Actress Piper Laurie Writes Absorbing Memories

Learn to live Out Loud: Memoir "(Crown Archetype), a Piper Laurie Rosetta Jacobs was a bright child and thoughtful, but could hardly speak when she was a teenager, theater marquees, and began to take a new name - Piper Laurie - not comfortable. Detroit girl begins to find the strength to speak.

It would take time and pain for her to get a full-throated freedom.

"Learning to Live Out Loud" is a memorial absorbing Laurie that the transition from a personal and professional development of its popular pastime Class B stars Oscar-nominated actress ("Hustler"''Carrie "and" Children of Lesser God "), which was also a memorable roles on television and on stage.

Born in 1932 in the first generation of American Jews - his mother's parents had emigrated from Russia, his father from Poland. They accepted relative silence of his youngest daughter - now believed to be suffering from acute anxiety disorder - certainly much more.

Laurie found her voice through the imaginary world of acting. But she wanted to say something meaningful, too. His career as a Universal contract player in films like 1951's "The Prince who was a thief," was profitable, but not difficult.

Rebellion against his image as a "star happy", he broke his contract with her, despite an uncertain future. Television series in the 1950s honed his talent, but becomes the acclaimed live television play "The Days of Wine and Roses" in 1958 and 1961 the film "The Hustler" with Paul Newman has led to several functions up.

Laurie left films for 15 years. Living in New York, grew personally as wife, mother and artist. His return to the screen as a mother Sissy Spacek in 1976 of "Carrie" has opened a new stage in his career that included the cult television series "Twin Peaks" (1990-1991).

Gregory Peck, his co-star of "other people's money" in 1991, describes one of Laurie's performance as "a series of revelations, moving and true." It could be said to "learn to live out loud." Voice, which is simple and straightforward, he looks back with pleasure and amusement, anger and disappointment, regret and reflections.

Laurie realize what is overlooked by many artists, when they write a special life of transport: a compelling story, but will never lose that intimate complex life a challenge for us all.

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Daniel K. Douglass is the author of "heartless: the life and films of Richard Brooks" (University of Wisconsin Press

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