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If This Was Happiness
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The story of the legendary "Love Goddess" whose smoldering image hid a tragic secret, whose marriages and affairs with the world's most glamorous men ended in loneliness, and whose fame dissolved in the fog of a devastating illness. 24 pages of photos.
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Marilyn Monroe
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This addition to the abundant library of Monroe biographies is a serious account of the human being behind the glamourous façade, with unique information culled from primary sources. The author has also written such celebrity biographies as "Katherine Hepburn" and "Orson Welles". A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
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This biography of Jackie Kennedy examines her role in advancing her husband's career and in shaping the world's view of him as a man of social graces and as a statesman who was to be taken seriously. She subtly yet skillfully helped create an aura of charm around the Kennedys, and as First Lady she beguiled the media and the nation. Biographer ...
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Bette Davis: A Biography
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Drawn largely from conversations with her friends, lovers, fellow actors, and family members, here is the full story of cinematic legend Bette Davis (1908-1989).
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Katharine Hepburn
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Based on letters by Hepburn, her friends and family, as well as on interviews with Katharine Hepburn herself, this biography is a compelling saga, a love story, and a family story that brings alive three generations of fearless women.
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Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman
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From the author of the critically acclaimed "Orson Welles" and the "New York Times" bestseller "Katharine Hepburn" comes the enthralling, previously untold story of the friendships and forces that shaped the Kennedy presidency.
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Mrs Kennedy
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In MRS KENNEDY, Barbara Leaming concentrates on the three White House years of Jackie Kennedy, wife of President John F Kennedy. At his election she was relatively unknown. By the time of his assassination in November 1963 she had redecorated the dowdy Presidential mansion which hadn't been refurbished since Eleanor Roosevelt first took up ...
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Orson Welles: 2a Biography
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Polanski, the Filmmaker as Voyeur: A Biography
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If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
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Following her biographies of Orson Welles and Roman Polanski, the author offers an account of the life and film career of the "Love Goddess" whose smouldering image hid a tragic secret which fame and love affairs with glamorous men could do nothing to heal. "If this was happiness", said Orson Welles, "imagine what the rest of her life had been!" ...
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Jack Kennedy: the Making of a President
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Barbara Leaming's groundbreaking biography of the most charismatic of all twentieth-century American presidents reveals Britain's profound, lifelong impact on John F. Kennedy. In British history, literature and values, the young Jack Kennedy discovered an image of the man he wanted to be, and he spent much of his life struggling to become that ...
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Polanski a Biography "the Filmmaker as Voyeur":
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Bette Davis
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Bette Davis was one of the greatest acting talents the screen has ever known. She was also one who aroused controversy: her legal battles with Warner Brothers; her four husbands; the shocking book written by her daughter. In this fascinating, in-depth biography Barbara Leaming has had numerous conversations with those closest to Bette Davis - her ...
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Jack Kennedy: the Making of a President
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This groundbreaking biography of the most charismatic of all 20th-century American presidents reveals the profound, lifelong impact on John F. Kennedy of British history, literature and values. Drawing on extensive new and astonishingly intimate primary materials and original interviews, Leaming has uncovered the dramatic line that runs through ...
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Orson Welles: A Biography
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Here is a first-hand portrait of the flamboyant American genius who became a titanic figure in twentieth century popular culture. Orson Welles revolutionised theatre, terrified a nation of radio listeners, and made cinematic history with Citizen Kane, regarded by many as the greatest American film ever made.
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Grigori Kozintsev
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Orson Welles
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Based on two years of in-depth, uninhibited interviews with Welles before his death, this book examines the actor's entire life from his work in film to his torrid relationships with Rita Hayworth, Delores Del Rio, and others. 16 pages of photos.
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Wizard's First Rule
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As Richard Cypher is slowly picking up the pieces following his father's murder, he meets a woman in need of help. This seemingly chance meeting sets into motion a chain of events that threaten not only the kingdom, but the world itself--not to mention Richard's own destiny.
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Rita Hayworth
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Polanski : his life and films.
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Si Aquello Fue Felicidad
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