As unbelievable as it may sound, the Prince Charming of my title saved his father's life from Mafia hit men while still in his mother's womb, grew up in an orphanage and ran away to join the Navy. He hitchhiked to Hollywood and became the actor whose body movements were used for the Prince in Cinderella. He was in a number of movies and TV shows, including playing D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers TV series. He married the French movie star Corinne Calvet and traveled through Europe and North Africa. After that divorce (he married four more times), he moved to S.E. Asia where he went on elephant safaris and visited the ex-headhunting tribes of Borneo. He opened the first ice cream factory in Borneo, the first steak house in Singapore, and antique shops in Malaysia where he met the rich and famous. He lost his only child to a drug overdose; lost everything after 9/11 and then took that step into the darkness but was saved and, picking up the pieces with the help of loved ones and perfect strangers, found redemption and salvation, along with the courage to begin his life again. Walt Disney's Cinderella made Prince Charming a household name and every woman's fantasy. My career in show business; my travels and adventures throughout the world, especially the Far East and S.E. Asia, make my book a perfect companion for the frequent flyer and the armchair traveler. The book indeed has wide appeal; since it spans so many years of my life it should attract readers in every age group, from the young, to the mature, and even the elderly.
About the Author: Jeffrey Stone Jeffrey Stone was born on 16 December 1926 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He spent 14 years in the film industry in Hollywood, Italy and Spain. The start to his career came as the model for Prince Charming in Disney's Cinderella. He went on to play D'Artangan in the TV series Three Musketeers and appeared in numerous movies and guest appearances on TV and was under contract to Universal Studios, Leonard Goldstein (20th Century Fox Independent) and David Zelsnik Studios. He also wrote for the commercial film industry and wrote the story for Unearthly Stranger - now a cult film. He went to Hong Kong in 1961 and wrote and directed Strange Portrait, starring the late Jeff Hunter, co-starring Mai Tai Sing from the Hong Kong TV series and Barbara Lee from Flower Drum Song. He traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, the Far East and the Island of Tahiti. Stone has traveled to India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia. Mr. Stone opened and operated The Tai Pan Jade House antique shop in the famous Rasa Sayang Hotel for over 33 years with a clientele which included the King of Bahrain, Presidents and the rich and famous. He now lives and writes in Penang, Malaysia for the past 40 years, where he continues to write screenplays and adventure novels using Southeast Asia as background.