Surviving Cissy : My Family Affair of Life in Hollywood (Hardcover)

from knahs

Autobiography of Family Affair's big sister Cissy who not only survived being a child star but has gone on to expand her career to stage work, voice over work, teaching, and many other things. The book was very detailed about Garver's life and I think could have used some editing. I would have li...

from bah195

This book is a recollection of actress Kathy Garver experiences, from the films, television shows and stage plays in which she performed, to her second career as a voice over specialist in animated films and audiobooks. All I knew of Kathy Garver's work is her appearance on Family Affair and I wa...

from ennie

I know Kathy Garver from her role as teenage Cissy in the 60s/70s series Family Affair. That may be her most famous part, but it turns out she has worked steadily in acting from childhood through the present (stopping along the way to graduate from UCLA). Her career also includes voiceovers, teac...

from AMKee

I received this book for an honest review. I was mislead by the title as I thought that survival meant that there was a major struggle around the show itself, when in actuality it was more of mental struggle within herself to face loneliness. I enjoyed some of the stories about her life and not s...

from busyreadin

I received this book from Library Thing in exchange for an honest review. I felt this was a very misleading title for this book. Surviving, to me, denotes a serious struggle to overcome something. Garver's book chronicles her life in Hollywood from her early childhood forward. However, there is l...