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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first authorized biography of the Hollywood icon draws on unpublished letters, diary entries, and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with Taylor's closest friends and family to tell the story of her remarkable life and career, from her rise to fame at age twelve, through her eight marriages, and her efforts to fight AIDS.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A memoir based on the author's one-woman show describes growing up with celebrity parents, her early success in "Star Wars," battle with addiction and mental illness, turbulent romances, role as a single mother, and struggle for recovery and healing.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The popular actress reveals her journey of self-discovery through her childhood in India, her teenage years in the United States, her success in beauty competitions, the challenges and triumphs of her acting career, and her marriage to Nick Jonas.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Draws on the actor, director, and producer's personal documents to offer insight into his complex life behind his famous roles, discussing the death of his son, his relationship with Sydney Pollack, and his establishment of the Sundance Film Festival.
10) Elizabeth
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Oscar award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor examines her struggles with drugs and alcohol in the 1960s and 1970s, her philanthropic work as an AIDS activist, and her successes as a businesswoman.
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman....
16) Tippi: a memoir
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
17) Marlene
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and winner of the 1986 New York Film Critic's Circle non-fiction film prize, Marlene is a "portrait of a remarkably strong-willed woman, stage-managing her career right up to the bitter end" (New York Times) that brilliantly lifts the veil on a movie star of the brightest magnitude as she is fading into twilight.
18) Do tell: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A glittering debut novel set in the golden age of Hollywood, following a former actress whose new career in gossip journalism grants her more power on the page than she ever commanded in front of the camera"--
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