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74-460: The series is remembered for its multiple format and cast changes over the course of its five-year run. The show is also notable for Day's statement, in her autobiography Doris Day: Her Own Story (1975), that her husband Martin Melcher had signed her to do the series without her knowledge, a fact she only discovered when Melcher died of heart disease on April 20, 1968. (He also received credit on

148-463: A San Francisco cable car followed by her hopping across an intersection crosswalk (the cable car and hopping sequence is not part of this specific commute as she is wearing a red raincoat during it). In the Season 3 opening title and credits, Doris is first seen running down the spiral staircase in her apartment, followed by a long shot of San Francisco itself over the show title. Much of the rest of

222-560: A TV series, The Thin Man (1957–59) with Phyllis Kirk , an NBC series from MGM based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett . It was more successful, running for 72 episodes. In 1959, Sinatra invited Lawford to join the " Rat Pack " and also got him a role in Never So Few (1959). Peter Lawford and Sinatra appeared in Oceans 11 (1960). Lawford had been first told of the basic story of

296-699: A U.S. citizen and assisted on his brother-in-law's successful presidential election. He did a TV remake of The Farmer's Daughter (1962) with Lee Remick and was reunited with the Rat Pack in Sergeants 3 (1962). Lawford played a Senator in Advise & Consent (1962) for Preminger and was Lord Lovat in The Longest Day (1962), a war film with a star-studded cast. In 1961, Lawford and his manager Milt Ebbins formed Chrislaw Productions , which

370-517: A big hit. Lawford was put in a Kathryn Grayson - June Allyson musical, Two Sisters from Boston (1946) which was very popular. Ernst Lubitsch used him at Fox in Cluny Brown (1946) where he was billed after Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones . He won a Modern Screen magazine readers' poll as the most popular actor in Hollywood of 1946. His fan mail jumped to thousands of letters

444-402: A career as an actor, a decision that resulted in one of his aunts refusing to leave him her considerable fortune, as she had originally planned. In 1938, Lawford was travelling through Hollywood when he was spotted by a talent scout. He was screen tested and made his Hollywood debut in a minor part in the film Lord Jeff starring Freddie Bartholomew . The outbreak of World War II found

518-504: A few episodes. Lord Nelson again is not included in the opening credits cast list, but appears uncredited in a handful of episodes this season. The fourth season sees a radical change in the series. Day's character suddenly becomes a swinging single career woman who goes by Miss instead of Mrs. The entire cast from previous seasons, other than Day herself and occasionally the Palluccis, is gone; even Doris Martin's two sons are no longer in

592-502: A ghostwriter, are routinely published. Some celebrities, such as Naomi Campbell , admit to not having read their "autobiographies". Some sensationalist autobiographies such as James Frey's A Million Little Pieces have been publicly exposed as having embellished or fictionalized significant details of the authors' lives. Autobiography has become an increasingly popular and widely accessible form. A Fortunate Life by Albert Facey (1979) has become an Australian literary classic. With

666-904: A huge hit, and Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in Julia Misbehaves (1948), also popular. He played Laurie in MGM's version of Little Women (1949) alongside Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor. He was billed beneath Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore in the anti-Communist The Red Danube (1949) and was one of Deborah Kerr 's leading men in Please Believe Me (1950). He was Jane Powell 's love interest in Royal Wedding (1951) with Fred Astaire and co-starred with Janet Leigh in Just This Once (1952), both popular. 20th Century Fox borrowed him for Kangaroo (1952),

740-807: A melodrama shot in Australia with Maureen O'Hara . Back at MGM he was top billed in some lower budgeted films: You for Me (1953), a comedy, The Hour of 13 (1953), a thriller, and Rogue's March (1953), a war film. The studio then let him go. Lawford's first film after Metro released him and several other players from their contracts was the comedy It Should Happen to You (1954), wherein he starred alongside Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon . He focused on television, guest starring on shows like General Electric Theater , Schlitz Playhouse , and The Ford Television Theatre . In 1954, Lawford married Patricia Kennedy, sister of Senator John F. Kennedy . Lawford would become an enthusiastic fundraiser for

