One of the most amusing, outspoken, zany, revealing and warm-hearted autobiographies ever to be published. David Niven - humorist, actor, and gentleman extraordinary - had one of the most varied lives and most spectacular film careers of our time. Expelled from school and baptised by the army, his early years held the key to his triumphant future, his charm, wit and daredevilry. Here he tells all: his wartime service and his return to America; the ghastly tragedy of his first wife's death; the day he was fired by Goldwyn and the night he won a Hollywood Oscar.