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Michael Caine Signed Autobiography
The Elephant to Hollywood
- Subtitle: The Autobiography
- Author: Michael Caine
- Binding: Thick hardback book with dust jacket
- Length: 406 pages
- Published by Hodder and Stoughton
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 978 1 444 70001 5
With a glittering career spanning more than five decades and starring roles which have earned him two Oscars, a knighthood, and an iconic place in the Hollywood pantheon, the man now known to us as Michael Caine looks back over it all. Funny, warm, honest, Caine brings us his insider’s view of Hollywood . Hollywood has been his home and his playground. A plaque now celebrates him at the Elephant in London.
His handprint is one of only 200 since 1927 to decorate the hallowed pavement outside that mecca of Hollywood stars, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. A very British star, The Elephant to Hollywood is the remarkable full circle of Michael Caine’s life.
Caine has written three memoirs across several decades. He published the first, What’s It All About?, in 1992, whose title is a reference to a song in his 1966 hit film Alfie. It was reviewed negatively in The New York Times, which called it an “archetypal show-business memoir” that was engaging but tainted by the book’s “name-dropping, the sexual boasting, the sensitivity to slights”. His second memoir, The Elephant to Hollywood, was published in 2010. Janet Maslin of The New York Times reviewed it positively, calling Caine a “charming raconteur” and “wittily self-deprecating”.
Michael Caine Signed Autobiography