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Dancing at Ciro's: A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset Strip

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In 1958, young Sheila Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then her world exploded after she witnessed her uncle's brutal attempt to kill her father.

Weller has written a deeply felt memoir of her family's life contrasted with those most glamorous days of Hollywood's forties and fifties. While vividly describing Lana Turner's, Frank Sinatra's, and Sammy Davis Jr.'s evenings--and breakdowns--at Ciro's, Weller casts a keen eye on her own family's turmoil and loss.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Paperback

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Release: March 12, 2004

ISBN: 0312283016

ISBN 13: 9780312283018

Dancing at Ciro's: A Family's Love, Loss, and Scandal on the Sunset Strip

3.5/5 ( ratings)

In 1958, young Sheila Weller was living a charmed life with her family in Beverly Hills. Her father was a brilliant brain surgeon. Her mother was a movie-magazine writer whose brother owned Hollywood's most dazzling nightclub, Ciro's. Then her world exploded after she witnessed her uncle's brutal attempt to kill her father.

Weller has written a deeply felt memoir of her family's life contrasted with those most glamorous days of Hollywood's forties and fifties. While vividly describing Lana Turner's, Frank Sinatra's, and Sammy Davis Jr.'s evenings--and breakdowns--at Ciro's, Weller casts a keen eye on her own family's turmoil and loss.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Paperback

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Release: March 12, 2004

ISBN: 0312283016

ISBN 13: 9780312283018

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