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After All

She was America's darling: actress, producer, star of the golden age of television. Her work on The Dick Van Dyke Showand The Mary Tyler Moore Showgarnered multiple Emmys, followed by critical acclaim for her acting on Broadway and in film. Now, in her witty, candid, heartbreaking autobiography, Mary Tyler Moore tells all, about...the Dick Van Dyke nobody knows...Elvis, her sly, seductive co-star inChange of Habit...how Carl Reiner taught her to cry while being funny...Robert Redford's confession after casting her in Ordinary People...about then-First Lady Betty Ford's inebriated debut on The Mary Tyler Moore Show,and years later, her phone call that saved Mary's life.

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Mary spares nothing as she recounts her traumatic childhood, two failed marriages, her own alcoholism, the tragic death of her son, and her third, happy marriage to a cardiologist eighteen years her junior. Moving, inspiring, and brutally frank, After Allwill touch every reader's heart and soul.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 432 pages

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