The first part of his biography, The Moon in a Balloon, was a best seller as was the second part - Bring On The Empty Horses. But they did feel rather disconnected, especially the segments at the end that went for just a few pages each, again and again. Mike Curtiz was the director of The Charge of the Light Brigade and his Hungarian-oriented English was a source of joy to us all. In 1959, he became the host of his own TV drama series, The David Niven Show, which ran for 13 episodes that summer.

This autobiography read likes a desription of the classic Hollywood of the 30's to the 50's and is informative but most of all it is fun to read. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. You spend an entire evening and talk into the night recounting their mis-adventures, hilarious scrapes and some deliciously engaging anecdotes whose veracity you can never be 100% certain about.

Written in much the same lightly flippant, entertaining style, he focuses on personalities such as Louis B. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the second part of David Niven's internationally bestselling autobiography, following the superbly entertaining THE MOON'S A BALLOON. This is the follow-up to David Niven's first memoir ( The Moon's a Balloon), but this book is centered on the stories of Niven's friends and co-stars and directors. Niven is never boring and often so charming that one is so lulled by his general tone, and you no longer care about anything save reading more of the same.

There are very few villains here (except of course, the newspaper columnists and the committee hunting communists- I forget its name), and all the stories are told with understated wit and humour.

These were times of legendary film stars and despotic producers, of tycoons, of oddballs, and of classic movies. All of these people, and many more, played an intricate part in David Niven's life and became lifelong friends. Tape shadow marks to the end papers where the dust wrapper was protected in brown paper, now removed.

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You can tell he holds back or changes some details to be fair to his subjects, but the reading is still fun. Who knew David Niven was so present during the Golden Age, I thought as I was reading it; turns out he inserted himself into many other people's stories to 'protect their privacy', which somewhat lessens the resonance of a memoir. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Both books were highly acclaimed by the critics and remain as wonderful reminders of a much-loved actor who epitomised, for many, the essential British gent, even when surrounded by the stars of Hollywood.

I love it and the book was rich with lots of juicy Hollywood gossip and inside information about the legendary Hollywood Stars. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Second impression hard back binding in publisher's original pink cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. This is David Niven's follow-up to The Moon's a Balloon and is a series of wonderful stories (with a few heartbreaking ones)about the culture of Hollywood between 1935 and 1960.When asked which biography/memoir I best prefer, I am unable to hold back my admiration of David Niven's work here in Bring on the Empty Horses.