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No Bed of Roses

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Her story is at the heart of the Hollywood story. She started her film career at seventeen, competed all her life with her famous sister Olivia de Havilland, was pursued by men like Howard Hughes, Prince Aly Khan, Adlai Stevenson. …

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Her story is at the heart of the Hollywood story. She started her film career at seventeen, competed all her life with her famous sister Olivia de Havilland, was pursued by men like Howard Hughes, Prince Aly Khan, Adlai Stevenson. In her new book, she tells what its like to be the youngest woman to win the Academy Award, and what it's like to fail on four separate nights. Her name is Joan Fontaine and *No Bed Of Roses* is the story, no one else could write for her. The most glamorous, candid, and personal of all the Hollywood "tell-all" stories with 16 pages of photographs.

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"Her story is at the heart of the Hollywood story. She started her film career at seventeen, competed all her life with her famous sister Olivia de Havilland, was pursued …"

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