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Mary Wickes

Author : Steve Taravella
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604739061
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Mary Wickes written by Steve Taravella and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the life of a complicated woman who brought an assortment of unforgettable nurses, nuns, and housekeepers to life on screen and stage. Wickes (1910–1995) was part of some of the most significant moments in film, television, theatre, and radio history. On that frightening night in 1938 when Orson Welles recorded his earth-shattering “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, Wickes was waiting on another soundstage for him for a rehearsal of Danton’s Death, oblivious to the havoc taking place outside. When silent film star Gloria Swanson decided to host a live talk show on this new thing called television, Wickes was one of her first guests. When Lucille Ball made one of her first TV appearances, Wickes appeared with her—and became Lucy’s closest friend for more than thirty years. Wickes was the original Mary Poppins, long before an umbrella carried Julie Andrews across the rooftops of London. And when Disney began creating 101 Dalmatians, Wickes was asked to pose for animators trying to capture the evil of Cruella De Vil. The pinched-face actress who cracked wise by day became a confidante to some of the day’s biggest stars by night, including Bette Davis and Doris Day. Bolstered by interviews with almost three hundred people, and by private correspondence from Ball, Davis, Day, and others, Mary Wickes: I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before includes scores of never-before-shared anecdotes about Hollywood and Broadway. In the process, it introduces readers to a complex woman who sustained a remarkable career for sixty years.

Mary Wickes

Author : Steve Taravella
Publisher : University Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604739053
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Mary Wickes written by Steve Taravella and published by University Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the life of a complicated woman who brought an assortment of unforgettable nurses, nuns, and housekeepers to life on screen and stage. Wickes was part of some of the most significant moments in film, television, theatre, and radio history. On that frightening night in 1938 that Orson Welles recorded his earth-shattering "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, Wickes was waiting on another soundstage for him for a rehearsal of Danton's Death, oblivious to the havoc taking place outside. When silent film star Gloria Swanson decided to host a live talk show on this new thing called television, Wickes was one of her first guests. When Lucille Ball made her first TV appearance anywhere, Wickes appeared with her--and became Lucy's closest friend for more than thirty years. Wickes was the original Mary Poppins, long before an umbrella carried Julie Andrews across the rooftops of London. And when Disney began creating 101 Dalmatians, it asked Wickes to pose for animators trying to capture the evil of Cruella de Vil. The pinched-face actress who cracked wise by day became a confidante to some of the day's biggest stars by night, including Bette Davis and Doris Day. Bolstered by interviews with almost three hundred people, and by private correspondence from Ball, Davis, Day, and others, Mary Wickes: I Know I've Seen That Face Before includes scores of never-before-shared anecdotes about Hollywood and Broadway. In the process, it introduces readers to a complex woman who sustained a remarkable career for sixty years.

Surviving Cissy

Author : Kathy Garver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1630761168
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Cissy written by Kathy Garver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy Garver, the teenage heartthrob from the hit series Family Affair (1966–1971), was no one-hit wonder, but a journeywoman actress who appeared in such classic films as Night of the Hunter and The Ten Commandments long before she became a television icon. This memoir is a recollection of a working actress’s experiences, from the many films, television shows, and stage plays in which she performed, to her second career as a voice-over specialist in popular animated films and audiobooks. Featuring anecdotes, Hollywood history, and details of her relationships with such stars as Charlton Heston and Jon Provost, Surviving Cissy is a veritable quilt of Kathy’s exciting life.

Sweet Oddball - The Story of Alice Pearce (hardback)

Author : Fredrick Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629337371
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Oddball - The Story of Alice Pearce (hardback) written by Fredrick Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet Oddball, exhaustively researched and illustrated with 225 rare photos, chronicles the public and private lives of a lady much beloved by her fellow actors and fans.

