Jeanne Cooper, the Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for her portrayal of Katherine Chancellor on the daytime soap opera , recounts the steps and missteps of her eight-decade career in . Exploring a career that began with the birth of a phenomenon called television, Coopers life story co-stars a cast of characters that reads like a whos-who of Hollywoods Golden Age: Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, and Shelley Winters, to name just a few. Intimate, honest, and inspiring, is a fascinating memoir of a life in daytime dramaand proof positive that that growing older doesnt have to mean giving up.