From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary
Robert Clary. Madison Books, $26.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-1-56833-228-4
Although best known to TV viewers as LeBeau on TV's Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971), Robert Clary has written a new memoir, From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary, offering a much more sobering view of WWII, as he recounts his 31 months in German concentration camps as a Jewish Parisian teenager. After liberation, he began singing in nightclubs and, as a prot g of Eddie Cantor, won a position in the revue New Faces of 1952, which also featured newcomers Eartha Kitt, Paul Lynde and fledgling writer Mel Brooks. Decades later, his popularity among daytime viewers as a regular on soaps The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives helped promote his recording career. Although flatly written at times, Clary's tale of survival is inspirational. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 11/01/2001
Genre: Nonfiction
Open Ebook - 224 pages - 978-1-4616-6193-1
Paperback - 248 pages - 978-1-58979-345-3