Film tale Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens, his wife of nearly sixty-three years, look back on an eternity filled with theatre both on / off the display screen. Sharing priceless correspondence with each other as well as the celebrities and world market leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne can be a candid portrayal from the pleasures and pitfalls of a Hollywood life lived in the public eye.

Compiled from Anne’s private archive of words and photographs, that is an intimate glimpse in to the Douglases’ on the subject of Kirk and Anne: Letters of Appreciate, Laughter, and an eternity in Hollywood courtship and marriage arranged against the setting of Kirk’s display triumphs, like the Vikings, Lust For Life, Paths of Glory, and Spartacus. The words themselves, as well as Kirk and Anne’s vibrant descriptions of their experiences, reveal remarkable insight and anecdotes about the legendary figures they knew so well, including Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, the Kennedys, and the Reagans. Filled up with photos from film pieces, private moments, and public occasions, Kirk and Anne details the adventurous, oftentimes comic, and poignant fact behind the glamour of a Hollywood life-as a couple of sixty-two years (and counting) could tell it.