Table of Contents
Preface to the Updated Edition x
Foreword to the Updated Edition Kim Kendall Campbell xii
Foreword xiii
How this Book Came to Be Maraday Wahlborg
Prologue 1
Chapter 1 "If anyone suggested anything, she was game for it." 5
Chapter 2 "Of course, there was nobody in London." 14
Chapter 3 "That's Kay Kendall and she's supposed to be in the chorus!" 18
Chapter 4 "We're going to take a chance with you." 28
Chapter 5 "You have no talent. Find some nice man and get married." 35
Chapter 6 "I need someone to look after me, wifey." 43
Chapter 7 "We made ourselves ill with laughter." 48
Chapter 8 "People think I'm the gayest thing on two legs, but I get awfully depressed at times." 53
Chapter 9 "Come on, come on, getcher autographs here!" 59
Chapter 10 "I have two hired Jailers looking for you at this very moment." 66
Chapter 11 "You stupid, long-nosed English actor!" 66
Chapter 12 "It's about the worst case I know." 80
Chapter 13 "I am not thinking of matrimony either with Mr. Harrison or anybody else." 86
Chapter 14 "My career is still important, but it's not that important." 95
Chapter 15 "I won't be any good at it! She needs a strong person." 105
Chapter 16 "It is Kay Kendall who shines brightest … a constant pleasure and surprise." 110
Chapter 17 "I just wanted that sense of being at home-my first real home. 118
Chapter 18 "They were just lost, they were so deeply in love with each other." 123
Chapter 19 "Diggy, I think I'm dying … and they won't tell me." 133
Chapter 20 "If you think I'm coming here to die, you're wrong!" 141
Chapter 21 "No one was ever born into the world with such a bright genius for living." 152
Filmography 159
Notes 169
Bibliography 183
Acknowledgments? 185
Index 187
Illustrations follow page 82