814-660: A minor role at Republic's Someone to Remember (1943) and The West Side Kid (1943), the latter directed by Sherman. Lawford played a soldier in Sahara (1943) and sailors in Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) and Corvette K-225 (1943). He was a Frenchman in Paris After Dark (1943) and Flesh and Fantasy (1943), and was a student in MGM's Girl Crazy (1943) and The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944). Lawford's career stepped up

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888-797: A notch when he was signed to a long-term contract to MGM in June 1943. The studio signed him with a specific role in mind: The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), in which he played a young soldier during the Second World War. Lawford had a small role in The Canterville Ghost (1944) and Mrs. Parkington (1944), playing a suitor of Greer Garson . MGM gave him another important role in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Lawford's first leading role came in Son of Lassie (1945),

962-449: A number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby . French examples from the same period include the memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1614–1679) and the Duc de Saint-Simon . The term "fictional autobiography" signifies novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own autobiography, meaning that the character is

1036-564: A number of highly acclaimed films. In later years, he was noted more for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting; it was said that he was " famous for being famous ". Born in London in 1923, Lawford was the only child of Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford , KBE (1865–1953) and May Sommerville Bunny (1883–1972). At the time of his birth, his mother was married to Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Ernest Vaughn Aylen DSO , one of Sir Sydney's officers, while his father

1110-974: A soldier in Random Harvest (1942), Immortal Sergeant (1942), and London Blackout Murders (1943) (directed by George Sherman), and a navigator in Assignment in Brittany (1943). He had a billed part in The Purple V (1943). At MGM he was a student in Above Suspicion (1943), a soldier in Pilot #5 (1943), a naval commander in The Sky's the Limit (1943) (with Fred Astaire), and an Australian in The Man from Down Under (1943). He had

1184-454: A stronger beat) in Seasons 4 and 5. In the Season 1 opening title and credits, the cast members are seen in an outdoor, family-styled environment. Beyond the cast credits, which show each cast member individually (including Lord Nelson, the sheepdog), the sequence features primarily Doris' family frolicking together in a sunny lakeside meadow. In the Season 2 opening title and credits, Doris

1258-540: A week. With actors such as Clark Gable and James Stewart away at war, Lawford was recognised as a new romantic lead on the MGM lot. Lawford made My Brother Talks to Horses (1947) with Jackie Butch Jenkins , an early work of Fred Zinnemann which was a big flop. He was reunited with Grayson in It Happened in Brooklyn (1947), which also starred Frank Sinatra . Lawford received rave reviews for his work in

1332-884: Is William Hazlitt 's Liber Amoris (1823), a painful examination of the writer's love-life. With the rise of education, cheap newspapers and cheap printing, modern concepts of fame and celebrity began to develop, and the beneficiaries of this were not slow to cash in on this by producing autobiographies. It became the expectation—rather than the exception—that those in the public eye should write about themselves—not only writers such as Charles Dickens (who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels) and Anthony Trollope , but also politicians (e.g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers (e.g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman , and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum . Increasingly, in accordance with romantic taste, these accounts also began to deal, amongst other topics, with aspects of childhood and upbringing—far removed from

1406-423: Is angry with Angie for renting the apartment to a widow with children and a large pet, but he eventually cherishes their new tenants after Billy and Toby praise his pizza. Angie also becomes one of Doris' best friends. Doris begins writing articles for the magazine under the auspices of Mr. Harvey, the assistant editor, but is still mainly a secretary. All of the regular characters from the previous season remain, with

1480-582: Is briefly seen in Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Eagle Squadron (1942), both times as pilots. His first decent role in a major film production was in A Yank at Eton (1942), starring Mickey Rooney , in which Lawford played a snobbish bully. It was very popular at the box office. Lawford was a cadet in Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air (1942) and Junior Army (1942) (starring Bartholomew),

