What's it all about? : an autobiography

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This rarity of rarities -- a celebrity autobiography produced without a ghostwriter -- details the author's rise from impoverished London boyhood to international stardom. Born in 1933 and named Maurice Joseph Micklewhite after his father, who was a fish-market porter in London, Mr. Caine knew...

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Main Author: Caine, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Turtle Bay Books, Ã1992.
Subjects:
Caine, Michael.
Caine, Michael > Childhood and youth.
Actors > Great Britain > Biography.
Actors > Great Britain > 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses > Great Britain > Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses > Great Britain > 20th century.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. 'Mumy's out!'
  • 'Very flat, Norfolk'
  • What I got for a chocolate bar
  • Noses off
  • Part II. 'If you can't move it, paint it'
  • 'You never hear the one that gets you'
  • 'It's only malaria'
  • Nowhere to go but up
  • 'It's only a small part'
  • Becoming Michael Caine
  • Understudying O'Toole
  • Raw steaks through the letter box
  • Part III. 'When the magic happens'
  • $1500 a week?
  • The two minutes that changed my life
  • Butch cooking
  • "Alfie"
  • Lemon and Micklewhite
  • Part IV. 'If you want to be a star in America'
  • The elephant to Beverly Hills
  • Cannes
  • Otto's revenge
  • French hours
  • Bardot tries it on
  • 'Oh yes-a Rolls Royce'
  • My worst location
  • Elizabeth and me
  • Part V. Shakira
  • 'Call me Larry'
  • Natasha
  • Gucci shoes
  • "The Man Who Would Be King"
  • Biting the customers
  • "The Swarm" attacks
  • Part VI. Welcome to Beverly Hills
  • Dressed to kill
  • Ma in Beverly Hills
  • The Queen and I
  • How to lose an Oscar
  • Paradise found
  • Part VII. Working with Woody
  • Moving back
  • Scoundrels
  • In my own write
  • A sting in the tail
  • David.

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