The Wilding Way: The Story of My Life

by Michael Wilding, Pamela Wilcox (Contributor)

Handsome, successful English actor of London stage and film. Second husband of Elizabeth Taylor and father of their two sons, less successful in Hollywood, lover of Marlene Dietrich, married to English stage and film actress Margaret Leighton. Includes many unusual black and white photos.

Genres: Biography Memoir

190 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Michael Wilding is emeritus professor at the University of Sydney. He was a founding editor of the UQP’s Asian & Pacific Writing series, of the short story magazine, Tabloid Story, and co-founder of publishers Wild & Woolley, and Paperbark Press. He has also been a milkman, postman, newspaper columnist, apple-picker, Cosmopolitan ‘Bachelor of the Month’, and Chair of the New South Wales Writers’ Centre. He has published twenty-four works of fiction and books of criticism on Milton, Marcus Clarke and Henry Lawson. He has been translated and published in over twenty countries.

Reviews

[Mick Meyers · Rating 4 out of 5]

enjoyable good old fashioned biography,with nobody coming out of it too bad compared to the kiss and tell kind of today.

[Kristie · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a delightful man and an interesting read! I’ve been binging several of his films lately (which are difficult to find) and, aside from being ridiculously handsome and charming, he was a very competent actor. Unfortunately, aside from being plagued by epilepsy, Hollywood never appreciated him or made good use of his talents. Instead, he was relegated to being known as Elizabeth Taylor’s second husband and stuck in stinker movies outside of his successful UK productions. Despite it all, he remained gentlemanly, grateful and good humored.