1554-479: Is considered one of the great masterpieces of western literature. Peter Abelard 's 12th-century Historia Calamitatum is in the spirit of Augustine's Confessions , an outstanding autobiographical document of its period. In the 15th century, Leonor López de Córdoba , a Spanish noblewoman, wrote her Memorias , which may be the first autobiography in Castillian . Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad Bābur , who founded

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1628-429: Is followed by a justification of his actions as a Jewish rebel commander of Galilee. The rhetor Libanius ( c.  314 –394) framed his life memoir Oration I (begun in 374) as one of his orations , not of a public kind, but of a literary kind that would not be read aloud in privacy. Augustine of Hippo (354–430) applied the title Confessions to his autobiographical work, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau used

1702-508: Is followed by one with old boyfriend Jonathan Rusk ( Patrick O'Neal ). The series continued with this format until Doris Day left the show choosing not to renew her five-year contract in 1973. Day placed a one-paragraph statement in Variety saying more or less, "Television is not the be all end all". The Doris Day Show was a family-based sitcom for its first three seasons. The drastic premise change for season four in 1971 may be attributed to

1776-418: Is in much the same style as Season 3, except there are no longer children in the cast (only Day, Dehner, and Joseph are credited in the opening) and the cable car and hopping montage moved to before the cast credits. The end of the opening, following the cast credits, features Doris in a fashion show, modeling clothes. In the final episodes of Season 5, however, the credit montage changes. Instead of Day wearing

1850-474: Is seen wearing a bright-yellow overcoat and matching rain hat leaving the ranch in her red convertible - Buck and the boys seeing her off - as she drives into San Francisco to go to work, which includes the show title displayed as she drives along a country highway, followed by her driving over the Golden Gate Bridge . It then moves into a sequence of her first driving down one of the hilly streets of

1924-541: The Mughal dynasty of South Asia kept a journal Bāburnāma ( Chagatai / Persian : بابر نامہ ; literally: "Book of Babur" or "Letters of Babur" ) which was written between 1493 and 1529. One of the first great autobiographies of the Renaissance is that of the sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), written between 1556 and 1558, and entitled by him simply Vita ( Italian : Life ). He declares at

1998-484: The "life and times" of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on the author's memories, feelings and emotions. Memoirs have often been written by politicians or military leaders as a way to record and publish an account of their public exploits. One early example is that of Julius Caesar 's Commentarii de Bello Gallico , also known as Commentaries on the Gallic Wars . In the work, Caesar describes

2072-421: The 1956 Alfred Hitchcock suspense film The Man Who Knew Too Much , in which she co-starred with James Stewart . Despite the opening montage of images changing from season to season, Day singing the song off screen during the opening is the one constant over the entire course of the series, with a more family-oriented version (including a children's chorus) in Season 1 and a more adult contemporary version (with

2146-613: The 7 Hoods (1964) with Bing Crosby — but Sammy Davis Jr. remained loyal and got Lawford a supporting role in A Man Called Adam (1966). He played a washed-up film star in The Oscar (1966). He and Patricia Kennedy divorced in 1966. He guest-starred on shows like The Wild Wild West and I Spy and was in How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967). Lawford went to Europe to star in Dead Run (1967) and The Fourth Wall (1968). He

2220-505: The English film Poor Old Bill . He also had an uncredited bit in A Gentleman of Paris (1931). At the age of 14, Lawford severely injured his right arm in an accident when it went through a glass door. Irreversible nerve damage severely compromised the use of his forearm and hand, which he later learned to conceal. The injury resulted in his being unable to follow a military career as his parents had hoped. Instead, Lawford pursued

2294-754: The Lawfords in Florida . In a matter of days, they realised that they had been stranded. Their money was in Britain and Britain was at war. Their assets were frozen. Peter, then 16, took a job parking cars. When he saved enough money for the fare, he went back to Hollywood where he supported himself working as a theatre usher until he began to get film work. The advent of World War II saw an increase in British war stories and Lawford found himself in demand playing military personnel, albeit usually in uncredited parts. He

