My Life in Three Acts

Helen Hayes, acclaimed "First Lady of the American Theatre," has been on stage, screen, and television for more than fifty years. In that time she moved among the world's most famous and talented, including Joan Crawford, William Randolph Hearst, Charlie Chaplin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Burton, Lillian Gish, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Gloria Swanson. She treats us to delightful anecdotes about Ethel Barrymore, John Ford, Al Capone. She also reflects more seriously on the painful parts of …