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A Pot for Every Lid: Trials, Triumphs, and Survival during the Twentieth Century

by Eleanor Fairchild Cadwallader

378 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2604; ISBN 1-4120-4795-1; US$26.76, C$33.45, EUR21.74, £15.07

About a New England girl in New York as a dancer during the Golden Years of Broadway and Hollywood; the famous people she met as she struggled and overcame alcoholism.

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A beautiful and powerful book about the trials and triumphs of a New Enlgand girl in New York as a dancer, during the Golden Years of Broadway and Hollywood. The author recalls her encounters with many famous and influential people and talks about her struggle with alcoholism.

About the Author

Ellie arrived in New York from an intellectual, middle-class New England family background, a strict boarding school, and a short time spent at a mid-wstern college. These were the depression years, World War II years, and also the Golden Age in Broadway Theatre and Hollywood movies.

She had trained to be a pianist, but longed to be a dancer. She found her paths crisscrossing with many hopefuls, famous, or soon to be famous. She also pioneered in the early days of television.

Directors, John Murrary Anderson to George Abbott; choreographers, Agnes de Mille, Hayna Holm, Jack Cole to Robery Alton; teachers, Anthony Tudor to Carmelita Maracci; renowns from Walter Winchell, Al Capp to Ethel Barrymore and Nita Naldi, all left a mark on Ellie, as did many others not listed here.

Running through her life was an addiction to alcohol, which eventually lead to total defeat and then finally to blessed recovery. Ellie has now been sober for forty years, and appreciates the past and enjoys the present.

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