In the Wings: A Memoir

By Diana Douglas Darrid

The author recounts her career as an actress, first marriage to Kirk Douglas, second marriage to author Bill Darrid, and her relationships with her sons, Michael and Joel, and fellow actors.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569801517
• ISBN13: 9781569801512
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Barricade Books Inc
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

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Reading "In the Wings" is an exciting discovery. This is not your run-of-the-mill Hollywood celebrity puff piece, although the cares and joys of the celebrity life are all there. Rather, Bermuda-born Diana Douglas Darrid chronicles the life of a working actress who was married to a superstar, Kirk Douglas, and give birth to another, Michael Douglas. After her divorce from Kirk, she was a single mother of two boys, Michael and Joel, whom she raised alone for some years while continuing her career in film, theater and television. This is a real page-turner, an honest and candid look into the life of a marvelous woman, the kind of person you would wish to have as a friend.