One More Time: A Memoir

by Carol Burnett and Carol Burnette

Book Overview

Carol Burnett spent most of her childhood in a Depression-scarred Hollywood neighborhood, where she lived in a single-room apartment with her endearingly batty grandmother, Nanny, a hypochondriacal Christian Scientist with a buried past. The child of two alcoholic parents, Burnett presents a sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking coming-of-age: from her sadly hopeful mother, who was hooked on Tinseltown fantasy, to the first signs of her own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812969723
• ISBN13: 9780812969726
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

One More Time by Carol Burnett

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book cover to cover!!! I am a major fan of Carol Burnett, love her so much!!!

Carol at her best!

Oh, my goodness! If you don't know the story behind this marvelous entertainer, then this is definitely your book. I laughed and cried all the way through it. I've always loved Carol, but this gives such an incredible idea of why she has always made me laugh and feel good about life. Enjoy!

Just About the Most Charming

Carol Burnett is probably best known for her television show where she performed in various skits with a talented cast. One might not realize just how shy she was as a kid, or that she never dreamed of being a movie star until college. However, it is all here in this autobiography, a charming and personal account of a life filled with entertaining characters. We learn about Nanny, the woman who raised Carol and her younger sister Chrissy. We find out about Carol's alcoholic parents Jody and Louise, very different people and different influences on Burnett's life. There are many stories of growing up, school, various jobs, and family, each incredibly relatable and great fun to read. It is hard to put this book down. It is written to constantly leave the reader wanting more and never disappointing. It is obvious that Burnett has a great love for her childhood although she wasn't always the most popular or the richest. She is an ordinary woman with a life that anyone can latch onto. The only disappointment is that it is so short. Burnett skips talking about her famous tv show as well as the marriage that brought her the three children she wrote the book for. It leaves the reader wanting more. Perhaps there will be a sequel one day; it will no doubt be as good as the first.

A worthwhile read you won't ever forget!

If you're a Carol Burnett fan, you'll acquire a deeper appreciation for her after reading this autobiographical account of her early years. Her parents were divorced alcoholics who died young. She was reared by a grandmother with her own checkered past, sharing a one-room, flophouse apartment with her until she finally moved out to try to make it as an actress. Their story was one of constant struggle and seemingly relentless poverty. Yet Burnett is living proof that, though we are all products of our past, we should never abandon hope. Despite her personal tragedies, she has become someone we all associate with laughter and love. She, like her personal story, is simply inspirational and amazing. A worthwhile read that you won't ever forget!

Outstanding

Although written over 15 years ago, Carol Burnett's autobio is an amazing one. It covers just about all(or seemingly so) of her early years in Texas,her move to California, and at age 21, her moveto New York where she hit the 'big time'. Carol obviously didn't have it easy. Her familywas impoverished and her mother and father wereabsentee parents. Only because of her grandmother,Nanny, did Carol pull through. Although neitherof Carol's parents survived to see her success,Nanny did...and for that I'm sure she'll eternallybe grateful.Unbeknownst to me before reading the book, her mother had an illegitimate baby girl, Chrissy, which she kept...and thiswas back in the 40's when such things werescorned mercilessly. Luckily, just beforeher mother died prematurely, Carol was able to take Chrissyback to New York where she finished her formative years.The coverage stops all too soon...Carol's narrativeis especially inviting. I was hoping that a fewbits about "The Carol Burnett Show" and Harvey, Tim,Vicki, and Lyle would be included, but it's easyto see why that element was left out.Although the structure doesn't really take theform of a letter, the book claims to be a letterwritten for her three daughters. A unique format.My only complaint is that the book contains tens ofpages of Carol's handwritten letters to a guynamed DeNootie (an old friend of hers). In the paperbackversion, they are impossible to read because theprint is overpixelated. Ditto for the section ofphotographs...the photos are all way underexposed.A must-read for any Carol fan. Definitely amongthe best bios I've ever read or will read.

"I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together...."

One of the best celebrity memoirs ever. If anyone ever deserved the success in life that Carol Burnett received, it is she. This little girl, raised in poverty, in a one room apartment, literally steps away from the then- at- its- peak Hollywood Boulevard, a muckle mouthed little dreamer, tended by her cuckoo "Nanny", both parents tragic alcoholics, both of whom did not have a happy ending...This is a fabulous, humble, true success story, about one of the most talented, respected, classy ladies in the history of show-biz. Her telling of her ambition to achieve her dream, in the face of what would have been overwhelming odds to most, is not only incredibly touching, but a lesson in perseverence, and believing in yourself. I tend to write about movies, books, etc.., that are not necessarily "current", and I guess that's because the quality of the originals can't be duplicated, and Carol Burnett is truly one of the "originals." She had and has "the goods." A must read (and read again) about one teriffic lady.