You Caught Me Kissing: A Love Story
By Dorothy Bridges

About the book
You Caught Me Kissing is an insider's look at the romantic saga of the legendary Hollywood couple Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges as told through the poignant vignettes by the couple's equally illustrious children, actors Jeff and Beau Bridges, and artist Lucinda Bridges. Filled with exclusive family photographs and laced throughout with Dorothy's heartfelt poems, this warm and tender book is a tribute to a life-long romance.

 
   About the Author
For more than fifty years, Dorothy Bridges, matriach of the famed acting family, wrote a love poem every Valentine's Day for her husband, film and television star Lloyd Bridges. After his death in 1999, she continued to write the poems each year.

 
   Click on one of these links to buy this book:

Barnes & Noble:

 
 
 Powell's

You Caught Me Kissing: A Love Story
Dorothy Bridges

 
   Read an excerpt
You Caught Me Kissing, so I might as well let you see what happens to a girl who admits that every aspect of love has directed her life and destin, from Puppy Love to grand Passion, to Family Fortress, to Man Overboard, and continuing with There Has To be Forever.

My tale is easy to tell because there just happened to be one man involved, Lloyd Bridges, and all my life I kept writing love poems.

Perhaps some of them tell your own love story
—Dorothy Bridges.

 
   Song of a CoEd
I know I should be studying
And writing a theme or two,
But how can I be studying,
And at the same time thinking of you?

I should be learning of outcrops,
Of deposits lain under the sea.
But the only "rock" I can think is the solitaire
That you might give to me.

I should be rehearsing my drama
And memorizing every cue.
The only speech I've memorized
Is the one I'll say to you.

I should be learning of nervous states
Or of functions of the brain.
The only psychological question I've asked
Is, "Can love drive one insane?"

There's a composition due in English
But I haven't found a theme.
The prof wouldn't like my one-track mind,
Or the title, "Love's Young Dream."

I should be studying the Renaissance
In the History of British Lit.
But instead I'm reviewing my love for you
And remembering the history of it.

Oh, I know I should be studying
And writing a theme or two.
But how can I be studying
And at the same time thinking of you?

So now I'll give up studying
And use this hour of mine
To start a life-long love poem
With this first Valentine.

© 2005 by Dorothy Bridges.