For someone who has professed "terminal shyness," Annette André has written her memoir with arresting honesty and generosity. From a lonely childhood in Sydney, Australia, and overcoming a chronic illness to become a professional ballet dancer,
Where Have I Been All My Life? reveals the truth behind her storybook romance with a famous bullfighter, how Benny Hill proposed marriage, and why a chance conversation with Prince Charles helped to change the course of her life. Guest starring with Roger Moore in more of
The Saint episodes than any other actress, Annette quickly became one of the most popular TV actors of Britain's "Golden Age," in such classic series as
The Avengers,
The Prisoner,
The Persuaders! and her most memorable role of all, as Jeannie in
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). From her fly-on-the-wall view of Burton and Taylor's romance while filming
Cleopatra to the perils of shooting
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, and her appearances on the West End stage, Annette found writing the story of her life "excruciatingly hard work, but like a good orgasm, damn well worth the effort."
Decades in the making and featuring a cast of thousands, including George Best, Richard Burton, Maurice Chevalier, Kenneth Cope, Joan Crawford, Tony Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr, El Cordobes, Cary Grant, Peter Graves, Richard Harris, Benny Hill, Bob Hope, Buster Keaton, Sue Lloyd, Ida Lupino, Patrick Macnee, Patrick McGoohan, Liza Minnelli, Sir Roger Moore, Zero Mostel, Paul Newman, Mike Pratt, Phil Silvers, Prince Charles, Aaron Spelling, Elizabeth Taylor, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Richard Todd and My Lodger, the ghost.
