{"product_id":"books-my-first-five-husbands-and-the-ones-who-got-away-by-rue-mcclanahan","title":"My First Five Husbands...And the Ones Who Got Away","description":"\u003cb\u003eRue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Girls\u003c\/i\u003e reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she played.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Raised in small-town Oklahoma in a house \"thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town,\" Rue developed her two great passions--theater and men--at an early age. She arrived in New York City in 1957 with two-weeks worth of money in her pocket, hustled her way into a class with the legendary Uta Hagen, and began working her way up in the acting world against the vibrant, free-spirited backdrop of the sixties. That's when she met and married Husband #1--a handsome rogue of an aspiring actor who quickly left her with a young son. Still, she was determined to make it on the stage and screen--and in the years that followed, rose to the top of the entertainment world with a host of adventures (and husbands) along the way.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From her roles on Broadway opposite Dustin Hoffman and Brad Davis, to her first television appearances on \u003ci\u003eMaude\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e, to the \u003ci\u003eGolden Girls\u003c\/i\u003e era and beyond, \u003ci\u003eMy First Five Husbands\u003c\/i\u003e is the irresistible story of one woman's quest to find herself. Rue is proof that many things can and do get better with age--and that, if she keeps her wits about her, even a small-town girl can make it big.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e People always ask me if I'm like Blanche. And I say, 'Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern Belle from Atlanta--and I'm not from Atlanta!'\" --Rue McClanahan","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674219372817,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780767926942.jpg?v=1781529871","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-my-first-five-husbands-and-the-ones-who-got-away-by-rue-mcclanahan","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}