Yours Cruelly, Elvira- Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson

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The woman behind the icon known as the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. The paperback includes 32 new images and an original poem composed by Cassandra when she was 16, perfect for fans to collect. At only eighteen months old, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water, resulting in third-degree burns over 35 percent of her body. She miraculously survived, but burned and scarred, the impact would stay with her and become an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Cassandra left home at fourteen and supported herself as a go-go dancer. By age seventeen, she was performing as a showgirl in Las Vegas. Then a chance encounter with the King himself, Elvis Presley, inspired her to travel to Europe where she worked in film and toured Italy as lead singer of a band. She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings. In 1981, as a struggling actress considered past her prime, Cassandra auditioned for a local LA station as hostess for their late-night horror movies. She got the job as Elvira, never imagining it would lead to fame and a forty-year career. Yours Cruelly, Elvira is an unforgettably wild memoir. Cassandra doesn't shy away from revealing exactly who she is and how she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds.

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    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Paperback
    • Product dimension- 8" W x 5.4" H x 1" D
    • Genre- Movies & TV
    • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
    • Page Count: 304
    • ISBN- 9780306874383
    • Cassandra Peterson (Author)
    • Publication Date: 10-04-2022

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Elvira

A three, a four, heck I just don't know. A very campy autobiography about the life of Cassandra Peterson the iconic Elvira. I don't know if she actually wrote this herself or with the help of a ghost writer to pull it all together, but it is both entertaining and sad at times. That said it did seem sloppily put together. When I first started reading, I quickly had enough of her corny jokes, I know that's her style; but it was so annoying that I had to set the book aside for a while. Very close that early on to making it a DNF. Elvira's story was a New York Times Bestseller, but I got the feeling that it was just because she names every famous person that she screwed or almost did. That's usually the ticket for a celebrity bestseller. Jumping back into her life and continuing to read her story it really is quite the story. The degradation she suffered at the hands of her mother, the struggles to achieve the fame she so desperately wanted and at so many times the sexual harassment she endured and struggled through, the boyfriends, the failed marriage and her final pairing with a woman who really loves her certainly makes for quite a read. A pretty good story and she does a nice job of wrapping it all up at the end. I guess I would recommend it if you were an Elvira fan, if you're not you might want to pass on it.

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