Intermission: A true story Hardcover – January 1, 1976

I always liked beautiful Anne Baxter in her movies but never guessed she was such a unique and daring lady in real life. Anne was the granddaughter of famed architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, and she certainly inherited his intellect and spirit of adventure. After a life of luxury and fame as a top Hollywod star, she leaves all this behind to marry handsome Australian land owner and businessman, Ran Galt who was several years her junior. She and her small daughter by first husband, John Hodiak, move to the land down under with Galt. They move into an ancient concrete house with no modern conveniences in a sparsely populated area of the country. In the years that followed, Anne, with very little help, remodeled the house, planted lawns and gardens, cooked, cleaned, gave birth to two babies, managed to make a movie or two....all the while trying to be the perfect wife to Galt, a restless and complex man.This is an incredible story which Anne wrote with delightful style. I only wish she had written a full autobiography before her death. What a great read that would have been!!

A patronising look at this ladies short time in Australia in the early 1960's . I am almost finished this book and only ordered it as I travel through the Gloucester area several times a year. Anne paints an unhappy picture of her marriage and life in the bush (today it is 4 hours north of Sydney - even then by Australian standards, it was hardly in the middle of nowhere). Her unhappiness paints a grey image of the life and people she encountered at that time. The people who met her must have been very hurt by her mocking tone and paints them as simple country bumpkins. Her "lonely" life on a property was interspersed with flights back to Sydney (her husband had a light aircraft on the property, trips to LA, Honaloulou and London - not bad!. I'm finding it harder and harder to sympthise with this spoiled woman and distant husband. She should have divorced sooner and gone back to the life she craved a lot sooner. The love had died a long time before. Bit like how I'm feeling about this book. Also, the veiled attempt to change names is weak at best Worcester/Gloucester, Union Station/Central Station.

Very nice book

Book came in condition promised. It is an old book so some yellowing of the pages. I was delighted to find it. Hard to believe the living conditions she went through in the outback of Australia. Bought the book for a friend who has family moving to Australia.

Very good autobiography by one of my favorite actresses!

The book arrived on time and was in excellent condition. I was very in pressed by the condition of the book and it was the first addition that I same edition Intermission  had but lost some where along the way and years.

This is a great book on the Australian bush by a brilliant woman. Almost every page has a memorable phrase. Her Grandfather was Frank Lloyd Wright, the great architect, and his genius was inherited.

Pages unevenly cut & no photos inside which meant a degree of disappointment. My fault I guess for not knowing there were no pictures inside.

This book tells me absolutely nothing about Anne Baxter and I got no insights into her husband, Ran. I got some sense of her environment in Australia where she only had a few people to talk to and couldn't afford a social spat with people she didn't connect with.It's not until page 307 where she speaks about working with Alfred Hitchcock on 'I Confess' and Cecil B. DeMille on 'The Ten Commandments'. She managed to fit in two films between costume fittings on 'The Ten Commandments' over eight months. There was a wardrobe still taken of her from behind in which everything was visible. I would've liked to have seen that.Darryl F. Zanuck may be right when he said that she was a 'cold potato'. She doesn't come across as a warm person which is probably people she knew ignored her like a stranger.

Delighted to find this book. I've been trying to get hold of it for ages.

Prompt delivery and the book was just as described. I am just halfway through reading it, so far very good.

its the worst book i,ve ever read