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PETER USTINOV Dear Me Autobiography Paperback [Book] [1984]
Header Photo: When he was king. The 50s, 60s & 70s saw Peter Ustinov beefing up even the most mediocre of Hollywood movies in-between being the most listenable world citizen who ever strode this earth. The left handed photo is from Quo Vadis (available @ amazon.co.uk - direct link to Dvd).
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Fascinating read. Really. From start to finish. Funny and yet serious.
'A controversial autobiography, bursting at the seams with uproarious stories, wise saws and modern instances, and abaze with images' - J.W. Lambert in the Sunday Times (London)
'There are actually six Peter Ustinovs, and I admire them all: actor, author, designer, director, playwright ... Their latest contribution, Dear Me, is the minaret gracing their careers, which appear - thank Fortune - to have no end in sight' - Garson Kanin.
It's not what he tells but how he tells it that holds you spellbound. Sheer entertainment. So many stories from his life up to the early 1980s when this book was published (the book was reprinted no less than 7 times up to that point such was the demand!). Just read and enjoy.
Most of us will have a favourite Ustinov film and I'm no exception. One of my favourite films of all time is Carol Reed's The Way Ahead and being fascinated by the minutiae of the making of the film I've long wondered how they got to make the North African shots so real when they had to be done in the studio. The film was made during the 2nd World War so they couldn't possibly have done them on location. Could they? Well it turns out they did and the following are short extracts from the book (the book itself goes into much more depth and detail) explaining just how they were done. Text below © Penguin.
'Eventually shooting began in Denham Studios, and with it, the exciting news that we would do our locations in North Africa'
'The journey to North Africa was uneventful, if one can cal frequent submarine alarms and mountanous seas uneventful. We were aboard a luxury liner, The Monarch of Bermuda, together with Canadian, British and New Zealand troops, and a single Italian officer' (a beautiful and touching story of the Italian then follows)
'Also aboard were a handful of American sportsmen, on their way to entertain American troops with illustrated films of their exploits. Among the group was Jack Sharkey, an ex-heavyweight champion of the world. He was an engaging if monosyllabic character who drank rather heavily one night when the seas were particularly high' (amusing Sharkey story follows)
'In Algiers we acquired another temporarily rejected colonel to help us...'
'Shooting in Philippeville before a fine stucco house...'
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For those viewing the page on anything bigger than an ipad, well that photo needs no introduction for anyone with but a passing interest in Ustinov-world. Probaly today the role that most associate Ustinov with in their mind's eye. 
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