Lawrence Welk's First Television Champagne Lady Roberta Linn
Author | : Roberta Linn |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1478171642 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781478171645 |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Roberta Linn tells her life story of growing up as a singer and actress in the Golden Days of Hollywood: sharing a changing room with Shirley Temple, singing for Disney, joining the military at 14, getting the top position for Lawrence Welk and then headlining Las Vegas, falling in love and getting married. But all does not glitter behind the silver scene. She also tells of life's foibles and pitfalls. Read this spectacular biography about how a young girl in her mid-twenties scaled the heights of Tinsel town to win the 1955 Emmy for Best Female Entertainer only to later discover the road of hard knocks and had to to take on a second career selling timeshare for the same person she used to sing for to make a living and how a woman of high moral standards could date a mob connected hotel owner from Palm Springs who was married to another woman only to lose him in a card game gone wrong.