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| Author | : Garry Cranford |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2014-06-18 |
| Genre | : Schooners |
| ISBN | : 9781771173490 |
Launched in 1945, the schooner Norma & Gladys illustrates the best qualities of Newfoundland and Labrador's industries of shipbuilding, the Labrador fishery, the Grand Banks fishery, and coasting freight to remote seaside towns. Her story also illustrates the worst examples of the province's favourite bloodsport: partisan politics. In 1973, she was purchased by the provincial government and refitted as a floating maritime museum; her political legacy soon included innumerable blunders and cover-ups, mutiny, a stowaway, and perhaps the ghost of a sealing captain. In 1975, Canada's External Affairs appointed Norma & Gladys as a roving ambassador to promote fisheries management within a 200-mile coastal limit. But she was unseaworthy; Clarenville Shipyard had installed the wrong masts, and her itinerary to sail around the world was scrapped. After a frontal assault by the media and political partisans, she nevertheless promoted the province to 78,900 visitors in nineteen European ports. She returned with her reputation restored, her signal flags flapping like a hundred gypsy scarves on the breeze. "On Friday, January 16, 1976, at nine o'clock in the evening, Liliana Wagner stowed away under the canvas of one of the port dories." "Eight pumps could not keep her afloat. Norma & Gladys had sprung a perfect leak." Of her coasting years: "You'd know when Norma & Gladys was in port. Every man would be dodging up the road with a bologna on his back." Alan Hillier On the world tour: "I was in Captain Jack's bad books. . . . I had to put in the pigs. It was the worst day of my life." Charlie Parsons "In the face of critics and storms, Norma & Gladys does represent something romantic, something glamorous, and it's been a job well done." Premier Frank Moores, August, 1976
| Author | : L. Seal |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2010-10-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0230294502 |
Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.
| Author | : Lois Banner |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2012-08-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1408814102 |
As one of the founders of the field of women's history, Lois Banner reveals Marilyn Monroe in the way that only a top-notch historian and biographer could. Banner appreciates the complexities of Monroe's personal life in the context of her achievements as an actor, singer, dancer, comedian, model and courtesan.
| Author | : Kathryn Dixon |
| Publisher | : TAJ Books International |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 2013-03-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1844062678 |
Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, is one of the best-loved movie stars and sex goddesses of all time, although she died much too young at the age of thirty-six. Marilyn overcame multiple foster homes and an early, war-time marriage to become the wife of two of Americas most famous men: first, the baseball all-star Joe DiMaggio, and then the playwright Arthur Miller. Not surprisingly, she even caught the eye of President John F. Kennedy to whom she famously sang Happy Birthday in 1962 in front of an overflow crowd at New York Citys Madison Square Garden. A life-time struggle with self-confidence, tumultous marriages, ill health, and drug and alcohol addictions, Marilyns movie career suffered in the last years before her death. The filming of her last movie, Somethings Got to Give, was never completed. She died during production. In death as in life, Marilyn Monroe fascinates. This book is a brief history of her short life. It is filled with photos of Marilyn throughout her life. Marilyn worked with some of the best directors of her day and pushed herself to excel in comedic, dramatic, and musical roles. She was only the second female movie star to create her own production company. Marilyn may have played the dumb blonde, but that was just one more role.
| Author | : Keith Badman |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2012-07-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0312607148 |
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.
| Author | : Les Harding |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2012-09-07 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786466375 |
Taking an innovative approach to the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), this biographical dictionary concentrates on her circle of friends, acquaintances and coworkers--1618 in all. Distilled from hundreds of celebrity biographies are references to, and quotes about, the iconic Hollywood sex symbol from such diverse personalities as architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, beat poet Jack Kerouac, novelist Somerset Maugham, jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, counterculture guru Timothy Leary and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, to name but a few. All of these remarkable people have, in one way or another, crossed paths with the magnificent Monroe. The entries in this volume (with source listings for further reading and research) confirm the fact that Marilyn Monroe remains a figure of enduring fascination five decades after her death.
| Author | : Elizabeth Abbott |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 526 |
| Release | : 2011-09-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1590208765 |
“A lively and nuanced look at gender roles as they have been revealed by the lives of concubines and mistresses over the centuries” (Kirkus). She exists as both a fictional character and as a flesh-and-blood human being. But who is she, really? Why do women become mistresses, and what is it like to have a private life that is usually also a secret life? Is a mistress merely a wife-in-waiting, or is she the very definition of the emancipated, independent female? Elizabeth Abbott intelligently examines the motives and morals of some of history's most infamous and fascinating women, from antiquity to today. Drawing intimate portraits of those who have—by chance, coercion, or choice—assumed this complex role, Mistresses offers a rich blend of personal biography and cultural insight. “Ms. Abbott is delightfully indiscreet, with an eye for a good story and a colloquial style . . . She has done the ladies a service by bringing them out of the shadows.” —The Economist
| Author | : J. Randy Taraborrelli |
| Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 550 |
| Release | : 2009-08-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0446550957 |
From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes the definitive biography of the most enduring icon in popular American culture. When Marilyn Monroe became famous in the 1950s, the world was told that her mother was either dead or simply not a part of her life. However, that was not true. In fact, her mentally ill mother was very much present in Marilyn's world and the complex family dynamic that unfolded behind the scenes is a story that has never before been told...until now. In this groundbreaking book, Taraborrelli draws complex and sympathetic portraits of the women so influential in the actress' life, including her mother, her foster mother, and her legal guardian. He also reveals, for the first time, the shocking scope of Marilyn's own mental illness, the identity of Marilyn's father and the half-brother she never knew, and new information about her relationship with the Kennedy's-Bobby, Jack, and Pat Kennedy Lawford. Explosive, revelatory, and surprisingly moving, this is the final word on the life of one of the most fascinating and elusive icons of the 20th Century.
| Author | : Jan Bondeson |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 751 |
| Release | : 2014-01-15 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 144561491X |
Which of London's most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Jack the Ripper, the Kray twins, the Blackout Ripper or ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh?
| Author | : Kris Courtney |
| Publisher | : Kris Courtney / CreateSpace Independent Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 459 |
| Release | : 2017-09-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1977809359 |
Adaptation of "Norma Jean's Sun" ISBN:978-0578020594 Includes Updated Content & Original Working Film Script True Story & Female Driven Narrative is about the life of Norma and her family history of struggle to become the Parent of a child with needs beyond any comprehension, only to find in the end an ending that will touch your core! Born into a life of isolation & pain with the graphic burden of surgical manipulation to function, walk & survive in a world of normalcy. The iconic image inspires still today and will present a platform for an audience into a never before filmed life inside a family struggling to accept reason! "Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives beside us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.""A Wonderful commentary on the very things that make us all human" "Brave honesty of confession, makes the book unique" "Touching story, full of hope" The story is not only convincingly true, but will rivet the reader with its genuine and unassuming pathos.“ This Adaptation of Norma Jean’s Sun is a memoir that came from the depths of one man’s struggle to become a predefined member of a social mold which was never cast.”A confinement that would later serve to encapsulate, isolate and establish a prototype of life not understood or sought by those watching. Blessing, punishment or choice is a position each is given and though not all will genesis into a full heart, most can adapt through perseverance. Yet in this episode, you will question on how or who provided the seed to a life of strife. Further, worth following… The story is described by reviewers as “Eloquent, stirring and emotional, inspirational to the courageous”
