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BUTTER WITH MY BREAD by Olga Petrova

BUTTER WITH MY BREAD

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Pub Date: April 13th, 1942
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill

Autobiography of one-time famous theatre and moompix actress, who left her stage career for the quiet life. Born Muriel Harding, she was the ugly duckling of her family and the consistent rebel against her father's discipline. School and France and her grandmother gaze her a taste of liberty and she made a break when her father wanted to marry her off. Then the upward climb, from a job as governess to sensational success in light , under the name of Olga Petrova. Memoirs of revolt, the hard way up, love affairs, marriage, retirement -- well laced with famous names...