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The superstars of an era, singing star Bobby Darin and movie star Sandra Dee were the perfect American show business couple. Now, their son reveals the fascinating truth about these stars, based on his own memories, interviews, and letters. Features rare photographs.
- Sales Rank: #144626 in Books
- Published on: 1994-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x .88" w x 6.14" l, 1.57 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 371 pages
- ISBN13: 9780446517683
- Condition: New
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From Library Journal
Darin was an extraordinarily talented singer who became a pretty good actor; Dee was an extraordinarily beautiful child model who became a pretty good actress. Both were major stars when they married-she at age 16 and he at 24-and this is the fairly depressing story of their lives and of their brief marriage as told by their son. Dodd Darin relies on his own memory and on extensive recollections from the family's friends and associates. His father suffered from a heart condition that he knew would kill him at a relatively young age and that led him to concentrate on his career to a fanatical degree. His mother was a teenaged alcoholic, hobbled by an abusive childhood and an intrusive, overprotective mother who never permitted her to grow up. Their marriage was doomed from the start, and this book is their son's way of trying to deal with his conflicting feelings about their lives and his father's death. The book's tone varies from chatty to despairing but is always intensely personal, giving the reader the unsettling impression of eavesdropping on someone else's psychotherapy. Recommended only for large general collections.
--Rick Anderson, Contoocook, N.H.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
At first glance, a book about singer Bobby Darin and his onetime wife, actress Sandra Dee, would seem to be of interest only to their son, Dodd, who happens to be the book's author. But glance again. With the help of cowriter Maxine Paetro (oddly absent from the title page), Darin has fashioned a real page-turner--part insider's look, part expos{‚}e, part cri de coeur from the author, an injured bystander on the scene of a broken celebrity marriage. Those who remember Bobby and Sandra, stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s, will do so from his songs ("Mack the Knife," "Beyond the Sea") and her movies (A Summer Place, Gidget). Darin, a brash, sometimes unlikable scrambler, moved fast because a damaged heart ensured that he would die young. Dee, an American sweetheart, was a closet anorexic, sexually abused by her stepfather. Darin died in 1970 at age 35, but Dee survives, an alcoholic and a recluse. The book is peppered with quotes from celebrities, but its strength is the vivid chronicling of Dodd Darin's intense personal journey and his own observations of what life was like with two talented yet tormented people. Ilene Cooper
From the Back Cover
Every night, I hope and pray A dream lover will come my way... For a generation those words evoke memories of a happier, more innocent time, when Bobby Darin electrified America and Sandra Dee was everybody's sweetheart. When they became husband and wife, the marriage looked like the picture-perfect culmination of an American dream. But was it? In this intensely personal biography the son of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee goes far beyond the ordinary celebrity bio, revealing the real story behind his parents' shining image - their troubled childhoods, up-and-down careers, brief marriage, and tumultuous lives together and apart. Bobby Cassotto was a manic, fast-talking street kid from New York who scratched and clawed his way into the music business. But his charm was fueled by an illness that he knew would shorten his life and the secret scandal of his true mother's identity. Sandra Douvan was the sweet, wispy-thin teenage model from New Jersey who seemed to rise to fame without effort. But Sandra had her own dark secrets: a lifelong obsession with food and dieting, and sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. At sixteen she had never been kissed, and found herself in love with twenty-four-year-old Bobby Darin. Bobby's career was still rising as he restlessly reinvented himself from a pop crooner to an acclaimed actor, music producer, and blockbuster nightclub performer. Twelve years later Bobby was dead, Sandy was beginning a life as a Hollywood shut-in, and America was changed forever.
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135 of 136 people found the following review helpful.
A courageous look at two entertainment idols by their son
By Dan Berger
"Dream Lovers" is a daring book. Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee's son Dodd Darin sorts through his parents' shattered lives and marriage. His express purpose is to write definitively rather than risk seeing their story further distorted by others. He also seeks therapy: making sense of himself by exploring his parents' lives.
In a fine writing job by collaborator Maxine Paetro, Dodd tracks their trail of secrets by talking to those who knew them best. They had deeper secrets than most. Bobby never knew who his real father was, a secret his mother and grandmother took to their graves with them. And Sandra's childhood sexual abuse by her stepfather - combined with her overprotective mother and the cocooning studio system - left her an eternal child who couldn't cope with life after her movie contract ended.
