The Other Side Of The Moon: The Life Of David Niven [Paperback]

A highly readable work & Niven emerges as gallant and gracious. Chicago Tribune

Sheridan Morley wrote this biography of the consummate on-screen English gentleman after speaking to over 150 of Nivens friends and colleagues (only Rex Harrison refused). The result is a picture which both supports and contradicts the charming vagabond persona depicted in Nivens own bestselling memoirs.

While millions throughout his life were enchanted by Nivens happy-go-lucky charisma and world-class anecdotage, he was in many respects a private figure, haunted by a fear of failure, and a victim of several key tragedies in his personal life. Morleys biography is a warm, appreciative but perceptive account which captures both sides of one of Hollywoods most enduringly lovable figures.

A compassionate account that goes past the blithe persona & yet, there is much humorthe actors and his biographersin this notable book Publishers Weekly

Head and shoulders above the average showbiz biography & He understands many of Nivens deeper feelings John Mortimer, Sunday Times

A well-told story & the darker side as well as the mask of a complex and perhaps desperate character. He was a life-enhancer off-screen as well as on The Times

Shrewd and pleasing; shows how dark Nivens moon could be Alexander Walker, Evening Standard