The Wisdom of Eve

Author : Mary Orr
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822214298
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Eve written by Mary Orr and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Adapted from the story by Mary Orr, on which the film All About Eve and the hit musical APPLAUSE were based. An engrossing and revealing inside story of life in New York's theatre world, told in terms of an unscrupulous ingenue's rise to Broa

From Privilege to Prison: Finding Purpose in a Dark Place

Author : Amy Wickes-Passmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936408948
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book From Privilege to Prison: Finding Purpose in a Dark Place written by Amy Wickes-Passmore and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Privilege to Prison A bubbly, outgoing young woman spirals out of control in a habitual cycle of addiction and alcoholism, indulging in immoral and criminal behaviors. Amy Wickes-Passmore pays a hefty price: a six month prison sentence that continues for almost 4 years, at times alongside of inmates serving life sentences. She is overwhelmed with the loss of her kids to the system as she tries to make sense of her situation while battling her newly diagnosed Bipolar I diagnosis. Amy's animated, comedic personality serves her well behinds bars. She makes a vow to those whom she leaves behind to tell the unimaginable stories about what life is like on the inside. Some jaw dropping stories of inmates, the justice system, kickin' it with the lifers, and performing karaoke for the prison guards. When Amy is released, her personal growth while enduring the harshest of environments allows her to "flip the script" on her past.

Forever Mame

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604731397
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Forever Mame written by Bernard F. Dick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Auntie Mame is still the silver screen's exemplar. And Mame, the role Russell (1907–1976) would always be remembered for, embodies the rich and rewarding life Bernard F. Dick reveals in the first biography of this Golden Age star, Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell. Drawing on personal interviews and information from the archives of Russell and her producer-husband Frederick Brisson, Dick begins with Russell's childhood in Waterbury, Connecticut, and chronicles her early attempts to achieve recognition after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Frustrated by her inability to land a lead in a Broadway show, she headed for Hollywood in 1934 and two years later played her first starring role, the title character in Craig’s Wife. Dick discusses all of her films along with her triumphal return to Broadway, first in the musical Wonderful Town and later in Auntie Mame. Forever Mame details Russell's social circle of such stars as Loretta Young, Cary Grant, and Frank Sinatra. It traces an extraordinary career, ending with Russell's courageous battle against the two diseases that eventually caused her death: rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. Russell devoted her last years to campaigning for arthritis research. So successful was she in her efforts to alert lawmakers to this crippling disease that a leading San Francisco research center is named after her.

The Other Side of Ethel Mertz

Author : Frank Castelluccio
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425176092
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Ethel Mertz written by Frank Castelluccio and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only biography of Vivian Vance is now in paperback, with dozens of rare photographs and handwritten correspondence. Drawn from exclusive interviews with the actress's friends and acquaintances, as well as her own unpublished memoirs, this book tells the whole story about the former glamor girl, including her struggle with a violent depression, her failed love affairs, and her tumultuous friendship with Lucille Ball.

Hollywood Lesbians

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569800676
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Lesbians written by Boze Hadleigh and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dit boek is een vervolg op een eerdere gesprekkenreeks met homo's uit de wereld van film en theater. Enkele namen: Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Stanwyck en Marjorie Main. De gesprekken gaan natuurlijk vooral over film en de respectievelijke carrières van de geïnterviewden, maar er is ook plaats en tijd voor uitweidingen zoals bijvoorbeeld over vrouwen en politiek.

Joan Blondell

Author : Matthew Kennedy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626744327
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Joan Blondell written by Matthew Kennedy and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television, and radio. Born the child of itinerant vaudevillians, she was on stage by age three. With her casual sex appeal, distinctive cello voice, megawatt smile, luminous saucer eyes, and flawless timing, she came into widespread fame in Warner Bros. musicals and comedies of the 1930s, including Blonde Crazy, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade. Frequent co-star to James Cagney, Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart, friend to Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, and Bette Davis, and wife of Dick Powell and Mike Todd, Joan Blondell was a true Hollywood insider. By the time of her death, she had made nearly 100 films in a career that spanned over fifty years. Privately, she was unerringly loving and generous, while her life was touched by financial, medical, and emotional upheavals. Meticulously researched, expertly weaving the public and private, and featuring numerous interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes traces the changing face of Twentieth Century American entertainment through the career of this extraordinary actress.

