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Author : Gene Ringgold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Films of Bette Davis written by Gene Ringgold and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780762436880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Bette Davis written by Richard Schickel and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Until you're known in my profession as a monster, you're not a star,” Bette Davis once said. Let's just say in Hollywood she was considered the ultimate star. The Academy Award-winning actress was one of the movies' most riveting and volatile personalities both on and off the screen. She comes to life in the pages of this lavish, fully illustrated tribute produced in conjunction with her estate. Bette Davis remains one of the most acclaimed and well-known stars in the history of film. Breaking new ground for women, she was a fighter who took on the Hollywood establishment at the drop of a dime. She reveled in lifelong feuds (such as with arch nemesis and co-star Joan Crawford). She was a mother, wife, and friend. She was also a no-nonsense New Englander who happened to have more talent than the movies seemed able to contain. Her personality leapt off the screen and earned her an unprecedented number of high-profile nominations and awards for her work in films like Jezebel, Dark Victory, All About Eve, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? As the epitaph on Davis's tombstone reads, “She did it the hard way.” Through a biography, comprehensive filmography, and hundreds of rare photos, readers will find out why.
Author : Gene Ringgold
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Films of Bette Davis written by Gene Ringgold and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1966 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the movie actress' career and shows scenes from each of her films.
Author : Gene Ringgold
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Complete Films of Bette Davis written by Gene Ringgold and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter McNally
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786434996
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Bette Davis written by Peter McNally and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bette Davis, whose career spanned almost 50 years and covered theatre, radio, TV and motion pictures, was at one time the first lady of the big screen. Working with such storied performers as Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, and Joan Crawford, and directors Edmund Goulding, William Wyler and Robert Aldrich, Bette Davis provided some of the most memorable performances in movie history. This volume contains detailed analyses of Bette Davis' top twelve films spanning 1938 to 1987 and including The Letter, All About Eve, The Little Foxes, Jezebel, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Whales of August. Each film is discussed in depth, with an examination of its script, direction, camerawork and performances, particularly as they relate to Davis's work. A second group of films, memorable largely for Davis's performance rather than the overall success of the work, are also examined. Special emphasis is placed on the way Davis viewed her own work as well as the detrimental effect her devotion to her career had on her personal life. Appendices contain a list of her marriages and children; her Oscar nominations; a discussion of Davis's missed opportunities; and a partial chronology of her films.
Author : Julia A. Stern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022681386X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Bette Davis Black and White written by Julia A. Stern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Black and white -- Little Foxes and little brown wrens -- The poetics of color in Jezebel -- Melodramas of blood in In This Our Life -- The whiteness of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? -- Bette Davis black and white.
Author : Bette Davis
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316441295
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Lonely Life written by Bette Davis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1962, The Lonely Life is legendary silver screen actress Bette Davis's lively and riveting account of her life, loves, and marriages--now in ebook for the first time, and updated with an afterword she wrote just before her death. As Davis says in the opening lines of her classic memoir: "I have always been driven by some distant music--a battle hymn, no doubt--for I have been at war from the beginning. I rode into the field with sword gleaming and standard flying. I was going to conquer the world." A bold, unapologetic book by a unique and formidable woman, The Lonely Life details the first fifty-plus years of Davis's life--her Yankee childhood, her rise to stardom in Hollywood, the birth of her beloved children, and the uncompromising choices she made along the way to succeed. The book was updated with new material in the 1980s, bringing the story up to the end of Davis's life--all the heartbreak, all the drama, and all the love she experienced at every stage of her extraordinary life. The Lonely Life proves conclusively that the legendary image of Bette Davis is not a fable but a marvelous reality.
Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847396984
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Girl Who Walked Home Alone written by Charlotte Chandler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Just this short list of Bette Davis' films gives an unmistakable sense of the role she played in twentieth-century cinema as one of the finest performers in Hollywood history. Drawing on an extensive series of conversations that took place during the last decade of Bette Davis' life, this biography draws heavily on the actresses own words. Looking back over the decades, from her teenage decision to become an actress to the pain and outrage over her daughter's bitter portrayal of her, Davis speaks with extraordinary candour. She explains how her father's abandonment of her a child reverberated through her four marriages, and discusses the persistent Hollywood legend that she was difficult to work with. Immersing readers in the drama and glamour of movie-making's golden age, The Girl Who Walked Home Alone is a startling portrait of an enduring icon.
