Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood Audiobook (Free)

Film story Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens, his wife of nearly sixty-three years, look back on an eternity filled with drama both on and off the display screen. Sharing priceless correspondence with each other as well as the celebrities and world leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne is a candid portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls of a Hollywood life lived in the general public eye.

Compiled from Anne’s private archive of letters and photographs, this is an intimate glimpse in to the Douglases’ about Kirk and Anne: Letters of Appreciate, Laughter, and an eternity in Hollywood courtship and marriage established against the setting of Kirk’s display screen triumphs, like the Vikings, Lust FOREVER, Paths of Glory, and Spartacus. The letters themselves, aswell as Kirk and Anne’s vivid descriptions of their experiences, reveal remarkable insight and anecdotes about the renowned figures they understood so well, including Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, the Kennedys, as well as the Reagans. Filled up with photos from film units, private occasions, and public occasions, Kirk and Anne details the ambitious, oftentimes comic, and poignant reality behind the glamour of a Hollywood life-as only a couple of sixty-two years (and keeping track of) could tell it.