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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" and "Down and Dirty Pictures," writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Traces the final two years of the iconic star's life, offering insight into the true nature of her relationship with JFK, her actual paternity, her brutal incarceration at a mental asylum, and her sexual exploitation by mobsters.
87) Audrey Hepburn
Author
Publisher
Alba
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"El tercer título de una colección de cuentos con los que niñas y niños descubrirán quiénes eran y qué lograron las más grandes mujeres de la historia contemporánea. Diseñadoras, pintoras, aventureras, científicas... Mujeres únicas y maravillosas de las que aprender y con las que identificarse. Mujeres que Audrey, convirtieron un pequeño sueño en una grande historia." -- Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In an exquisitely written memoir, Mia Farrow introduces us to the landscapes of her extraordinary life. Moving from her earliest memories of the walled gardens and rocky shores of Western Ireland and her Hollywood childhood to her career as an actress, she writes of these experiences and her struggle to protect her children in a painful custody battle with Woody Allen. It was the crisis that led her to reflect upon the incidents that had brought her...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory biography of the enduringly popular John Wayne that draws on more than 100 interviews as well as exclusive access to the files of Wayne's film production company to answer the question why he became and remains an iconic American figure"--
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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"A biography of Chinese American film star Anna May Wong who, in spite of limited opportunities, achieved her dream of becoming an actress and worked to represent her race on screen in a truthful, positive manner"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America as a teenaged acrobat to find fame and fortune, but he was always haunted by his past. His father was a feckless alcoholic, and his mother was committed to an asylum when Archie was eleven years old. He believed her to be dead until he was informed she was alive when he was thirty-one years old. Because of this experience Grant would have difficulty forming close attachments throughout his life. He...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Actor and comedian Kevin Hart grew up in North Philadelphia. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was overwhelmingly strict, beating him with belts, frying pans, and his own toys. In his literary debut, he takes the reader on a journey through what his life was, what it is today, and how he's overcome each challenge to become the man he is today. Hart sees life as a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of Charlie Chaplin's years of self-imposed exile from the United States, when he had become a pariah during the 1950s Red Scare. While living abroad he made his last, and by general agreement, worst films, only to return home years later to a triumphant reception"--
In the aftermath of World War Two, Charlie Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The inspirational and true rags-to-riches story of how one young boy made it from the war-torn Congolese jungles to America and onto the silver screen, all the while facing extraordinary trials and twists of fate with an unwavering faith and unflagging spirit"--
100) Swimming to Cambodia
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The author spent eight weeks in Southeast Asia creating the role of the Ambassador's aide for the Academy Award-winning film, "The Killing Fields." Inspired by his experiences there, he weaves a hilarious and hypnotic saga of the making of the epic war film.
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