As an actor, Karl Malden has won both an Oscar and an Emmy in a career that has spanned over fifty years. In this witty, frank, graceful memoir, filled with unforgettable anecdotes of the stage and screen, he writes with uncomplicated directness, insight, and humor of his life as an actor and of the people he worked with in plays like All My Sons and A Streetcar named Desire, and films such as On the Waterfront, Baby Doll, One-Eyed Jacks, I Confess, Gypsy, Paton, and Nuts.