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Any comprehensive film library needs this
Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty - but actress Diahann Carroll isn't conventional and her career defied the norm. Any who have followed her films will find her autobiography The Legs Are the Last to Go is a gripping story of her career, her professional and personal relationships, the lessons she's learned from Hollywood and life, and racial politics in Hollywood. Any comprehensive film library needs this.

The ego is the last thing to go::
I must say I really enjoyed reading this book. I reaaly love the way she tells a story.I guess all Hollywood divas have BIG ego's,how could you not(smile).great book,love her,love her. I hope she brings her one women show to Dallas

Spilling the Beans
At age 73, Ms Carroll has garnered a vast amount of experience and is spilling all the beans. She speaks of her parents who persevered despite many obstacles and hardships and were able to send their daughter to the new high school of music and art where she did very well. Both parents lived to their nineties. her father who at one time was almost set on fire by racists, lived to see a black man running for president of the US. Diahann speaks of her husbands - yes there were four of them; and relationships which include Sydney Poitier and David Frosst. Of course she had to deal with racism herself, the cruelty of show business and the limited opportunities for black performers. But she persevered. Now looking back she can see her own pitfalls. But she is finally in a good place - a place of contentment. An inspiring book!

One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
In her memoir, The Legs Are The Last To Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying & Other Things I Learned The Hard Way, Diahann Carroll stresses this is not a biography (she has already written that in 1982), but rather a discourse on life lived on one's own terms. Carroll, star of stage, television, and the silver screen, waxes philosophically on love, motherhood, racism and show business with a confidence that she has been accustomed to her entire life. Raised by working class parents from South Carolina, who through the proverbial pulling up of their bootstraps, ascended into the black middle-class in New York in the 1940s and 50s. While Carroll was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she exhibited a great talent in the arts with her singing and musical training. Plucked out of her performing arts high school into modeling, and eventually acting and singing, she crossed barriers and bucked traditions. For instance, she played the lead in "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" on Broadway, a role written for a white woman. Additionally, she was the first African American woman to have a television series, "Julia", in the 1960s. While she was very successful in her professional life, Carroll struggled with her personal life, counting four failed marriages, numerous affairs, and her ever-conflicting role as mother to daughter, Suzanne. Carroll regrets the missed opportunities with her daughter because she was so busy building a career. When they did have time together appearances were always important, and being dressed to a "T" in public took precedence over being mommy. It was always about Diahann and what she wanted. And what Carroll wanted was Sidney Poitier, THE Sidney Poitier, the academy award actor, who as a senior citizen still makes women swoon. Despite his being married, Carroll was willing to give up her marriage to her daughter's father, Monte Kay, only to be rejected by Poitier. A marriage to singer Vic Damone and a long-time affair with TV personality, David Frost, floundered, both relationships wracked by insecurities and bad judgment. It appears that Carroll simply made poor choices, continually, over and over, when it came to men. It is only in her "golden" years, now that she is in her 70s, that she has found satisfaction in being alone. A brush with breast cancer and being a grandmother has sobered and mellowed her into a peace she has long sought. After all, when everything on you starts to sag, the legs are the last to go and Carroll is still standing tall in her high heels. Dera R. Williams APOOO BookClub

Wonderful book... I'd buy it TWICE!
As a younger woman who has followed Diahann Carroll's life and overall career in entertainment that has spanned over the last 40 years, I truly admire this "literary opportunity" to read, take and adhere to the words of wisdom from a woman who has been there and done that... several times over. I believe Diahann to be LIVING proof, to the admirer and unadmirer, of what a life lived gracefully trimmed with beauty can accomplish. I can only hope and pray now at age 28 that I can still work a pair of heels at age 73. True beauty, both inner and outer, is one that is maintained for a lifetime. You go, Ms. Carroll!