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From Small-Town Girl to Hollywood Star--
A Reclusive Celebrity Finally Tells Her Secrets
Everyone remembers Alana Paige. Thousands of fans will tell you that she should have won the Oscar for best actress, the one that went to Elizabeth Taylor instead.
Born Billie Jo Payner, Alana grew up in a working-class household in Midland, Texas. Few of her fans know that hers was a troubled childhood in a dysfunctional family. With parents that didn't get along, a sister with an abusive husband, and a stepfather who tried to molest her, it's no wonder Billie yearned to escape from West Texas to a more beautiful life.
Like so many of us, Alana escaped into the movies, living her dreams on the silver screen. Like so few of us, her dreams came true when Hollywood made her a star. Why, then, did Alana Paige so abruptly disappear? Why did a woman with so much glamour and fame, so much talent and warmth, decide to desert the spotlight?
Finally, and for no apparent reason, Alana Paige has consented to an interview--something her fans have always wanted, but that she has never before been willing to give. Told mostly in the first person, as taped by her interviewer, Alana tells the story of Billy Jo Payner's rise to fame, and the secrets--both glamorous and dark--that kept her silent and reclusive all these years.
Well written and highly readable, Alana is a fictional autobiography that travels from the heartland to Hollywood, from the 1940s through the mid-1990s, told by a star whom everyone adored and no one really knew.
Nancy Ferguson is an avid SCUBA diver and underwater photographer. her SCUBA adventure novel, Black Coral (1985), was published by the Berkeley Publishing Group. She lives and writes in Ventura, California. |
