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Author | : Joan Craig |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-05-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476622876 |
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As movie patrons sat in darkened theaters in January 1914, they were mesmerized by an alluring temptress with long sable hair and kohl-rimmed eyes. Theda Bara--"the vamp," as she would come to be known--would soon be one of the highest paid film stars of the 1910s, earning an unheard of $4,000 per week, before retiring from the screen in 1926. In 1946, at age five, the author met Bara--then 61--at her Beverly Hills home and the actress became her mentor. This memoir is the story of their friendship.
Author | : Roy Liebman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2023-08-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476687250 |
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Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara--known as "The Vamp"--was largely neglected until the 1990s, when her fame began to resurface. Since then, there have been biographies, documentaries and other works that have brought the silent film actress back into the spotlight, including a painstaking stills reconstruction of her lost epic Cleopatra. This is a complete examination of Bara's more than 40 films, as well as her theater and radio appearances, down to the smallest detail. With the vast majority of Bara's films considered lost, it is a particularly valuable resource for fans and scholars, and includes information about each film's genesis, director, plot, censorship problems, and critical and public reactions. Also included is a biographical overview, with many illuminating anecdotes.
Author | : Charlie Chaplin |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2022-06-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
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'My Wonderful Visit' by Charlie Chaplin is a travelogue, a memoir, travel book full of anecdotes. The author went on a vacation to England, France, New York, and Germany after WWI. Chaplin wanted to get away from the Hollywood celebrity life for a few months and described the countries he visited and people he met in the dark days following the end of the war.
Author | : Eve Golden |
Publisher | : Vestal Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1998-05-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1461730775 |
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Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we are ever likely to get to meeting the screen's great Vamp!
Author | : Michael G. Ankerich |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2013-01-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813136911 |
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Mae Murray (1885--1965), popularly known as "the girl with the bee-stung lips," was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to stardom as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies, moving across the country to star in her first film, To Have and to Hold, in 1916. An instant hit with audiences, Murray soon became one of the most famous names in Tinseltown. However, Murray's moment in the spotlight was fleeting. The introduction of talkies, a string of failed marriages, a serious career blunder, and a number of bitter legal battles left the former star in a state of poverty and mental instability that she would never overcome. In this intriguing biography, Michael G. Ankerich traces Murray's career from the footlights of Broadway to the klieg lights of Hollywood, recounting her impressive body of work on the stage and screen and charting her rapid ascent to fame and decline into obscurity. Featuring exclusive interviews with Murray's only son, Daniel, and with actor George Hamilton, whom the actress closely befriended at the end of her life, Ankerich restores this important figure in early film to the limelight.
Author | : Elizabeth Winder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250064961 |
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"Takes a look at Marilyn Monroe's happy time in the Big Apple, during which she took classes with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, befriended the greatest actors and writers of her day and broke her contract with Fox Studios to form her own production company, a groundbreaking move that revolutionized the entertainment industry, "--NoveList.
Author | : Andrew Gross |
Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2016-08-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466892188 |
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“As moving as it is gripping. A winner on all fronts.”—Booklist (starred review) “Heart-pounding...This is Gross’s best work yet, with his heart and soul imprinted on every page.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work burned before his eyes. To the guards, he is just another prisoner, but in fact Mendl—a renowned physicist—holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. And the other is already at work for the Nazi war machine. Four thousand miles away, in Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Krakow ghetto as a teenager after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan longs to do more for his new country in the war. But never did he expect the proposal he receives from “Wild” Bill Donovan, head of the OSS: to sneak into the most guarded place on earth, a living hell, on a mission to find and escape with one man, the one man the Allies believe can ensure them victory in the war. Bursting with compelling characters and tense story lines, this historical thriller from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely new and compelling.
Author | : Walter Dean Myers |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545576598 |
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Walter Dean Myers brilliantly renders the realities of World War II. Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way to an uncertain future. Their whole lives are ahead of them, yet at the same time, death's whisper is everywhere. One white, one black, these young men have nothing in common and everything in common as they approach an experience that will change them forever. It's May 1944. World War II is ramping up, and so are these young recruits, ready and eager. In small towns and big cities all over the globe, people are filled with fear. When Josiah and Marcus come together in what will be the greatest test of their lives, they learn hard lessons about race, friendship, and what it really means to fight. Set on the front lines of the Normandy invasion, this novel, rendered with heart-in-the-throat precision, is a cinematic masterpiece. Here we see the bold terror of war, and also the nuanced havoc that affects a young person's psyche while living in a barrack, not knowing if today he will end up dead or alive.
Author | : Henry Miller |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780811201087 |
Download The Books in My Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
Author | : Barbara Sher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780345311009 |
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