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Series
Publisher
Image/Madacy Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Where did Anthony 'Zorba the Greek' Quinn actually grow up? What happened to Shirley Temple after the 'Good Ship Lollipop' of child superstardom sailed? Was Grace Kelly always destined to be a princess? You'll find the answers to these and many other questions in this collection!"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Jane Fonda has been in the public eye since birth; just being Henry's daughter qualified her for celebrity status. However, her intelligence and talent compelled her to reach beyond this birthright to become an individual of extraordinary and diverse accomplishments.
It would take a restless camera to document Jane Fonda's life for she is a woman of formidable energy, but Fred Lawrence Guiles' expert commentary captures her in motion. We pursue her...
Author
Publisher
Stein and Day
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Stan, surprisingly, is the first full-length biography of the legendary comic who was the creative half of the universally loved duo, Laurel and Hardy. Based upon scores of interviews with family and friends (including the intimate diaries of Virginia Ruth Laurel, whom Stan married three times) and enhanced by a magnificent collection of previously unpublished photographs, Stan tells the very human story of Laurel's struggle to survive against difficult...
6) Baby face
Series
Forbidden Hollywood collection ; 1, disc 2
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
It's the age-old story of the girl so mistreated by men that she's determined to get revenge. Lilly (Baby Face) sleeps her way from basement speakeasy bartender, literally floor by floor, to the top floor of a New York office building. Bank submanager Jimmy McCoy finds her a job in the bank only to be cast aside as she hooks up with the bank's president.
7) The divorcee
Series
Forbidden Hollywood collection ; 2, disc 1
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The divorcee: a socialite discovers her husband has been unfaithful. In her despair, she sleeps with his best friend, and then confesses, expecting her husband to forgive her. A free soul: a lawyer saves a gambler from a murder rap, but makes the mistake of introducing the gambler to his daughter.
Series
Forbidden Hollywood collection ; 2, disc 2
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Three on a match: three schoolgirls who have taken very different paths find themselves back together 10 years later. Female: a tough-minded auto executive seduces her male employees, until she meets the one who won't fall for her.
Series
Forbidden Hollywood collection ; 1, disc 2
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Precensorship story of gold-digging secretary Lil who works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. She has another affair with the chauffeur Albert.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Tyrone Power was as versatile in life as he was on the screen. He was several men, and during the creation of this book I have been fortunate in having the other principal 'lead" in each of these lives as an active partner, coming very close at times to the point of collaboration. He was the last idol created by the vast star-making machine, Twentieth Century Fox. Coming from a family of multi-generational actors, Tyrone Power broke the proverbial...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
Marion Davies was, in so many ways, created by and for William Randolph Hearst-their symbiotic relationship spanned from 1915 when W.R. first ogled her chorus-girl charms until his death in 1951. But she was much more quickly superannuated, cinema-historically speaking, by the Orson Welles-Herman Mankiewicz dumb-blonde caricature in Citizen Kane, paradoxically the most important film in her life. Fred Lawrence Guiles presents the life story of one...
12) D.O.A
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Frank Bigelow, a real-estate salesman, is given a slow-acting, lethal poison. In the few hours left to him, he frantically seeks to learn who is responsible and why he was poisoned.
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This collection contains twelve of the greatest mystery shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You'll hear Richard Widmark starring in Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Orson Welles in The Black Museum, Peter Lorre in Mystery in the Air, William Conrad in The Whistler, Ernest Chappell in Quiet, Please!, Everett Clarke in Lights Out, Harry Bartell in Escape, and Fredric March in a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense, plus such others...
