Description
He was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London’s impoverished East End. The slightly awkward, painfully shy lad started acting at age three when his mother sent him to the front door to ward off the rent collector with the well-rehearsed, perfectly delivered line, “Mummy’s out”. From these harsh and humble beginnings, the man who would be Michael Caine emerged as one of the world’s most versatile, enduring, and beloved actors or our time.
With the easy charm of a natural raconteur, Caine takes us onto the sets and into the homes of Hollywood’s most talented celebrities. We witness firsthand the disastrous but hilarious outtakes from his love scene with Shelley Winters in Alfie; the forgotten Rita Hayworth dancing sadly to the theme song of a long-ago triumph; the tyrannical Otto Preminger seeking revenge on the set of Hurry Sundown; working with Woody Allen on Hannah and Her Sisters. Caine also tells the story of his extraordinary marriage to Shakira, whom he saw late one night on a coffee commercial – and fell instantly and hopelessly in love.
Candid, vibrant, and warm, here is a captivating self-portrait of a man who is at once sublimely ordinary and refreshingly unique, one of the greatest actors in film today.
Paperback, 467 pages. In very good preloved condition with the exception of some age related colour change to pages.