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She was born into showbusiness royalty and almost stayed there. Elizabeth Dreyfuss grew up in post-war England in a family where glamour was simply a way of life. Her grandfather was a Music Hall entertainer who fought on the beaches of Dunkirk. Her uncle Stanley Hall was the legendary wig- maker to Marlene Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Vivien Leigh. Her parents styled the hair and make-up of Laurence Olivier and worked alongside David Lean on classic British films. From the beginning, Elizabeth was surrounded by stories, stages, and larger-than-life characters - and she had absolutely no intention of being anything other than one herself. Trained at the Arts Educational Trust at Tring Park - where King Charles II once smuggled his mistress Nell Gwynn through a secret fireplace tunnel - Elizabeth launched a professional acting career that took her from West End pantomimes and touring musicals to BBC television, Hollywood, and the world beyond. Along the way she turned down a lead role in a Richard Donner film, met John Lennon at Apple Studios (her mother called him Paul), sang Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall recordings in her bedroom mirror, and played Anita in West Side Story to standing ovations every night. But life, as Elizabeth discovered, is far messier and funnier than any script. A Girl's Gotta Eat is the gloriously candid memoir of a woman who has navigated an alcoholic father, a career-ending marriage, Hollywood fakery, heartbreak, reinvention, and more than a few situations that could only happen to her. From the working-class pubs of Sussex to the sun-drenched hills of California, she tells it all - the triumphs, the disasters, the famous names, the genuine friendships, and the countless moments when the only reasonable response was to laugh until you cried. Warm, outrageous, and utterly impossible to put down, A Girl's Gotta Eat is a love letter to the performing life, to indestructible women, and to the radical idea that surviving - with your sense of humour intact - is the greatest performance of all. Perfect for fans of memoir, showbusiness history, and anyone who has ever had to reinvent themselves and found a good story waiting on the other side.

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