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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominant man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust, so they battle their emotions and each other, leading to a powerful and explosive climax.
3) Little women
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Louisa May Alcott's Civil War story of four sisters who share their loves, their joys, and their sorrows.
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English
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"No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and she is a legend known for her beauty and her magnetic screen presence in a career that spanned most of the twentieth century and nearly sixty films. But her private life was even more compelling than her Oscar-winning on-screen performances. During her seventy-nine years of rapid-fire love and...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Lord takes a probing look at the life and career of Elizabeth Taylor, whose numerous film roles were branded as startlingly feminist, from her breakout role in "National Velvet" to her Oscar-winning performance in "Butterfield 8."
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Publisher
Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus Editions Ltd, an Hachette UK company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen years in the writing, Erotic vagrancy doesn't only surpass every other biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton yet to appear, this rich, vital and passionately articulated book, which is as extravagant and wayward as its two subjects, is also about celebrity, creativity, being flawed, being brilliant, sexuality, the intermingling of a low and a highbrow existence, pride, insecurity, attraction and repulsion, and devilry. We see...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"From its debut in 1962, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild success and a cultural lightning rod. The play transpires over one long, boozy night, laying bare the lies, compromises, and scalding love that have sustained a middle-aged couple through decades of marriage. It scandalized critics but magnetized audiences. Across 644 sold-out Broadway performances, the drama demolished the wall between what could and couldn’t...
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