Ruth Leon Livres

Retraces her life from her discovery by Howard Hughes, her professional debut in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hoo! followed by a series of highly successful comedies in the 1950s alongside her personal life, her relationships and the bent for self-destruction, which ended with her death from a drug overdose at 36.

In this lavishly illustrated critical celebr ation, Sheridan Morley and Ruth Leon look back with affectio n at the career, on both sides of the camera, of Gene Kelly, one of cinema''s most popular stars. '