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Scandals, Secrets and Swansongs

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781493060535
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Scandals, Secrets and Swansongs written by Boze Hadleigh and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the images and facades of stars whose fame and fascination continue to outlive them lies the naked truth. How Hollywood stars lived, worked and died is often more dramatic than their films. When we talk about movie stars we usually dwell not on their movies but their personalities or what happened to them or supposedly happened. Their lives interest us even more than their roles, especially, let's be honest, their mishaps and tragedies, including early deaths. Their scandals define several movie stars, and Hollywood secrets remain a true-gossip staple, particularly sexual secrets. Scandals, Secrets & Swansongs takes a close-up, no-holds-barred look at 101 stars--at their surprising, often shocking, sometimes sordid but always entertaining real selves and lives.

Scandals, Secrets and Swansongs

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493063448
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Scandals, Secrets and Swansongs written by Boze Hadleigh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the images and facades of stars whose fame and fascination continue to outlive them lies the naked truth. How Hollywood stars lived, worked and died is often more dramatic than their films. When we talk about movie stars we usually dwell not on their movies but their personalities or what happened to them or supposedly happened. Their lives interest us even more than their roles, especially, let’s be honest, their mishaps and tragedies, including early deaths. Their scandals define several movie stars, and Hollywood secrets remain a true-gossip staple, particularly sexual secrets. Scandals, Secrets & Swansongs takes a close-up, no-holds-barred look at 101 stars—at their surprising, often shocking, sometimes sordid but always entertaining real selves and lives.

Game Show Confidential

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493072595
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Game Show Confidential written by Boze Hadleigh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network’s Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim’s Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box games for at-home play. The show Truth or Consequences made the transition from radio to television in the late 1940s and was so popular that a town in New Mexico was named for the show. Television proved to be the perfect platform for game shows since they were very popular and cheap to produce. Even in reruns today, the older shows still draw huge audiences. This book describes the evolution of the game show, its larger-than-life producers and hosts, as well as the scandals that have rocked it from time to time, including bloopers from such “adult” oriented shows as The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and Hollywood Squares. This is an entertaining and lively look at an American phenomenon whose popularity doesn’t seem to be going away.

Elvis Forever

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1626015953
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Elvis Forever written by Boze Hadleigh and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Elvis the most charismatic star ever? What else accounts for his continuing global appeal and media presence, his allure to music lovers of all ages and to fans whose pilgrimages to Graceland make it the most-visited private residence in the USA? Presley's estate now earns more annually than when Elvis was alive. He died at 42, close on half a century ago, but new generations keep discovering him. He rocks and rolls on and on, not necessarily as a movie star—he was the first to dismiss his 31-film output—but as the top-selling singer in history, a pop-culture icon, an ageless sex symbol and a mythic figure who inspires intense, even fanatical devotion (e.g., the First Presbyterian Church of Elvis the Divine). When Elvis died there were some 170 Elvis imitators. A quarter-century later there were an estimated 85,000 Elvis "tribute artists," including a popular Chinese Elvis in London and a gay Mexican American, El Vez, whose re-tooled song performances include "You Ain't Nothin' But a Chihuahua." There are even Elvis performances in "heaven"—some years ago two groups of skydiving impersonators, the Flying Elvises and the Flying Elvis, sued each other in federal court. Elvis Forever offers possibly the most revealing and rounded close-up look yet at the King. The frank, often bold, sometimes shocking or surprising quotes from insiders and outsiders, peers, costars, friends, employees and famous fans took over two decades to collect and cover every phase of the life and legacy of the magnetic man from Memphis.

Secrets and a Scandal

Author : Jane Maguire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781777892609
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Secrets and a Scandal written by Jane Maguire and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lady in disgrace ... When Eliza Wright's first London Season ends prematurely in scandal, she's only too glad to return to her quiet life in the country. After all, her gardens hold far more appeal to her than the happenings of the ton. Much to her chagrin, her wealthy father concocts another arrangement: a marriage of convenience to the recent successor to an earldom, a man whose title will restore her place in society. Wedding someone like the somber, detached Lord Ashton is the last thing Eliza pictured for herself. Yet with the life she thought she'd lead crumbling before her eyes, what other choice does she have? A desperate earl ... Edward Adderley, the Earl of Ashton, has spent the past six years roaming the Continent, trying to escape a scandal of his own. Ever since his first marriage ended in unspeakable tragedy, he has cut himself off from others, vowing to never place himself in such a position again. But when he fulfills his father's dying wish by returning to England, only to find his estate bankrupt and in shambles, he sees no way forward but through marriage to the well-dowered Miss Wright. A marriage only in name ... Their union is to be a business arrangement, nothing more. That is, until Edward finds himself drawn to the unconventional Miss Wright, and Eliza's attraction to the brooding earl becomes too intense to ignore. Could the fragile bond they construct blossom into a second chance at happiness for them both? Or will the secrets that linger in their pasts forever stand between them?

A Scandal, a Secret, a Baby

Author : Sharon Kendrick
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373131283
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book A Scandal, a Secret, a Baby written by Sharon Kendrick and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage scandal, showbiz baby: "Seduced by Matteo, a world-famous actor, the once-innocent Jennifer marries the superstar and starts her own acting career. But at the height of their popularity, their busy lives tear them apart and they go their separate ways. They thought it was over, until they bump into each other on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. Although at first tempers flare, in a moment of passion in the elevator they make love once more. A few weeks later, Jennifer starts to notice changes happening within her body"--Publisher.

