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Only Make Believe.


Only Make Believe

Howard Howard, English noble family. Landowners in Norfolk from the 13th cent., the Howards obtained the duchy of Norfolk through the marriage of Sir Robert Howard to Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of Norfolk.  Keel keel

1. the ventrally directed large surface of the bird's sternum, the site of attachment of the major muscles of flight. Called also carina.

2. the prominent area over the sternum in Dachshunds.
 with Joyce Spizer

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The autobiography autobiography: see biography.
autobiography

Biography of oneself narrated by oneself. Little autobiographical literature exists from antiquity and the Middle Ages; with a handful of exceptions, the form begins to appear only in the 15th century.
 of the late Howard Keel (1919-2004), Only Make Believe: My Life In Show Business was written with the assistance of creative writing instructor and former private investigator Joyce Spizer. Keel was a star during the golden age of Hollywood musicals, yet he is perhaps most renowned to younger generations for his decade-long role of Clayton Farlow Clayton Farlow, was a character in the popular American television series Dallas, played by Howard Keel (1981-1991). Clayton Farlow was a dignified, sometimes hot tempered, oil baron. He had a son named Steven "Dusty" Farlow.  on the wildly popular television show "Dallas". From his rough beginnings as the sun of a coal miner who committed suicide when Keel was a young boy, to his first "big break" courtesy of Oscar Hammerstein II Noun 1. Oscar Hammerstein II - United States lyricist who collaborated on many musical comedies (most successfully with Richard Rodgers) (1895-1960)
Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein
 when he was cast in the role of Billy Bigelow in the Broadway production of Carousel, to his American film debut and unsteady personal life, affairs with Hollywood's leading ladies, and three marriages. The true story, in his own words, of an actor who saw his rising star fall with the decline in popularity of musicals, only to make it rise again.
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Title Annotation:Only Make Believe: My Life in Show Business
Author:Buhle, Willis M.
Publication:Reviewer's Bookwatch
Article Type:Book review
Date:Dec 1, 2005
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