I wrote it the last four years, and I wrote it because I needed to have contact with myself. Why did you want to write your memoir now? Just like her memoir, Lee Grant does not disappoint when it comes to candor in an interview with The Daily Beast. Her new memoir, I Said Yes to Everything, hits on-and these are just some highlights-her childhood as the daughter of a Jewish immigrant, fake rape stories, making Grace Kelly cry, and one hell of a makeout session with Warren Beatty. She would go on to have a career in directing, and one of the documentaries she directed, Down and Out in America, also won an Oscar. She won the award outright in 1975 for Shampoo. Grant, however, would be one of the few who would stage a successful comeback, going on to win an Emmy for the ’60s television series Peyton Place and then Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for The Landlord and Voyage of the Damned. Just as her career looked like it was going to take off, she found herself blacklisted for 12 years by the House Committee on Un-American Activities because of her marriage to screenwriter Arnold Manoff. She barreled onto the Broadway scene at the age of 23 in 1949 with Detective Story, and was nominated for an Oscar two years later when it was adapted into film. To say that actress Lee Grant has seen it all would be an understatement.
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