Actress Lillian Roth’s memoir recounts her life in radio, vaudeville, and cinema in the 1920s and 1930s. Decades ago, much had been written about her time as a celebrity. But, the true narrative in her memoir is about her battle with alcoholism and the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous with its twelve-step recovery concepts. Roth grew up with a typical stage mother and their grandiose demands. She recounts her sexual abuse as a child actress when she was six years old. As an adult, she, like her father, was an alcoholic. After her fiancé’s death, she rushed into marriage and drank even more to keep herself distracted. Roth married and divorced four different men in all.   She was in two physically violent relationships, one of which resulted in a broken jaw. Her wired jaw made headlines. According to Ben Hecht, who assisted Marilyn Monroe with her autobiography, she once said, “In Hollywood, a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do…Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.”  Described as 'gut-wrenching...difficult to read at times but worth the effort.'