“What a wonderful, loving, beautifully researched and touching story this is! Lyle Talbot lived a charmed life—a player's life—from the final days of vaudeville to the golden years of American television. Somehow through it all (the glamour, the hardship, the stardom, the rejection and the many transformations of modernity) he comported himself with a dignity that feels very much out of time to a contemporary reader. His daughter's tender yet clear-headed remembrance of him is a gift and a treasure—and a top-notch documentation of Hollywood history, besides.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love
“The real life of consummate entertainer Lyle Talbot turns out to be his most unforgettable role. He seems to have been part of every stage of the rise of the modern entertainment industry, yet perhaps his greatest fortune was to have his story so beautifully rendered by his daughter. Weaving together cultural history, biography, and delightful backstage accounts, Margaret Talbot has created a classic of narrative nonfiction—one that would have enthralled even the great man himself.”—David Grann, author of
The Lost City of Z
“Some people are born storytellers. Some people are born with a story to tell. These forces converge brilliantly in The Entertainer, Margaret Talbot's gorgeously detailed and relentlessly inventive portrait of her father's adventures in 1930s Hollywood and on the home front.”—Karen Abbot, author of Sin in the Second City
“Had Margaret Talbot devoted her beguiling prose simply to retelling her father's golden stories of Broadway and Hollywood, The Entertainer would be wonderful. Instead she has entwined those stories with a superb history of what used to be called 'the show business,' and written a brilliant and important book that touches the core of our national experience.”—Sean Wilentz, author of
Bob Dylan in America
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