Having recently visited the late David Niven´s Cote d´Azur mansion, Pa ordered a copy of the Man´s autobiography - The Moon´s a Balloon, from the local library. Released in 1971 it has sold more than 5 million copies.It is a very frank and honest account of his life. He openly shares his somewhat blessed life with great candidness, including his love affair from the age of fourteen with a London prostitute, his expulsion from school for sending the school nurse a decorative parcel of shit, and his house-sharing experience with Clark Gable, where months were spent smoking and eating marijuana with plenty of shagging – even with that pencil moustache!
Niven seems to always land on his feet and almost stumbles into his acting career after serving in the army and working as a liquor seller in New York and continually hob-nobs with the rich, famous and influential. No doubt about it – Mr. Niven you were a very lucky bastard.
Niven´s pink mansion just outside Monte Carlo
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