Dear Dudley: Life and Laughter: A Celebration of the Much-Loved Comedy Legend [Hardcover]

Barbra Paskin was the late Dudley Moore’s official biographer, having known him well for many years. In this latest book, she provides an affectionate celebration of this extraordinary comic and musical talent. Although the book examines his extraordinary life and career from the ground-breaking stage revueBeyond the Fringe, followed by his long association with Peter Cook that produced such immortal television programs asNot Only . . . But Also, to Hollywood stardom with films like10andArthur, it is more than a biography. Uniquely,Dear Dudleyalso publishes for the first time a selection of the many kind, comforting, and often extremely funny letters that the author obtained from more than 100 leading celebrities to mark Dudley’s 64th birthday, from the Rolling Stones to Michael Caine, Billy Joel to Paul McCartney, Goldie Hawn to Woody Allen—all of whom have given permission for them to be reproduced in the book.

Includes letters from Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Ali McGraw, Angie Dickinson, Barbara Mandrell, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Bo Derek, Burt Bacharach, Carol Burnett, Chevy Chase, Christopher Cross, Dave Brubeck, Dawn French, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Dyan Cannon, Eartha Kitt, Ed Asner, Emma Thompson, Eric Idle, Goldie Hawn, Hayley Mills, Itzhak Perlman, Jack Lemmon, Jackie Collins, Jeff Bridges, Joan Rivers, John Gielgud, John Voight, Karen Black, Lauren Bacall, Liza Minnelli, Lynn Redgrave, Mary Tyler Moore, Mel Brooks, Michael Caine, Michael Palin, Mick Jagger, Milton Berle, Norman Lear, Olivia Newton-John, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Peter Falk, Phil Collins, Quincy Jones, Roger Moore, Tracey Ullman, Twiggy, Whoopi Goldberg and many more

Barbra Paskinis a British journalist who writes arts and entertainment stories for newspapers, magazines and broadcast around the world. She was the BBC's first Hollywood correspondent in the late 1970s, and at that time was the only feml%