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The Absolute Joy of Work: From Vermont to Broadway, Hollywood, and Damn Near 'Round the World
Paperback
Entertainment & Performing ArtsFilm Studies
ISBN13: 9781629330822
Publisher: Bearmanor Media
Published: Sep 5 2016
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A marvelously entertaining memoir from a uniquely talented artist in the theatre and movies.
- Angela Lansbury
Carleton Carpenter has led many lives, before and after he duetted on 'Aba Daba Honeymoon'. I'm so glad he has chosen to share those lives with us in this wonderful new book.
- Leonard Maltin
At the movies, Carleton Carpenter was the boyish equivalent of an all-American Fourth of July picnic--wholesome, delightful, and utterly without pretense. The story of his life is equally likeable--candid, funny, and full of joy. For anyone who misses the golden days of Broadway and Hollywood, he shares his show business memories without artifice, phony sentimentality, or any of the usual axes to grind. This book puts a smile on your face and keeps it there.
- Rex Reed
At one time or another, Carleton Carpenter has been a bellhop, professional magician, circus clown, church organist, barroom piano player, carny pitchman, commercial spokesman, Navy Seabee, screenwriter, ASCAP composer and lyricist, cabaret singer, vaudeville performer, recording artist, and actor.
He's appeared in more than 20 New York stage productions, countless tours around the country, thousands of TV and radio shows, and two dozen films, mostly for MGM--among them such classics as Father of the Bride, Summer Stock, Three Little Words, Lost Boundaries, Fearless Fagan, and Two Weeks With Love. His recordings of Aba Daba Honeymoon and Row, Row, Row (both with Debbie Reynolds), earned him two Gold Records.
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