New memoir out now — Secrets Are Out Now

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The first memoir · 2003

Someone Please Love Me

A True Story of a Dancer from the Movie Porky's. The earlier, tighter telling of the performing years.

2003
A true story Someone Please Love Me A true story of a dancer Crystal Gellata

Where it started

The first time she said any of it out loud

Published in 2003, this is the book that broke the silence. It covers the performing years — the dancing that began around the age of thirty, the touring, the film work including Porky's, and the marriages that ran alongside all of it.

It is a shorter, harder book than the one that followed. Where Secrets Are Out Now takes eighty-three years and lays them end to end, this one stays with the stage, and with the question its title asks outright.

Publication details

The 2003 edition

Full title
Someone Please Love Me: A True Story of a Dancer from the Movie Porky's
Author
Crystal Gellata
Published
12 September 2003
ISBN-13
978-1-4107-8624-1
Format
Paperback
Language
English

Long out of print in some territories — used copies surface regularly through second-hand booksellers.

Dancers rehearsing on a darkened stage, photographed in black and white

I learned to dance at thirty because standing still had stopped working.

On the performing years

Out now

The secrets are out. You may as well read them.

Published 13 May 2026 by Brookscraft Publishing. ISBN 978-1-9696-8262-9.