A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point

by Rose Hobart

Overview

Rose Hobart enjoyed an extensive theatrical career in the 1920s, became a Hollywood leading lady in 1930, and had a second film career as a character player in the late 1930s and 1940s. The autobiography is peppered with famous names from Broadway to Hollywood, but it is also a highly personal work in which Hobart unabashedly discusses her three marriages and her failures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810828629
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/1994
Series:	The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series , #40
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	5.86(w) x 8.72(h) x 0.65(d)

What People are Saying About This

Norman Lloyd

Rose Hobart, a fine actress...is a consummate professional and evokes the past with objectivity and humor. From tent shows to Broadway to Hollywood, her talent brought distinction to the profession of acting.

Editorial Reviews

This chatty, bluntly honest 'travel book' of the inner mind is marvelous reading.

Filmfax Magazine

[Miss Hobart's] story maintains a politely ethereal distance from the emotional wreckage of her private life, and the book is sure to sustain the Rose Hobart mystique.

Films In Review

Rose Hobart, a fine actress...is a consummate professional and evokes the past with objectivity and humor. From tent shows to Broadway to Hollywood, her talent brought distinction to the profession of acting.

Norman Lloyd

This chatty, bluntly honest 'travel book' of the inner mind is marvelous reading.--Filmfax Magazine

[Miss Hobart's] story maintains a politely ethereal distance from the emotional wreckage of her private life, and the book is sure to sustain the Rose Hobart mystique.--Films In Review

Rose Hobart, a fine actress...is a consummate professional and evokes the past with objectivity and humor. From tent shows to Broadway to Hollywood, her talent brought distinction to the profession of acting.--Norman Lloyd

From the Publisher

[Miss Hobart's] story maintains a politely ethereal distance from the emotional wreckage of her private life, and the book is sure to sustain the Rose Hobart mystique.

Films in Review

This chatty, bluntly honest 'travel book' of the inner mind is marvelous reading..

Filmfax

Hobart writes about the first 45 years of her life, including her childhood in New York, the start of her theatrical career in Chautauqua, her adventures as a Hollywood actress, the demise of three marriages, and her efforts to clear her name after being blacklisted in Hollywood. Of special interest is the sane perspective that Hobart, now 89, brings to her story and her attention to the connections that pull these seemingly disjointed events together into a coherent story of a life. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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