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1) Dark star
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The daughter of romantic idol John Gilbert offers a sympathetic, largely candid biography--which blames his downfall on a conspiracy of sabotage masterminded by MGM's Louis B. Mayer. Fountain sketches in Gilbert's early years; his storybook climb from teenage poverty to beginnings, as a gawky extra, in the silents; his rocky marriage to Fountain's mother, actress Leatrice Joy, who was the bigger draw at the start. Then comes Gilbert's mid-1920s burst...
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Paulette Goddard is perhaps more famous for her illustrious husbands--Charles Chaplin, Burgess Meredith and Erich Maria Remarque--than for her film career. Despite leading a high life both in Hollywood and abroad, Goddard, according to the authors, was not a celluloid damsel typical of her era: she was independent, unconventional, and intelligent. A childhood that was impoverished educationally, emotionally, and financially toughened her. Forced to...
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Actress Mimi Kennedy's face may be more familiar than her name, but she has racked up over 20 years of show business credits, including a stint in the original production of Grease and lead roles in several TV shows. Kennedy knew early on she wanted to be an actress, and it didn't hurt that her cousin by marriage was actress Ruth Warwick (Phoebe on the soap All My Children). After graduating from Smith College, Kennedy followed the usual rocky road...
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Pola Negri, born Apollonia Chapulek in Poland, was a singer, stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. Her career on stage began in 1913, but as WWI devastated those venues, she relocated to Germany, to become a star in silent films. American Director Adolph Zukor lured her to Paramount in 1921, for one of her most productive decades....
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When Walter Matthau was approached about cooperating in a book on his life and career he replied, "I am not yet ready for biographies and such. Give me another 25 years and you will have my assistance and my approval." This book, then, is the result of research from Matthau's magazine and newspaper interviews, the comments of his colleagues, and viewings of his films.
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''Growing Up With Chico'' is casual, chatty and unpretentious, with bits of special information and a couple of important insights that make it essential reading for your true Marx Brothers buff. Practically everyone who's followed the career of the Marx Brothers knows that it was Chico, over the bridge table, who talked Irving Thalberg into taking them on at Metro after they'd run out of inspiration at Paramount. But his essential function was performed...
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This slight biography is little more than a film-by-film resume--starting after a few words about early years as poor N.Y. kid, traveling acrobat, and soldier. Lancaster arrived in Hollywood in 1946, after his very first stage role on Broadway at age 32 won him a screen-test with producer Hal Wallis. His career began promisingly with "The Killers," but from then on, the surprisingly bookish Lancaster pursued his 'obsession with the quality of stories.'...
8) Paul Newman
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Superstar Paul Newman is a top box office draw, one of the most highly regarded actors in the world, an established director, a formidable force on the car-racing circuit, and a political activist. Enhanced by dozens of photographs, this is the story of his remarkable life and career.
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This book is a competent run through of the sleepy-eyed film star's career--heavy on anecdotes about his brawling, boozing, rebellious ways. Raised by his determined, plucky widowed mother Ann, Bob was later sent--with sister Julie--to his grandfather's farm in Delaware, while his mother worked and remarried. Some of his family and friends feel these traumas produced a feeling of abandonment and loneliness that has haunted him all his life. Mitchum...
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They were the king and queen of the American theater, embodying all the clichés of the successful acting couple--temperamental, professional, argumentative, competitive, rebellious, ingenious, on-stage magic, offstage magical. Until they retired in 1960, the Lunts stood for high style and high professionalism on the American stage. After their first joint performance in Ferenc Molnar's "The Guardsman" in 1924, shortly after their marriage, they adopted...
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