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21) Then again
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The award-winning actress documents her rise from an everyday girl to an acclaimed performer while exploring her defining relationship with her mother and how their shared and separate dreams influenced their experiences.
23) Tribute
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Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
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xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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The actress and director shares the first half of her unconventional life, from her childhood in Ireland and her teen years in London to her coming of age as a model and budding actress in New York.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
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x, 446 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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With her trademark effervescent humor, Goldie tells us about the lessons she's learned and the wisdom she feels she's been given, in the hope of giving something back. Not a Hollywood "tell-all," this book is a very personal look at moments private and powerful, a trip back through a life well lived by a woman well loved. She takes us on a tour of her go-go dancing years in New York in the sixties, her phenomenal success on TV's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In,...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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With this second memoir, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films--Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Andrews describes her years in the film industry -- from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she discuss her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television, she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new...
30) My life so far
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
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xiii, 599 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Fonda divides her "life so far" into three "acts," writing about her childhood, first films, and marriage to Roger Vadim in Act One. These early years are marked by profound sadness: her mother's mental illness and suicide when Jane is twelve years old, her father's emotional distance, and her personal struggle to find her way in the world. By her second act, she lays the foundation for her activism, even as her career takes flight. She highlights...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
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416 p. ; 23 cm.
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When allegations about his actress wife's infidelity are posted online, James, a screenwriter with a violent past, attacks his wife's lover, sparking a media frenzy that compels him to go into hiding and resort to extreme measures to protect his wife.
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[2015]
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In this spectacular saga as radiant, thrilling, and beguiling as Hollywood itself, Adriana Trigiani takes us back to Tinsel Town's golden age--an era as brutal as it was resplendent--and into the complex and glamorous world of a young actress hungry for fame and success. With meticulous, beautiful detail, Trigiani paints a rich, historical landscape of 1930s Los Angeles, where European and American artisans flocked to pursue the ultimate dream: to...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xiv, 268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 22 cm
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The beloved Hollywood star and New York Times bestselling author of Unsinkable continues her intimate chat with fans in this entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes, and random musings from a woman who has seen it all, and done most of it.
35) True love
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Celebra
Pub. Date
2014.
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x, 276 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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One of the most influential Latina performers in history opens up about her life's most defining period, two years during which it took everything she had to rise above the greatest challenges she had ever faced.
36) Brother & sister
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[2020]
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"A memoir by the award-winning actress about her younger brother, Randy, and the ways in which siblings' lives can diverge and then come back together"--
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At the age of five, Shirley Temple became the world's most famous and acclaimed child, the most talented, beautiful child performer ever to capture the public's imagination. By the time she was ten, she had either met or had received words of admiration from almost everyone of distinction. Nine-tenths of the world could recognize her on sight. She single-handedly cheered an entire nation caught in the firm grip of a depression. Her films saved a major...
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Regan Arts
Pub. Date
2016.
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ix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"As America was stepping into the modern era, one great beauty became the artist?s model of choice. Her perfect form became the emblem of the Gilded Age and appears on the greatest monuments of New York and the nation. Supermodel, actress, icon?her beauty paved the way for a life of glamour, passion, and ultimately tragedy. She dated the millionaires of the fashionable Newport colony, became the first American movie star ever to appear naked in a...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"One of our best-loved actors Michael Caine has starred in a huge range of films from the classic movies Alfie, Zulu, and The Italian Job (the inspiration for the book title) to the Hollywood blockbusting Dark Knight trilogy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Cider House Rules. Caine has excelled in every kind of role--with a skill that's made it look easy. With brilliant new insight into his life and work and showcasing his wonderful...
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Almuzara
Pub. Date
[ayo de 2023]
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331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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"Cual es el legado cultural en la musica popular y en el cine hispanoamericano de Sara Montiel? Que la llevo a convertirse en un icono, leyenda y mito? De que manera su carrera y su personalidad ayudaron a desafiar y cambiar los roles de genero en la sociedad de su epoca? Saritisima forma parte del imaginario cultural espanol del siglo xx, pues logro un alcance internacional como representante de la cultura espanola. A traves de su produccion musical...
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