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1) Worthy
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Pub. Date
2023
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In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith recounts her story in an intimate conversation with readers. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman?s right and saving grace.An impactful and rare memoir that engages and educates, Worthy is a courageous love song to self, to family, to life, and to the world.From an unconventional...
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Bolinda/HarperCollins UK
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Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the 20th century?s most famous film star. This authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy. Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of 12 in National Velvet to becoming the first...
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John Blake
Pub. Date
2011
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Joaquin Phoenix is one of the most fascinating & controversial actors working in film, & since his Oscar-nominated performance as Johnny Cash in 'Walk the Line', is one of the most wanted actors in Hollywood. Martin Howden traces the rise of this actor, from his early career as a child-star to his reinvention as a hip-hop musician.
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
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Unsinkable In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life, Debbie Reynolds wrote about finding her "brave, loyal, and loving" new husband. After two broken marriages, this third, she believed, was her lucky charm. But within a few years, Debbie discovered that he had betrayed her emotionally and financially, nearly destroying her life. Today, she writes, "When I read the optimistic ending of my last memoir now, I can't believe how...
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On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his chaotic and often eccentric family's home in Liverpool. Liverpool born and bred, Turner had first set eyes on Grahame when he was a young actor, living in London. Best known for her portrayal of irresistible...
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Publisher
JR
Pub. Date
2011
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In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler met Marlene Dietrich at the star's Paris apartment when her career was all but over. Marlene Dietrich lived an extraordinary life, and this book relies extensively on the star's own words and conversations with those who knew her to reveal just how fascinating and intriguing her life really was.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
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'Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow' is Sophia Loren's definitive autobiography, revealing her personal journey from the hardship of her childhood in Naples to her life as a screen legend, sharing stories of work, love, and family. Each chapter begins with a letter, a document, a photograph, or object that prompts her reminiscences. In her own words, these memoirs originated as, 'Unpublished memories, curious anecdotes, tiny secrets told, all of which...
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Preface
Pub. Date
2011
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This text explores the rise and camaraderie of the generation of hard-living, boozing actors who ripped apart the staid British theatre and film industry in a trail-blazing 10-year period from the mid-50s to the mid-60s. It features actors like Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Tom Courtney, Albert Finney, Peter O'Toole and Michael Caine.
9) Fame
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Description
But a Youtube sensation on the web is about to destroy everything she's fought for? After a bitter feud with a rival producer, hotshot movie producer Dorian Razmirez has had the plug pulled on every project he goes near. Casting the disgraced Hollywood diva Sabrina Leon in Wuthering Heights is a risk that might cost him what remains of his career. Newcomer Viorel Hudson, with his jet-black hair and high, slanting cheekbones has scored the role that...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2019.
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In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir 'Home', the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as 'Mary Poppins', 'The Sound of Music', 'Victor/Victoria', and many others. In 'Home Work', Julie describes her years in Hollywood - from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not...
11) In pieces
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018
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Sally Field is one of the most celebrated, beloved and enduring actors of our time, and now she tells her story in this intimate and haunting literary memoir. In her own words, she writes about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother.
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Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Recalling his life and career spanning over 50 glorious years, the legendary actor gives special attention to the two great loves of his life, Dinah Shore and Sally Field, his son, Quinton, as well as to the countless people who got in his way on his journey to Hollywood domination. With chapters on his early childhood, how he discovered acting, played poker with Frank Sinatra, received directing advice from Orson Welles, his golden years in Hollywood,...
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John Blake
Pub. Date
2005
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Sean Connery is one of the world's few true superstars. The screen creator of James Bond has commanded some of the highest fees in Hollywood and is lauded by critics and public alike. John Parker traces the astonishing rise to stardom of a tough street kid from Edinburgh.
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Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2010
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Sean Connery's portrayal of James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema. But Connery himself was forever pouring scorn on the fantasies audiences found it increasingly hard to separate him from. This book is both a biography of a star and an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life.
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Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2005
Description
John Parker reveals the truth about Jack Nicholson. He traces the astonishing rise to stardom of a boy who was brought up to believe his grandmother was his mother, and his mother was his sister. Jack Nicholson remains, after all these years, untamed and wild.