Shady Lady

by Ruth Gordon

Winona Lloyd is determined to do whatever is necessary to become a Ziegfeld girl in 1920s New York

Genres: Fiction

223 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1982

About the author

As well as writing plays, film scripts, and books, Ruth Gordon was an actress of stage and screen. She is perhaps best known for her return to acting later in her career with memorable roles in films such as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Harold and Maude (1971).

She was married to Garson Kanin, with whom she wrote several screenplays.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 1/2 really. I enjoyed some of the depictions of real life characters, but I thought a lot of it was spoiled with too much description of clothes and furniture and I couldn’t really admire the main character, though the ending was sort of great. It had some humor to it, but considering it was, Ruth Gordon, I thought it would be funnier.

[Myra Breckinridge · Rating 1 out of 5]

A cavalcade of proper nouns and sexual trauma.

[Lynn Vannucci]

The Roaring Twenties - a period that enthralls me, by a writer I adore.

[Lynn Vannucci]

The Roaring Twenties - a period that enthralls me, by a writer I adore.