "beautiful bosom" in French, she claws her way from Striver's Row to the silver screen. Recalling Belle's career, which ranged from portraying Anne Boleyn in Oh, Henry to roles in both Sodom and its sequel Gomorrah (not to mention the classic Papaya Paradise), Little Me serves up copious quanitites of husbands, couture, and Pink Lady cocktails, with international adventures and a murder trial to boot.

A runaway bestseller that made its way to Broadway, starring Sid Caesar in 1962 and Martin Short in 1998, Little Me is now reprint