Author : Bette Davis
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316441260
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book This 'n That written by Bette Davis and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, a collection of anecdotes as well as opinions pro and con on a wide range of subjects by legendary actress Bette Davis--now in ebook for the first time! A woman of strong appetites and opinions, Bette Davis minces no words. In frank, no nonsense terms she talks about the stroke that nearly killed her, and inspires us with the story of her subsequent recovery from cancer--a lively and encouraging account shot through with the star's unique blend of spunk and wit. Davis was famous for being as unsparing of herself as she was of others. Among the "others" of this book are President Ronald Reagan, who was a contract player at Warner Bros. when she was; Joan Crawford, her costar in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?; Humphrey Bogart; Marilyn Monroe; Elizabeth Taylor; and Helen Hayes, Bette's costar in her first film after her illness, Murder with Mirrors. She also talks about her deep friendship with her longtime assistant, Kathryn Sermak, who nursed Davis back to health after her stroke and ushered her back into acting when Davis's doctors thought all hope was lost. As Davis says, "If everyone likes you, you're doing your job wrong." This is a unique and controversial book by one of the most incandescent and unconventional acting talents of all time, as magnetic and supremely talented as the lady herself.
Author : Mary Orr
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822214298
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (142 download)
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
Author : Ed Sikov
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805088632
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Dark Victory written by Ed Sikov and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Bette Davis, focusing on her acting career, drawing from interviews with friends, directors, and admirers, archival research, and a new look at her films to provide insights into her personal and professional life.
Author : Norman Corwin
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573618054
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The World of Carl Sandburg written by Norman Corwin and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a tribute to Carl Sandburg, and surveys the heritage he left and the history he made.
Author : Kathryn Sermak
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316507822
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Miss D and Me written by Kathryn Sermak and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star's harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear. Miss D and Me is a story of two powerful women, one at the end of her life and the other at the beginning. As Bette Davis aged she was looking for an assistant, but she found something more than that in Kathryn: a loyal and loving buddy, a co-conspirator in her jokes and schemes, and a competent assistant whom she trained never to miss a detail. But Miss D had strict rules for Kathryn about everything from how to eat a salad to how to wear her hair...even the spelling of Kathryn's name was changed (adding the "y") per Miss D's request. Throughout their time together, the two grew incredibly close, and Kathryn had a front-row seat to the larger-than-life Davis's career renaissance in her later years, as well as to the humiliating public betrayal that nearly killed Miss D. The frame of this story is a four-day road trip Kathryn and Davis took from Biarritz to Paris, during which they disentangled their ferocious dependency. Miss D and Me is a window into the world of the unique and formidable Bette Davis, told by the person who perhaps knew her best of all.
Author : Outlet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517175163
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Super Duper Bloopers written by Outlet and published by . This book was released on 1988-12-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shaun Considine
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1631681079
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Bette & Joan written by Shaun Considine and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joint biography of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford follows Hollywood's most epic rivalry throughout their careers. They only worked together once, in the classic spine-chiller "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" and their violent hatred of each other as rival sisters was no act. In real life they fought over as many man as they did film roles. The story of these two dueling divas is hilarious, monstrous, and tragic, and Shaun Considine’s account of it is exhaustive, explosive, and unsparing. “Rip-roaring. A definite ten.” - New York Magazine.
Author : Gene Ringgold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806509532
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Bette Davis, Her Films and Career written by Gene Ringgold and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stills, publicity shots, film synopses, and critical reviews trace Bette Davis' career from 1931 to 1980
Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081121852X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Night of the Iguana written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based. Williams wrote: “This is a play about love in its purest terms.” It is also Williams’s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas women’s college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (“the world’s oldest living and practicing poet”), a family of grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night. This is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright, the author’s original Foreword, the short story “The Night of the Iguana” which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch. “I’m tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquent—yeah, that’s what I said, I shouted! All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent and, by God, I will not and cannot continue to conduct services in praise and worship of this…this…this angry, petulant old man.” —The Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana
