The frank, revealing story of Lillian Roth's life! Best-seller now a film sensation.
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
marriage
divorce
alcoholic
drink
hollywood star
breadwinner
traumatic childhood
abusive mother
alcoholic actress
alcoholic woman
ambitious mother