Charlotte Chandler
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Language
English
Description
She was beautiful, talented, irascible, ruthless, vulnerable, and a true Hollywood legend. From abused child to dance-hall entertainer to silent-film actress, she went on to become one of Hollywood's screen goddesses with films such as Possessed opposite Clark Gable, with whom she began a torrid off-screen affair, Grand Hotel, and Mildred Pierce, her Academy Award-winning film. Joan Crawford succeeded and survived through sheer determination, talent,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Marlene Dietrich began her career in her native Berlin as a model, then as a stage and screen actress during the silent era, and became a star with the international success "The Blue Angel." Then, under the watchful eye of director and mentor Josef von Sternberg, she became one of the brightest stars in Hollywood. Charlotte Chandler, who spoke with Dietrich in her Paris apartment in the mid-1970s, relies extensively on the star's own words to reveal...
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
“North by Northwest”. “Psycho”. “Rear Window”. “The Birds”. “Vertigo”. When it comes to murder and mayhem, shock and suspense, the films of Alfred Hitchcock cannot be surpassed. For this book, Charlotte Chandler interviewed Hitchcock, his wife, daughter, film crew members, and many of the stars who appeared in his films, including Kim Novak, Janet Leigh, Cary Grant, Tippi Hedren and James Stewart. Throughout the book, Chandler...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Draws on final-decade interviews to reveal the public and private lives of the iconic Hollywood actress, in a portrait that discusses her four marriages and her feelings about her daughter's uncomplimentary account of their relationship.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Draws on final-decade interviews to reveal the public and private lives of the iconic Hollywood actress, in a portrait that discusses her four marriages and her feelings about her daughter's uncomplimentary account of their relationship.