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  • Aline MacMahon

    Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting

    Serie serien Screen Classics
    American actress Aline MacMahon's youth was spent honing her talents while performing at local events in New York City. After popular stage success on Broadway, she headlined a touring company in Los Angeles, where she was discovered by legendary Hollywood director Mervyn LeRoy and put under contract to Warner Brothers.During the 1930s and 1940s, MacMahon starred in countless films and was among ... Les mer

    370,50 kr

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  • Paris Without End

    The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife

    "A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel." — VogueHadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their ... Les mer

    89,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Bennetts

    An Acting Family

    av Brian Kellow ...
    "An engrossing new page turner" about one of old Hollywood's royal families: "theater people don't get more interesting, and it's a true tale well told" ( Hollywood Reporter).In the early 1930s, Constance Bennett was the highest paid star in Hollywood, famous for dramatic roles before reinventing herself in the classic comedy Topper, starring opposite Cary Grant. Her sister Joan played the femme ... Les mer

    92,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Tramp

    The Life of Charlie Chaplin

    av Joyce Milton ...
    Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world's first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than ... Les mer

    78,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression

    Shirley Temple and 1930s America

    "[An] elucidating cultural history of Hollywood’s most popular child star…a must-read." —Bill Desowitz, USA TodayFor four consecutive years she was the world’s box-office champion. With her image appearing in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily, she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless ... Les mer

    140,33 kr

  • Pauline Kael

    A Life in the Dark

    av Brian Kellow ...
    **“A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential movie critics.”—Los Angeles Times“Engrossing and thoroughly researched.”—Entertainment Weekly• A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2011 •The first major biography of the most influential, powerful, and controversial film critic of the twentieth century**Pauline Kael was, ... Les mer

    102,07 kr

  • Sometimes You Have to Lie

    The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

    av Leslie Brody ...
    In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines.Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing -- very much like the woman who created ... Les mer

    138,94 kr

  • Goldwyn

    A Biography

    av A. Scott Berg ...
    The legacy of silver screen tycoon Samuel Goldwyn comes to vivid life in this acclaimed biography from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Wilson, Lindbergh, and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius.He was the premier dream-maker of his era—a fierce independent force in a time when studios ruled. He was a producer of silver-screen sagas who may have been, in the words of Harper's ... Les mer

    161,79 kr

  • One Matchless Time

    A Life of William Faulkner

    av Jay Parini ...
    “Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It’s an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” — Houston Chronicle“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling.” — Seattle TimesWilliam Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most ... Les mer

    115,04 kr

  • Mary Pickford

    Queen of the Movies

    "Explains Pickford's roles as not only a talented actress, but also as a philanthropist and industry leader who managed to end up her own producer." — Time OutIn the early days of cinema, when actors were unbilled and unmentioned in credits, audiences immediately noticed Mary Pickford. Moviegoers everywhere were riveted by her magnetic talent and appeal as she rose to become cinema's first great ... Les mer

    92,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Thornton Wilder

    A Life

    The definitive biography of the great American playwright: a "fine-grained, sympathetic portrait" with a foreword by Edward Albee ( The New York Times).Thornton Wilder—three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North—was much more than a pivotal figure in twentieth ... Les mer

    89,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Elia Kazan

    A Biography

    "No mere page-turner, this is a page-devourer, generating the kind of suspense that is usually the province of the playwright or novelist." — The New York Times Book ReviewFew figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important and ... Les mer

    78,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus