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Pieces of My Heart: A Life by Robert J. Wagner List Price: $15.99 Price: $10.87 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. You Save: $5.12 (32%)

Robert J. Wagner opens his heart to share the romances, the drama, and the humor of an incredible life.

When he was a young boy growing up in Bel Air next door to a golf course, Robert Wagner saw Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Randolph Scott, and Cary Grant playing golf together one morning—and it fueled his dream of becoming a movie star.

In Pieces of My Heart, Wagner offers a candid and deeply personal look at his life and career—his rise to stardom in the studiodominated Hollywood era of the 1950s; his relationship with mentors like Spencer Tracy and David Niven, and with friends like Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis; his decline and his resurrection. And he speaks from the heart of the women he loved: Barbara Stanwyck, a glamorous star twice his age; Marion Marshall, Jill St. John . . . and Natalie Wood. For the very first time he chronicles in great depth their extraordinary romance and bares his pain as he openly recounts its tragic end.

With color photographs and fascinating never-before-told tales and anecdotes, Pieces of My Heart is the heartfelt, remarkably revealing, and quintessentially American story of one of the great sons of Hollywood.

Customer Reviews:
Middling Memoir	Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
Robert J. Wagner's "Pieces of My Heart" was a mildly amusing memoir. He spends much space rationalizing his mediocre film career, blaming bad roles on circumstances, not his lack of acting skills or training. Don't expect any great revelations about his marriage to Natalie Wood-and the explanation of their last days/nights on the "Splendour" leaves many questions unanswered, doesn't ring true, somehow...if you're looking for intense soul-searching, you won't find it here, but anecdotes about Hollywood legends he's known are interesting, and his love for his children is touchingly apparent.
What A Man!!	Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
I enjoyed this biography of Robert Wagner's life immensely & recommend it highly. He has led quite a life & known so very many famous people. There is quite abit about Natalie in here as well, which was another reason I wanted to read the book. I didn't realize that his first love was the late great Barbara Stanwyck. He writes from his heart & it's easily coherent to see that Natalie was the major love of his life. The book comes with alot of glorious photos from his early days through his recent ones. What a handsome man he was and is! He was already 41 by the time I knew him from "It Takes A Thief" (loved that show) & it was enthralling to see for the first time, pictures of him as a very young man. It's no wonder he made it into show business! The book will show you that he has lived his life with dignity & grace, yet offers a couple things that will show his very human side as well. He has been a wonderful father to his own 2 daughters, and thinks of Natalie's daughter Natasha as his own. I don't know what those girls would have did without him after Natalie's tragic accidental drowning in 1981. He was a heartbroken man after that, but his strength & courage & with the help & love of his daughters & Jill St. John, he managed to rebuild his life & go on. He writes with passion and a great sense of humor as well. I was pleasantly surprised to find that he is a huge animal lover & I loved his passage about how his animals are not "put down" without him being there with them. Something I live by also. I ended the book thinking what a classy, kind & wonderful man he is that has done so much with a life. I do think Natalie's name deserved to be in the dedication as she very much was "one of the women in his life".
what a life...	Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent book and an amazing life. You probably wouldn't believe it if you saw it in a movie..
Good Read!	Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
I listened to the audiobook version of Robert Wagner's autobiography. Mr. Wagner reads his own autobiography for the audiobook, and to me, that made it all the more special. Robert Wagner has always been one of those actors that I am facinated by. He is very handsome, charismatic, and a total class act. When I recently saw him on a television talkshow discussing his new autobiography, I knew I had to get it. I was not disappointed. Mr. Wagner not only talks about his own facinating life and career, but he also talks about the numerous Hollywood talents he has known. It is fascinating to experience the people and places of the movie business through his eyes. The book is very enjoyable and I highly recommend it.
This Man can't Fool us Anymore.	Customer Rating: 1 out of 5
Well from a literary standpoint this book is just marvey...from the standpoint that it has any value as truthful is another thing altogether. He hyped this thing as a way to explain how Natalie died, but when it came to that part of the book all he did was lie to us again and again. I'd be interested in knowing why he told us that Natalie was trying to secure a banging dingy, she'd never in her life done it before that night so why, in the midst of an all out scream fest with RJ, would she even think of such a nonsensical thing to do? Bottom Line; she didn't. Wagner made that up. Secondly, why didn't RJ, after realizing that "she was missing" call the Coast Guard? He claims he called immediately yet the official record states that they didn't get that call till 4 a.m. and there are scores of witnesses that can and did attest that no such immediate professional search took place prior to that time. That's a 4 hour lapse. FOUR HOURS! I guess that's about how long it takes to get your story straight for the authorities. Maybe he wont get caught, well so far so good. Then there's the smashing of the wine bottle against the coffee table in the main parlor, he does admit that this happened, but he's denied it for the 27 years prior to this book. He gladly let the world (including the cops) believe that high seas were to blame for the shattered glass, a theory put forth by the investigating officer at the scene, a theory that had no basis in fact as there were no high seas in the isthmus that night..another easily verifiable and attested to fact. He didn't exactly explain either why he didn't allow the skipper, Dennis Davern, to flip on the search light and look for Natalie as soon as RJ informed him that Natalie was missing from the Splendour. It's the skippers job to make sure his passengers are all aboard and accounted for regardless of who owns the vessel. Dennis Davern didn't do the right thing that night either. Fans of Wagner and the Hollywood privileged and apparently the media will devour this book at its face value while a polygraphed version of this same tragedy by Dennis Davern in Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour goes slighted by the media. That's an ever shrinking fan base though I'm afraid, the world, by virtue of the internet and a collective public fed up with celebrities getting away with murder have shrunken the once enormous and all too easy to hide-in world of insider Hollywood power mongers. These people are now, for the first time in history having to answer real questions put forth by real people who have to abide by the same set of laws as everyone else, even Robert Wagner. Creed.