Just Outside the Spotlight

Author : Luke Yankee
Publisher : justoutsidethespotlight.com
ISBN 13 : 9780823078882
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Just Outside the Spotlight written by Luke Yankee and published by justoutsidethespotlight.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned, award-winning actress Heckart knew everybody in Hollywood - and her son spills the stories she could never tell.

The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818

Author : Mary C. Gillett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818 written by Mary C. Gillett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendices include laws and legislation concerning the Army Medical Department. Maps include those of territories and frontiers and Continental Army hospital locations. Illustrations are chiefly portraits.

The Hundred and One Dalmatians

Author : Dodie Smith
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356136
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Hundred and One Dalmatians written by Dodie Smith and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dodie Smith’s classic tale adapted into a playful and stylish new picture book Dalmatians Pongo and Missis live in London with their beloved owners. When Missis finds out she’s going to have puppies, they’re all thrilled! But, Missis doesn’t just have one puppy . . . or two . . . or three . . . she has fifteen! When the puppies go missing, Pongo and Missis know that there’s only one woman who can be behind the dognapping: the notorious Cruella de Vil. They strike out across the city and—with a little help from the street dogs of London—rescue their pups and many, many more from a terrible fate.

The Divine Sister

Author : Charles Busch
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573698864
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Divine Sister written by Charles Busch and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Divine Sister is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as 'The Song of Bernadette,' 'The Bells of St. Mary's,' 'The Singing Nun' and 'Agnes of God,' The Divine Sister tells the story of St. Veronica's indomitable Mother Superior who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing "visions," sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows."--P. [4] of cove

Hank and Jim

Author : Scott Eyman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501102192
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Hank and Jim written by Scott Eyman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography” (The New York Times) from bestselling author Scott Eyman about the remarkable friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart, two Hollywood legends who maintained a close relationship that endured all of life’s twists and turns. Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years, but they became friends when they were unknown. They roomed together as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they were roommates again. Between them they made such classic films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, and Rear Window. They got along famously, with a shared interest in elaborate practical jokes and model airplanes, among other things. But their friendship also endured despite their differences: Fonda was a liberal Democrat, Stewart a conservative Republican. Fonda was a ladies’ man who was married five times; Stewart remained married to the same woman for forty-five years. Both men volunteered during World War II and were decorated for their service. When Stewart returned home, still unmarried, he once again moved in with Fonda, his wife, and his two children, Jane and Peter, who knew him as Uncle Jimmy. For his “breezy, entertaining” (Publishers Weekly) Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda’s widow and children as well as three of Stewart’s children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men—in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together. This is not just another Hollywood story, but “a fascinating…richly documented biography” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of an extraordinary friendship that lasted through war, marriages, children, careers, and everything else.

Life with Father

Author : Clarence Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Life with Father written by Clarence Day and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY TELEVISION

Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY TELEVISION written by Bill Cotter and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-22 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever history of Disney television is perfectly timed to coincide with the return of "The Wonderful World of Disney" to Sunday night prime time on ABC.From the much-beloved Disneyland and That Darn Cat to recent hits like Ellen and Home Improvement, Disney televisions a cultural institution that has added joy and laughter to the lives of millions of Americans from the 1950s to today. The Wonderful World of Disney Television is a fascinating, comprehensive history of all the Disney television shows ever produced, from the ones we loved to watch as children to today's top-rated programming. Rich with photographs, little-known details, anecdotes, and vital statistics, this fascinating collection fully describes each of the Walt Disney television shows, including complete schedules of aired episodes, seasonal highlights, production details, behind-the-scenes stories, full cast and crew listings, and plot synopses -- and shares important moments in Disney's television history such as how Walt got into television in the first place!A treasure trove of nostalgia, coinciding perfectly with the primetime return of The Wonderful