I praise Dodd for so unflinchingly detailing their flaws while still loving them. One may argue it's precisely warts that sell such a book. And that's true to some extent. But reading this book may be most difficult for the Darin and Dee fans who are the most likely to read it in the first place. I'm in the first category, and this tarnished Bobby's shine for me - although perhaps I just have a more realistic view of him. I find it noble of Dodd that he is willing to write, say, that his father's brash arrogance was real, not just a press distortion. Or that his treatment of his birth family was shoddy and his financial provision for them, inexcusable. Or that said family really were such vulgarians as to make filial love difficult. Or that the Darin marriage may have sexually foundered because Sandra wasn't kinky enough to do threesomes or watch pornography with Bobby. This is not a hagiography. It took great courage and honesty of a son to write this candidly of his parents, while still wanting to build relationships with long-estranged relatives, and to regard affectionately the memories of those gone.
He explores the mystery of Bobby's parentage. Some thought Bobby resembled "brother-in-law" and actual stepfather Charlie Maffia, a New York sanitation worker who helped raise him and was devoted to him. (Bobby never paid him more than $150 a week as his valet, and Charlie would have done better to remain a garbageman and at least retire with a pension, sister Vee opines.) Others thought the circumstances suggested Bobby's dad was a married mobster. But Vee recounts seeing their mother, waiting outside a doctor's office, visibly stunned at the sight of a man she then tells Vee was a friend of Bobby's father. Vee concludes it was the father himself, and that Nina's story revealed to Bobby in the 1960s - that Dad was a medical student she had a brief fling with and never told of the pregnancy - was true.
Dodd is wounded by the darker view he develops of his grandmother Mary Douvan, whom he loved. Mary was a classic stage mother who wouldn't leave Sandra's side even when Sandra was grown. Dodd touches on, but doesn't seem to grasp, the key to Mary's character: Her great fear at being alone. To cure it, she attaches herself to Sandra by making herself indispensable. And the only time this seems not to be true is while she is married to Eugene Douvan, with whom she works; little Sandra works long days modeling and comes home to an empty hotel suite in the evening. Dodd never figures out how Mary could not know about her husband's abuse of Sandra between the ages of 5 and 11 (Douvan then died) and concludes she was in denial. Dodd doesn't give Mary enough credit for forging and protecting Sandra's career, for understanding the realities of public image that predated and precluded today's confessional-style handling of celebrities' failings; and for keeping Sandra alive as the latter sank into an alcoholic and anorexic reclusiveness. Mary supported her daughter and grandson by selling real estate following Sandra's career plummet. Is this enabling, or is this survival? (I found myself wondering if Eugene Douvan might have been the model for Humbert Humbert of "Lolita", written by Vladimir Nabokov, like Douvan an upper-class Russian émigré and about the same age. Douvan told people he married Mary to get Sandy, which is exactly what the fictional Humbert Humbert does.)
There is tragedy and redemption here. Bobby Darin, condemned to an early death, rocketing to heights, constantly changing shapes, crashing to earth, emerging from a midlife crisis, only to die, from an avoidable health downturn, before his second career could really take off. (And remember, with Sinatra, it was the second career that made him an icon. The first one just made him a bobby-soxer idol. Bobby Darin died at age 37. When Sinatra was 37, he hadn't won his comeback Oscar yet.) One can find redemption in Bobby Darin's story, at least: that he emerged from the wilderness a better person and reborn entertainer, one kinder to others, less egotistical, more socially conscious, and having crossed a generational gap that his older Vegas peers could not. Sandra Dee, meanwhile, is America's sweetheart. For years she ranks with Taylor and Hepburn at the box office. She is so perfectly beautiful that, one envious onlooker says, she looks better rolling out of bed without makeup than most women ever do at all. But she leads a life bizarre at its core. She has no friends, she can't dress herself, she only eats lettuce, she drinks and gambles compulsively. After her star wanes, she briefly rallies, going public with her problems around 1990, but can't sustain the comeback. The gap in her life - from teen idol to authentic adult - is one she never manages to cross. For her, there is only tragedy.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Dream Lovers
By Holly
Sandra Dee was a favorite of mine growing up. This book was eye-opening for me. I had no idea of the tragic events that had gone on in her life. She was an inspiring woman. Bobby Darin on the other hand sounded like a total jerk.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Good Read
By Cynthia McIntire
I haven't finished the book, but I am enjoying reading it. I always thought they were perfect for each other and I was so sorry that their lives were so sad.
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