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2368-717: The Scottish 14th Earl of Eglinton ) as well as his aunt Ethel Turner Lawford (who married a son of the 1st Baron Avebury ). His aunt, Jessie Bruce Lawford, another of his father's sisters, was the second wife of the Hon Hartley Williams , senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria , Australia. A relative, through his mother, was Australian artist Rupert Bunny . He spent his early childhood in France and, owing to his family's travels,

2442-560: The Senator. Lawford had a regular role on a TV sitcom, Dear Phoebe (1954–55) but the show only ran 32 episodes. When it ended he resumed guest starring on shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre , Screen Directors Playhouse , Schlitz Playhouse again, Playhouse 90 , Producers' Showcase (a version of Ruggles of Red Gap ), several episodes of Studio 57 , Climax! and Goodyear Theatre . Lawford had another starring role on

2516-462: The anti-sex and anti-marriage Manichaeism in attempts to seek sexual morality; and his subsequent return to Christianity due to his embracement of Skepticism and the New Academy movement (developing the view that sex is good, and that virginity is better, comparing the former to silver and the latter to gold; Augustine's views subsequently strongly influenced Western theology ). Confessions

2590-470: The author the ability to recreate history. Spiritual autobiography is an account of an author's struggle or journey towards God, followed by conversion a religious conversion, often interrupted by moments of regression. The author re-frames their life as a demonstration of divine intention through encounters with the Divine. The earliest example of a spiritual autobiography is Augustine's Confessions though

2664-696: The battles that took place during the nine years that he spent fighting local armies in the Gallic Wars . His second memoir, Commentarii de Bello Civili (or Commentaries on the Civil War ) is an account of the events that took place between 49 and 48 BC in the civil war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Senate . Leonor López de Córdoba (1362–1420) wrote what is supposed to be the first autobiography in Spanish. The English Civil War (1642–1651) provoked

2738-442: The cast with no explanation given, and are never referred to again. Doris Martin, still working for Today's World , now has a new editor, Cy Bennett, played by John Dehner , and she is now a full-time staff writer, and later an associate editor. Jackie Joseph joins the cast as Doris' friend and Cy's secretary at the magazine, Jackie Parker. Doris lives in the same apartment and the Palluccis, Angie in particular, are still on hand in

2812-474: The city, followed by general shots of the city (some including Doris), then the cast credits, where Buck and the boys are shown in an outdoor farm environment (Lord Nelson is no longer included), while the Today's World staff members are seen in the office. The opening sequence ends with Doris as a pedestrian on the city streets supposedly rushing off to work. This is interspersed with a sequence of Doris getting off

2886-506: The critical and commercial success in the United States of such memoirs as Angela’s Ashes and The Color of Water , more and more people have been encouraged to try their hand at this genre. Maggie Nelson 's book The Argonauts is one of the recent autobiographies. Maggie Nelson calls it autotheory —a combination of autobiography and critical theory. A genre where the "claim for truth" overlaps with fictional elements though

2960-486: The earlier tradition of a life story told as an act of Christian witness, the book describes Margery Kempe 's pilgrimages to the Holy Land and Rome , her attempts to negotiate a celibate marriage with her husband, and most of all her religious experiences as a Christian mystic. Extracts from the book were published in the early sixteenth century but the whole text was published for the first time only in 1936. Possibly

3034-558: The exception of Pyle's Buck, who appears in only two episodes; no episodes from Season 3 onward take place on his ranch. (Pyle, however, remains on the show's staff behind the scenes, serving as a frequent episode director.) Hampton's character LeRoy appears in only one episode; he now lives in Montana and travels the rodeo circuit to raise the money to buy his own ranch. In this season Doris' nemesis, Willard Jarvis ( Billy De Wolfe ), moves in next door, causing trouble for her and her family in

