![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.Ĭopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. 'My Life in 3 Acts' is the third of Hayes' recollections and was published just 2 years before her death. My favorite Hayes performance was from 'Anastasia' (1956). One wishes for more depth, more detail still her many admirers will want to read this. Her life was more devoted to the stage, and hence most readers will not have seen this work, but she managed 50+ performances on TV and 20+ films. Belying her goody-goody persona, her comments on people she has known and worked with are often pointed. Obviously more comfortable talking abut others than herself, she of fers many delightful anecdotes about such friends as Ruth Gordon, Lillian Gish, and Bea Lillie. She is candid, but does not dwell on the difficulties of her marriage to playwright Charles MacArthur, whose drinking problem increased after the death of their young daughter from polio. ![]() Debuting on Broadway in 1909, she was a well-known actress by the age of 20 and the "first lady" of the American theater since the 1930s. Now at the age of 89, she looks back on her 80 years in the theater. Hayes has already written on growing old- Our Best Years (coauthored with Marion Gladney LJ 7/84)-and with Thomas Chastain, she has authored a mystery. ![]()
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