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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career--redefining the very nature of her art--to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life, to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I and toured America for the ninth time. Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, this is the first English-language...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Written by one of Vanity Fair's rising stars, Hollywood's Eve is a pulp propulsive account of the birth, adolescence, and adulthood of 20th-century Hollywood through the vivid and unashamed life of Los Angeles-born glamour girl, bohemian, artist, muse, sensualist, wit and pioneering writer Eve Babitz"--
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How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? On the morning he was born, he nearly died. His dad grew up in the Pogey–the Newburgh, New York, poorhouse. He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line "I'm a Toys 'R' Us Kid." He once watched James Baldwin and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The incredible story of the woman--actress, dancer, yogi, globetrotter--who brought yoga to America and to much of the rest of the western world. Born Eugenia Peterson in early 20th century Russia, Indra Devi was a rebel from earliest childhood. In the 1930s she fled to Berlin, and then--driven by her passion for yoga and a fascination with yogic philosophy (and Theosophy)--she journeyed to India, at a time when unaccompanied young European women...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Publisher
Distributed by Guthy-Renker Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003-2004
Physical Desc
[29] videodiscs (ca. 60 min. each) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The best of the Dean Martin variety show, assembled by producer-director Greg Garrison, contains exclusive footage from the popular variety show series. Included in this irresistible blend of classic entertainment are many of Dean's celebrity guests over the years"--Container.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (574 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 unnumbered pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
"Jean Rouch was an inspiration for the French New Wave, and a revolutionary force in ethnography and the study of Africa. Beginning in 1955 with his most controversial film The Mad Masters, through 1969's darkly comic Little by Little, these films represent the most sustained flourishing of Rouch's practice of "shared anthropology," a process of collaboration with his subjects. Astonishing on their own terms, now restored and released for the first...
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