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3108-429: The family sheepdog in most episodes this season. The ranch no longer has a housekeeper, and no ranch hand was hired to replace LeRoy. Doris tires of the commute between her work and the ranch and relocates herself, the boys, and the dog to San Francisco, where they rent an apartment above an Italian restaurant owned and operated by married couple Louie and Angie Pallucci ( Bernie Kopell and Kaye Ballard ). At first Louie

3182-473: The film by director Gilbert Kay, who heard the idea from a gas station attendant. Lawford eventually bought the rights in 1958, imagining William Holden in the lead. Sinatra became interested in the idea, and a variety of writers worked on the project. Lawford played a British soldier in the acclaimed Israeli-set drama Exodus (1960) for Otto Preminger and had a cameo in Pepe (1960). In 1960, he became

3256-562: The film, while Sinatra's were lukewarm. Lawford later admitted that the most terrifying experience of his career was the first musical number he performed in the musical Good News (1947), the film he starred in alongside Allyson. He was lauded for the role in which he used an American accent. He was Esther Williams ' leading man in On an Island with You (1948) and supported Fred Astaire and Judy Garland in Easter Parade (1948),

3330-459: The first and second season on DVD in Germany contains extensive special features. In Region 4, Umbrella Entertainment has released all five seasons on DVD in Australia. In 2009, all five seasons were re-released with slimmer packaging. Autobiography An autobiography , sometimes informally called an autobio , is a self-written biography of one's own life. The word "autobiography"

3404-528: The first publicly available autobiography written in English was Captain John Smith's autobiography published in 1630 which was regarded by many as not much more than a collection of tall tales told by someone of doubtful veracity. This changed with the publication of Philip Barbour's definitive biography in 1964 which, amongst other things, established independent factual bases for many of Smith's "tall tales", many of which could not have been known by Smith at

3478-488: The first-person narrator and that the novel addresses both internal and external experiences of the character. Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders is an early example. Charles Dickens ' David Copperfield is another such classic, and J.D. Salinger 's The Catcher in the Rye is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography. Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on

3552-446: The fourth season. In season 5, there is no mention of the Palluccis owning the building; the estate of the owner, an elderly man named Mr. Carter, sells the building after Carter's death to Doris' sometimes-nemesis, Mr. Jarvis, which initially alarms Doris, but she and the other tenants eventually accept him. In Season 4, Doris begins a romance with Dr. Peter Lawrence ( Peter Lawford ), which lasts until late into Season 5. That relationship

3626-560: The front page of the original version. The term may also apply to works of fiction purporting to be autobiographies of real characters, e.g., Robert Nye 's Memoirs of Lord Byron . In antiquity such works were typically entitled apologia , purporting to be self-justification rather than self-documentation. The title of John Henry Newman 's 1864 Christian confessional work Apologia Pro Vita Sua refers to this tradition. The historian Flavius Josephus introduces his autobiography Josephi Vita ( c.  99 ) with self-praise, which

3700-485: The next three hundred years conformed to them. Another autobiography of the period is De vita propria , by the Italian mathematician, physician and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano (1574). One of the first autobiographies written in an Indian language was Ardhakathānaka , written by Banarasidas , who was a Shrimal Jain businessman and poet of Mughal India . The poetic autobiography Ardhakathānaka (The Half Story),

3774-466: The opening credits cast as Lord Nelson, the family's sheepdog . Doris begins to commute from the ranch to San Francisco, where she starts working as an executive secretary at Today's World magazine. New workplace characters are added: McLean Stevenson (who would later leave the series to star in M*A*S*H ) plays her boss, Today's World editor Michael Nicholson, who is often referred to as 'Nick' by

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3848-413: The opening sequence is in the same style as Season 2, with the Today's World staff members now credited before Doris' sons, who are seen playing in an urban playground instead of on the ranch. Smith is now included in the opening credits; despite being frequent cast members, Kopell, Ballard, and De Wolfe are not. In the Season 4 and Season 5 opening title and credits, the first half up to the cast credits

