I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir

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Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York Town, actress Lee Furnish spent her early life gathering extra reviews than the general public have in an entire life: from scholar at the famed Group Playhouse to member of the leg­endary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway superstar to Vogue “It Woman.” At age twenty-4, she was once nominated for an Academy Award for Detective Story, and a 12 months later discovered herself married and a mom for the primary time, her occupation on the upward thrust.

And then she misplaced all of it.

Her title landed at the Hollywood black­record, her provides for movie and tv roles floor to a halt, and her marriage fell aside.

Finding reserves of potential she didn’t recognise she had, Furnish took motion towards anti-Communist witch hunts within the arts. She threw herself into paintings, accepting each theater or educating process that got here her approach. She met a person ten years her junior and started a wild, liberat­ing fling that she by no means anticipated might remaining an entire life. And after twelve years of combating the blacklist, she was once in spite of everything exonerated. With cour­age and magnificence, Furnish rebuilt her existence on her personal phrases: first forestall, a starring function on Peyton Place, after which leads in Valley of the Dolls, In the Warmth of the Night, and Shampoo, for which she gained her first Oscar.

Set amid the New York theater scene of the fifties and the superstar-studded events of Malibu within the seventies, I Mentioned Sure to The whole lot evokes a global of political interest and film-superstar glamour. Furnish tells without end pleasant stories of costars and pals comparable to Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, and Sidney Poitier, and writes with the verve and candor befitting any such seductive and liked superstar.

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