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Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Contains photographs and profiles that examine the lives and careers of fifty actresses of the studio era who empowered women, each with an annotated list of films, style notes, behind-the-scene facts, trivia, and a list of awards and nominations.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Company, Inc
Pub. Date
©1988.
Language
English
Description
"Jane Powell appeared in only nineteen movies, yet she is one of the best-known and most affectionately remembered actresses from the golden era of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals. [This book] is a vivid and compelling account of her life. As a small child she had a startlingly beautiful voice, and began performing at the age of two. She was encouraged and supported by her hardworking parents, who made many sacrifices to provide her with dancing, singing,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
This biography presents a portrait of Lee Marvin warts and all. A very charismatic, seemingly outgoing and yet private man, Marvin was a decorated soldier, who enlisted at 18 in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, and served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His service left its mark on him, but on film he was a man's man, playing hoods, bank robbers, assassins, and a long run of soldiers. But some of his...
Author
Publisher
Donald I. Fine, Inc
Pub. Date
©1990.
Language
English
Description
This superior portrait of movie star Mary Pickford will absorb readers in the life and times of a woman who was at least 50 years ahead of her time. Pickford was born Gladys Smith in 1893 in Canada; she began her acting career as a child to support her widowed mother, sister and brother. The impoverished family moved to New York City, where theatrical impresario David Belasco gave the curly-haired girl the name that became world renowned. Playing...
Author
Publisher
Prentice Hall Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Clark Gable, who began his career as a bit player, never forgot those years of struggling. After he became "The King of Hollywood" he preferred the company of the "little people" as he called them--the extras, supporting players, directors, writers, photographers, and technicians who knew him best. These old-timers reminisced about Gable's marriages, romances, flings and affairs--the broken hearts, frustrations, and indiscretions--and how he tried...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Known for his striking looks, Tyrone Power was a matinée idol in the 1930s and early 1940s, a descendant of a long Irish theatrical line going back to his great-grandfather. Starring in films in a variety of genres, from drama to light comedy, he was also a stage actor, receiving accolades for "John Brown's Body" and "Mister Roberts". He died from a heart attack at the age of 44. This biography develops a clear picture of the studio contract system--claustrophobic...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
This is a sympathetic, never invasive biography of the private lives and careers of the Newmans. While maintaining a consistently interesting and entertaining dual biography, Morella and Epstein decide not to print one speck of dirt about prickly Paul and loyal Joanne in their nearly 30-year marriage. The Newmans spend much time separated by their projects but the worst that comes to light regarding their private lives are verbal battles; Paul's giving...
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