3922-461: The other magazine executives; Rose Marie plays Doris' friend Myrna Gibbons, a fellow secretary at the magazine; Paul Smith portrays Ron Harvey, the magazine's assistant-editor and Myrna's boss. Pyle, Brown, and Starke remain regular cast members, while Hampton appears in only one episode, his character now married and owning a gas station in Mill Valley. Lord Nelson still appears uncredited as

3996-593: The overall change in CBS's programming philosophy , with the network canceling many rural-based and family programs, and replacing them with more urban, adult-oriented programs. A number of other actors appeared in notable storylines covering several episodes sometimes over multiple seasons. The opening sequence features Day singing a rerecorded version of the Livingston & Evans song, " Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) ." The song had been introduced by Day in

4070-452: The periodic self-reflective mode of journal or diary writing by noting that "[autobiography] is a review of a life from a particular moment in time, while the diary, however reflective it may be, moves through a series of moments in time". Autobiography thus takes stock of the autobiographer's life from the moment of composition. While biographers generally rely on a wide variety of documents and viewpoints, autobiography may be based entirely on

4144-438: The principles of "Cellinian" autobiography. From the 17th century onwards, "scandalous memoirs" by supposed libertines , serving a public taste for titillation, have been frequently published. Typically pseudonymous , they were (and are) largely works of fiction written by ghostwriters . So-called "autobiographies" of modern professional athletes and media celebrities—and to a lesser extent about politicians—generally written by

4218-468: The program include Doris's father Buck Webb ( Denver Pyle ) and their naïve hired ranch hand, LeRoy B. Simpson ( James Hampton ). Their housekeeper initially is Aggie Thompson ( Fran Ryan , who left after the first 10 episodes to replace Barbara Pepper as Doris Ziffel in Green Acres ). The character left without explanation and was replaced by Juanita ( Naomi Stevens ). Lord Nelson is also included in

4292-615: The same title in the 18th century, initiating the chain of confessional and sometimes racy and highly self-critical autobiographies of the Romantic era and beyond. Augustine's was arguably the first Western autobiography ever written, and became an influential model for Christian writers throughout the Middle Ages . It tells of the hedonistic lifestyle Augustine lived for a time within his youth, associating with young men who boasted of their sexual exploits; his following and leaving of

4366-537: The series as "executive producer" during its initial season.) Day portrays Doris Martin, a widowed mother of young sons Billy and Toby ( Philip Brown and Todd Starke). As the series begins, she has brought her boys home to her father's rural ranch in Mill Valley , north of San Francisco, California , after living in New York City for most of her adult life. Other characters during this initial phase of

4440-400: The start: "No matter what sort he is, everyone who has to his credit what are or really seem great achievements, if he cares for truth and goodness, ought to write the story of his own life in his own hand; but no one should venture on such a splendid undertaking before he is over forty." These criteria for autobiography generally persisted until recent times, and most serious autobiographies of

4514-455: The time of writing unless he was actually present at the events recounted. Other notable English autobiographies of the 17th century include those of Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1643, published 1764) and John Bunyan ( Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners , 1666). Jarena Lee (1783–1864) was the first African American woman to have a published biography in the United States. Following

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4588-426: The tradition has expanded to include other religious traditions in works such as Mohandas Gandhi 's An Autobiography and Black Elk 's Black Elk Speaks . Deliverance from Error by Al-Ghazali is another example. The spiritual autobiography often serves as an endorsement of the writer's religion. A memoir is slightly different in character from an autobiography. While an autobiography typically focuses on

4662-430: The trend of Romanticism , which greatly emphasized the role and the nature of the individual, and in the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 's Confessions , a more intimate form of autobiography, exploring the subject's emotions, came into fashion. Stendhal 's autobiographical writings of the 1830s, The Life of Henry Brulard and Memoirs of an Egotist , are both avowedly influenced by Rousseau. An English example

