Shattered love : a memoir

R. Chamberlain

Chamberlain recounts his journey as an impressionable boy growing up in postwar California who stumbled into the Hollywood of big studios, big money, and big personas. Through long days on the set and glittering evenings on the town with Joan Crawford, Princess Margaret, Elizabeth Taylor, Raquel Welch and a cast of other colorful characters, Chamberlain played his Golden Boy role. As time passed, however, he longed to reconcile his deepest self with his public persona who showed him how to gain strength through dissociation and open his heart to forgive and love others, particularly his alcoholic father. He speaks intermittently about his homosexuality, but considers it a nonissue, rather than a political passion.