Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures

Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher's touching, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her.

Growing up in an iconic Hollywood Dynasty, Joely Fisher knew a show business career was her destiny. The product of world-famous crooner Eddie Fisher and ’60s sex kitten Connie Stevens, she struggled with her own identity and place in the world on the way to a decades-long career as an acclaimed actress, singer, and director.

Now, Joely shares her unconventional coming of age and stories of the family members and co-stars dearest to her heart, while stripping bare her own misadventures. In Growing Up Fisher, she recalls the beautifully bizarre twist of fate by which she spent a good part of her childhood next door to Debbie Reynolds. She speaks frankly about the realities of Hollywood—the fame and fortune, the constant scrutiny. Throughout, she celebrates the anomaly of a two-decade marriage in the entertainment industry, and the joys and challenges of parenting five children, while dishing on what it takes to survive and thrive in the unrelenting glow of celebrity. She speaks frankly about how the loss of her sister Carrie Fisher became a source of artistic inspiration.

Fisher’s memoir, with never-before-seen photos, will break and warm your heart.

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Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures

Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher's touching, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her.

Growing up in an iconic Hollywood Dynasty, Joely Fisher knew a show business career was her destiny. The product of world-famous crooner Eddie Fisher and ’60s sex kitten Connie Stevens, she struggled with her own identity and place in the world on the way to a decades-long career as an acclaimed actress, singer, and director.

Now, Joely shares her unconventional coming of age and stories of the family members and co-stars dearest to her heart, while stripping bare her own misadventures. In Growing Up Fisher, she recalls the beautifully bizarre twist of fate by which she spent a good part of her childhood next door to Debbie Reynolds. She speaks frankly about the realities of Hollywood—the fame and fortune, the constant scrutiny. Throughout, she celebrates the anomaly of a two-decade marriage in the entertainment industry, and the joys and challenges of parenting five children, while dishing on what it takes to survive and thrive in the unrelenting glow of celebrity. She speaks frankly about how the loss of her sister Carrie Fisher became a source of artistic inspiration.

Fisher’s memoir, with never-before-seen photos, will break and warm your heart.

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Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures

Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures

by Joely Fisher
Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures

Growing Up Fisher: Musings, Memories, and Misadventures

by Joely Fisher

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Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher's touching, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her.

Growing up in an iconic Hollywood Dynasty, Joely Fisher knew a show business career was her destiny. The product of world-famous crooner Eddie Fisher and ’60s sex kitten Connie Stevens, she struggled with her own identity and place in the world on the way to a decades-long career as an acclaimed actress, singer, and director.

Now, Joely shares her unconventional coming of age and stories of the family members and co-stars dearest to her heart, while stripping bare her own misadventures. In Growing Up Fisher, she recalls the beautifully bizarre twist of fate by which she spent a good part of her childhood next door to Debbie Reynolds. She speaks frankly about the realities of Hollywood—the fame and fortune, the constant scrutiny. Throughout, she celebrates the anomaly of a two-decade marriage in the entertainment industry, and the joys and challenges of parenting five children, while dishing on what it takes to survive and thrive in the unrelenting glow of celebrity. She speaks frankly about how the loss of her sister Carrie Fisher became a source of artistic inspiration.

Fisher’s memoir, with never-before-seen photos, will break and warm your heart.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062695550
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 11/14/2017
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 269,886
File size: 22 MB
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About the Author

About The Author

Joely Fisher is an actress, director, singer, writer, animal rights advocate, butcher, baker, candlestick maker. She is a proud mother, daughter, sister . . . Fisher. The star of numerous TV shows and films, including Ellen, ’Til Death, and Inspector Gadget, she has also starred in Broadway productions of Grease and Cabaret and performed around the world. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her beloved tribe of family, friends, and animals.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 The Road Is My Middle Name 9

Chapter 2 The Fishbowl 36

Chapter 3 Hail Connie Full of Grace 55

Chapter 4 Oh My Papa 95

Chapter 5 Les Animaux: It's a Zoo in Here 123

Chapter 6 Mother … Daughter … Sister … Fisher 132

Chapter 7 243 Delfern 165

Chapter 8 Always a Soubrette, Never an Ingénue 192

Chapter 9 I'm Not a Lesbian … But I Play with One on TV 221

Chapter 10 The Courtship of Eddie's Daughter 249

Chapter 11 The Apple Doesn't Fall Apart Very Far from the Tree 287

Chapter 12 Leading Lady Plays House 311

Chapter 13 Blind Trust 341

Chapter 14 Come Fly with Me 370

Chapter 15 #CarrieOn 377

Chapter 16 Home 397

Chapter 17 After Thoughts 404

Acknowledgments 413

Credits 417

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