4736-433: The work still purports to be autobiographical is autofiction . Peter Lawford Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford ( né Aylen ; 7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984) was an English-American actor. He was a member of the " Rat Pack " and the brother-in-law of US president John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy . From the 1940s to the 1960s, he was a well-known celebrity and starred in

4810-480: The writer's memory. The memoir form is closely associated with autobiography but it tends, as Pascal claims, to focus less on the self and more on others during the autobiographer's review of their own life. Autobiographical works are by nature subjective. The inability—or unwillingness—of the author to accurately recall memories has in certain cases resulted in misleading or incorrect information. Some sociologists and psychologists have noted that autobiography offers

4884-538: The yellow pantsuit shown in the Season 3 and Season 4 openers, she wears a black frilled gown as she descends the staircase. This cuts to a shot of her from the Season 5 fashion show in which she wears a tan coat and holds a bouquet of purple flowers. MPI Home Video has released all five seasons of The Doris Day Show on DVD in Region 1. Each DVD release contains extensive special features. In Region 2, Turbine Medien has released all eighteen available German episodes of

4958-812: Was Bette Davis 's leading man in Dead Ringer (1964) and guest starred on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour , Profiles in Courage (as General Alexander William Doniphan ), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre and Run for Your Life . He went on to produce the Patty Duke film Billie (1965) and had supporting roles in two Carroll Baker movies, playing her fiancé both times: Sylvia (1965) and Harlow (1965). By this time, Lawford had fallen out with Sinatra — who replaced him in Robin and

5032-845: Was a popular guest star on TV comedy and game shows. He produced a film starring himself and Davis, Salt and Pepper (1968), and had support roles in Skidoo (1968) for Preminger, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968), Hook, Line & Sinker (1969) with Jerry Lewis , and The April Fools (1969). Salt and Pepper was popular enough for Lawford to raise money for a sequel, One More Time (1970) directed by Lewis. He supported George Hamilton in Togetherness (1970) and guest-starred several times on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In . In 1971, he married Rowan's daughter Mary. Lawford's later films included A Step Out of Line (1971), Clay Pigeon (1971), and The Deadly Hunt (1971). He had

5106-579: Was composed in Braj Bhasa , an early dialect of Hindi linked with the region around Mathura .In his autobiography, he describes his transition from an unruly youth, to a religious realization by the time the work was composed. The work also is notable for many details of life in Mughal times. The earliest known autobiography written in English is the Book of Margery Kempe , written in 1438. Following in

5180-435: Was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review , when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic". However, its next recorded use was in its present sense, by Robert Southey in 1809. Despite only being named early in the nineteenth century, first-person autobiographical writing originates in antiquity. Roy Pascal differentiates autobiography from

5254-412: Was married to Muriel Williams. At the time, May and Ernest Aylen were living apart. May confessed to Aylen that the child was not his, a revelation that resulted in a double divorce. Sydney and May wed in September 1924 after their divorces were finalised and when their son was one year old. Lawford's family was connected to the British aristocracy through his uncle Ernest Lawford's wife (a daughter of

5328-482: Was named after Peter's son Christopher. It signed a three-year deal with United Artists to make three features and two TV series for $ 10 million. William Asher was to be executive producer. Their first project was to be a remake of the old silent film The Great Train Robbery . Half a million dollars instead went toward the 1963 action film Johnny Cool starring Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgomery . Lawford

5402-419: Was never formally educated. Instead, he was schooled by governesses and tutors, and his education included tennis and ballet lessons. "In the beginning," his mother observed, "he had no homework. When he was older he had Spanish, German and music added to his studies. He read only selected books: English fairy stories, English and French classics; no crime stories. Having studied Peter for so long, I decided he

5476-414: Was quite unfitted for any career except art, so I cut Latin , Algebra , high mathematics and substituted dramatics instead." Because of the widely varying national and religious backgrounds of his tutors, Lawford "attended various services in churches, cathedrals, synagogues and for some time was an usher in a Christian Science Sunday School...." Around 1930, aged seven, he made his acting debut in

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