Broadway Babylon

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Back Stage Books
ISBN 13 : 0307830136
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Broadway Babylon written by Boze Hadleigh and published by Back Stage Books. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of theater celebrity gossip, can you believe it? Here's the book that airs Broadway's dirty laundry! Inspired by the classic Hollywood Babylon (in print for more than forty years, more than 100,000 copies sold), Broadway Babylon presents a hyper-entertaining look at the Great White Way's biggest scandals, best-kept secrets, and most over-the-top feuds. Author Boze Hadleigh, the preeminent disher of celebrity dish, serves up 400 pages of tasty, never-before-told stories about such show-biz icons as Ethel Merman, Tennessee Williams, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, and many, many others. Get it while it's hot!

Swan Song

Author : Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443458333
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Swan Song written by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling debut about gossip, slander and the public humiliation of New York socialites in the 1970s. Based on real events, Swan Song is the tragic story of the beautiful, wealthy, vulnerable women whom Truman Capote called his Swans, and who deserted him after he betrayed them. On exclusive yachts and private jets, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fears with the famous writer. Then in 1975, Capote committed an act of professional and social suicide when he turned his words against the most influential women in Manhattan and silenced his muses. After two decades of cultivating intimate friendships and a high-end lifestyle, Capote detonated a literary grenade, forever rupturing the elite circle he’d worked so hard to infiltrate.

Scandals and Secrets

Author : Miranda Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863867696
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Scandals and Secrets written by Miranda Lee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Celluloid Gaze

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879109714
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Celluloid Gaze written by Boze Hadleigh and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). Interviews with six men from the world of film and entertainment actors Sal Mineo and Rock Hudson; directors George Cukor, Luchino Visconti, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder; and designer, photographer, and author Cecil Beaton. Their remarkably frank conversations with Hadleigh reveal much about their lives and careers and how their homosexuality affected both.

Capote's Women

Author : Laurence Leamer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593328108
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Capote's Women written by Laurence Leamer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS—THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK—NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU! New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers—the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans." "There are certain women," Truman Capote wrote, "who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich." Barbara "Babe" Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister)—they were the toast of midcentury New York. Capote befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and shocking way possible. Bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed publication of Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1958 and In Cold Blood in 1966, when Capote struggled with a crippling case of writer's block. While enjoying all the fruits of his success, he was struck with an idea for what he was sure would be his most celebrated novel...one based on the remarkable, racy lives of his very, very rich friends. For years, Capote attempted to write what he believed would have been his magnum opus, Answered Prayers. But when he eventually published a few chapters in Esquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his swans were laid bare for all to see, and he was banished from their high-society world forever. Laurence Leamer recreates the lives of these fascinating women, their friendships with Capote and one another, and the doomed quest to write what could have been one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

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 1996-02 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.

Dorothy Dandridge

Author : Donald Bogle
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063209314
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Dorothy Dandridge written by Donald Bogle and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer—the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award—who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement—a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it. “An ambitious, rigorously researched account of the long-ignored film star and chanteuse. . . . Bogle has fashioned a resonant history of a bygone era in Hollywood and passionately documented the contribution of one of its most dazzling and complex performers."—New York Times Book Review In the segregated world of 1950s America, few celebrities were as talented, beautiful, glamorous, and ultimately influential as Dorothy Dandridge. Universally admired, she was Hollywood's first full-fledged Black movie star. Film historian Donald Bogle offers a panoramic portrait of Dorothy Dandridge’s extraordinary and ultimately tragic life and career, from her early years as a child performer in Cleveland, to her rise as a nightclub headliner and movie star, to her heartbreaking death at 42. Bogle reveals how this exceptionally talented and intensely ambitious entertainer broke down racial barriers by integrating some of America's hottest nightclubs and broke through Tinseltown’s glass ceiling. Along with her smash appearances at venues such as Harlem’s famed Cotton Club, Dorothy starred in numerous films, making history with her role in Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, playing opposite Harry Belafonte. Her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress—the first Oscar nod for a woman of color. But Dorothy’s wealth, fame, and success masked a reality fraught with contradiction and illusion. Struggling to find good roles professionally, uncomfortable with her image as a sex goddess, coping with the aftermath of two unhappy marriages and a string of unfulfilling affairs, and overwhelmed with guilt for her disabled daughter, Dorothy found herself emotionally and financially bankrupt—despair that ended in her untimely death. Woven from extensive research and unique interviews, as magnetic as the woman at its heart, Dorothy Dandridge captures this dazzling entertainer in all her complexity: her strength and vulnerability, her joy and her pain, her trials and her triumphs.

Hollywood Gays

Author : Boze Hadleigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Gays written by Boze Hadleigh and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps blow the cover off the gilded cage. It opens the closet door for a look at, and conversation with, ten gay men of the silver screen.

Édith Piaf

Author : David Looseley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781388598
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Édith Piaf written by David Looseley and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an ‘imagined’ Piaf.

Harlequin Presents March 2013 - Bundle 2 of 2

Author : Sharon Kendrick
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460309634
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Harlequin Presents March 2013 - Bundle 2 of 2 written by Sharon Kendrick and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Presents brings you four new titles for one great price, available now for a limited time only from March 1 to March 31! Plus, in this special collection you'll receive 4 additional full-length stories from these acclaimed authors! Escape with brooding tycoons and untamed princes in these four stories. This Harlequin Presents bundle includes A Scandal, A Secret, A Baby by USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick (and bonus story Marriage Scandal, Showbiz Baby), The Fallen Greek Bride by Jane Porter (and bonus story At the Greek Boss's Bidding), The Notorious Gabriel Diaz by Cathy Williams (and bonus story Ruthless Tycoon, Inexperienced Mistress) and Taming the Last Acosta by Susan Stephens (and bonus story Italian Boss, Proud Miss Prim). Look for 8 passionate new stories every month from Harlequin Presents!

The End and the Beginning

Author : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924279
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The End and the Beginning written by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.