{"product_id":"my-first-five-husbands-and-the-ones-who-got-away","title":"My First Five Husbands...and the Ones Who Got Away","description":"\u003cb\u003eRue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Girls\u003c\/i\u003e reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she played.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaised in small-town Oklahoma in a house \"thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town,\" Rue developed her two great passions--theater and men--at an early age. She arrived in New York City in 1957 with two-weeks worth of money in her pocket, hustled her way into a class with the legendary Uta Hagen, and began working her way up in the acting world against the vibrant, free-spirited backdrop of the sixties. That's when she met and married Husband #1--a handsome rogue of an aspiring actor who quickly left her with a young son. Still, she was determined to make it on the stage and screen--and in the years that followed, rose to the top of the entertainment world with a host of adventures (and husbands) along the way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom her roles on Broadway opposite Dustin Hoffman and Brad Davis, to her first television appearances on \u003ci\u003eMaude\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eto the \u003ci\u003eGolden Girls \u003c\/i\u003eera and beyond, \u003ci\u003eMy First Five Husbands\u003c\/i\u003e is the irresistible story of one woman's quest to find herself. Rue is proof that many things can and do get better with age--and that, if she keeps her wits about her, even a small-town girl can make it big. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeople always ask me if I'm like Blanche. And I say, 'Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern Belle from Atlanta--and I'm not from Atlanta!'\" --Rue McClanahan","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833757774029,"sku":"9780767926942","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_6fbfcf7a-666b-45e7-b0f6-f843aa4bdd25.jpg?v=1790897570","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/my-first-five-husbands-and-the-ones-who-got-away","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}