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Charmed Lives: A Family Romance by Michael Korda is a 1979 biographical book published by Random House. It details the glamorous and dramatic lives of the Korda film dynasty, focusing heavily on his uncle, film tycoon Alexander Korda.

Alexander Korda lived a life other men only dreamed about. The rich, the famous, the beautiful, crowded its pages as if playing roles in one of his own lavish films. Churchill ( who secretly wrote film scripts for him), H.G. Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Brendan Brendan Bracken, were among his lifelong friends; Olivier, Laughton, Ralph Richardson, Dietrich, Vivien Leigh, Merle Oberon (whom he married) among those he brought to stardom.