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Author | : Charlotte Chandler |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2008-12-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1847396984 |
Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Just this short list of Bette Davis' films gives an unmistakable sense of the role she played in twentieth-century cinema as one of the finest performers in Hollywood history. Drawing on an extensive series of conversations that took place during the last decade of Bette Davis' life, this biography draws heavily on the actresses own words. Looking back over the decades, from her teenage decision to become an actress to the pain and outrage over her daughter's bitter portrayal of her, Davis speaks with extraordinary candour. She explains how her father's abandonment of her a child reverberated through her four marriages, and discusses the persistent Hollywood legend that she was difficult to work with. Immersing readers in the drama and glamour of movie-making's golden age, The Girl Who Walked Home Alone is a startling portrait of an enduring icon.
Author | : Charlotte Chandler |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1471105865 |
As Charlotte Chandler did so well in her previous biographies, she will again draw on the recorded words of Joan Crawford and those who knew her well to paint a rich portrait of the woman and the star. Joan Crawford was born Lucille LeSueur in Texas in 1908. She became a chorus girl in silent films before finding her voice in Possessed(1931) with Clark Gable. Their affair would continue, on and off screen, for many years. Throughout the thirties, Joan continued to earn critical acclaim for her forte of playing career women who never gave up. Her Oscar-winning film Mildred Piercein 1945 began the long-running feud between Joan and Bette Davis, which reached its height with Whatever Happened to Baby Janein 1962. Joan was married four times including once to Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who spoke extensively to Charlotte Chandler for this book. Following her death, Joan's decision to cut her eldest children out of her will prompted her daughter Christina to write the damning bookMommie Dearest which changed Joan's image forever. Charlotte Chandler spent many hours recording interviews with Joan and also those closest to her. What emerges is a subtle portrait of a complex women and a new insight into the legendary actress.
Author | : Farshid Kazemi |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1800343949 |
There is something weird and eerie going on in the oneiric Iranian ghost-town Bad City. A mysterious female vampire, clad in a long-black veil, imbued with occult and erotic power, has newly arrived in town and is summarily dispensing with its unsavory characters. Through a chance encounter in a night of luminal darkness, an eternally dark romance begins – baptized in love’s blood. Shot in dazzling anamorphic black and white cinematography and accompanied with an intoxicating and mesmeric soundtrack, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014), was an instant popular and critical success. Dubbed ‘the first Iranian vampire western’ the genre-bending film is a pastiche of genres such as vampire cinema, gothic and horror films, spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, and Iranian cinema; yet the film stands as a new vampire fairy-tale with a unique style all its own. The first full-length study dedicated to the film since its release, this book in the Devil’s Advocate series provides a unique approach to the film situated within three theoretical coordinates: the vampire genre, psychoanalytic (film) theory and German Idealism.
Author | : Tim Larkin |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0316354635 |
This book could save your life: Protect yourself from violence and learn survival skills for dangerous situations with this essential guide from a former military intelligence officer. In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it's the only answer. The sound of breaking glass downstairs in the middle of the night. The words, "Move and you die." The hands on your child, or the knife to your throat. In this essential book, self-protection expert and former military intelligence officer Tim Larkin changes the way we think about violence in order to save our lives. By deconstructing our assumptions about violence -- its morality, its function in modern society, how it actually works -- Larkin unlocks the shackles of our own taboos and arms us with what we need to know to prevent, prepare for, and survive the unthinkable event of life-or-death violence. Through a series of harrowing true-life stories, Larkin demonstrates that violence is a tool equally effective in the hands of the "bad guy" or the "good guy"; that the person who acts first, fastest and with the full force of their body is the one who survives; and that each and every one of us is capable of being that person when our lives are at stake. An indispensable resource, When Violence is the Answer will remain with you long after you've finished reading, as the bedrock of your self-protection skills and knowledge.
Author | : Cindi McMenamin |
Publisher | : Harvest House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0736948236 |
More and more women are finding themselves alone in their Christian walk because of life's circumstances—a lack of support from people in her home, work, or church; being left out of the things she used to be included in; being misunderstood and unable to explain. Cindi McMenamin, author of Drama Free, offers personal encouragement and practical, biblical steps for gaining strength in times of isolation and becoming resilient to, not resentful toward, loneliness. Cindi's audience for Women Who Walk Alone is a broad one—single women, women parenting alone, women alone as the spiritual head of their household, women facing challenging life situations, women without close friendships. And her message is timely—every woman feels alone at some point in her life, yet every woman needs someone to grow alongside her and to encourage her in her walk with the Lord. When Women Walk Alone encourages readers to see alone times as unique opportunities for personal and spiritual growth. Women will discover practical ways to... find support from other women who feel alone in their lives celebrate their own uniqueness and grow through the lonely times gain strength for the challenges of parenting alone funnel "loneliness in prayer" into "a new power in prayer alone with God" rely on the Lord and others to overcome personal trials Using examples of biblical and contemporary women who emerged from a time of loneliness stronger and more complete, Cindi also looks at the example of Jesus and the many times He was alone or sought out some "alone time" to draw strength from His Father.
Author | : Ed Sikov |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2008-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780805088632 |
A biography of Bette Davis, focusing on her acting career, drawing from interviews with friends, directors, and admirers, archival research, and a new look at her films to provide insights into her personal and professional life.
Author | : Veronika Martenova Charles |
Publisher | : Tundra Books |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2012-02-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1770490124 |
Cautionary tales from West Virginia, Africa, and Central Europe are related by each boy until they are certain Mothman, Monster, and Ghost are after them. Are they scared? Not enough to admit it, but they certainly are running for home a little faster than usual.
Author | : Linda Sue Park |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547251270 |
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.
Author | : Charlotte Chandler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Motion picture actors and actresses |
ISBN | : 9781907532474 |
In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler met Marlene Dietrich at the star’s Paris apartment when her career was all but over. Elderly and in retirement, here was a screen legend who could, with the gift of hindsight give Chandler a fresh angle on her fascinating life.Marlene Dietrich began her career as a model in her native Berlin, becoming a stage and screen actress during the silent era, and a star with the worldwide success of The Blue Angel. Then, under the watchful eye of her mentor Josef von Sternberg, she broke America and became one of the brightest stars in Hollywood. A series of acclaimed pictures – Morocco, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, Destry Rides Again, among many others – propelled her to international stardom.With the outbreak of World War II, the fiercely anti-Nazi Dietrich became an American citizen and entertained Allied troops on the front lines. After the war she would embark on a new career as a stage performer and with her young music director, the gifted Burt Bacharach – whom Chandler. interviewed for the book – Dietrich enjoyed an outstanding second career. By the late 1970s, however, plagued by accidents, Dietrich had become a virtual recluse in her Paris apartment, communicating with the outside world almost entirely by telephone.Marlene Dietrich lived an extraordinary life, and Marlene, A Personal Biography relies extensively on the star’s own words and conversations with those who knew her well to reveal just how intriguing and fascinating that life really was.
Author | : Shirley Verrett |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003-05-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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