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Author : Jane Ellen Wayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Golden Girls of MGM written by Jane Ellen Wayne and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Ellen Wayne
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Golden Girls of MGM written by Jane Ellen Wayne and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne presents intimate insider biographies of the most radiant stars in movie mogul Louis B. Mayer's galaxy--their careers, the affairs, the heartbreak and the scandals. of photos.
Author : Jane Ellen Wayne
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786713035
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Golden Girls of MGM written by Jane Ellen Wayne and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garbo and Crawford. Ava, Hedy, Judy, Liz epitomized Hollywood's golden era. With a trembling lip or sultry eye, with a tear or song or husky whisper, these women held moviegoers across America in their sway from the hard times of the 1930s through the booming postwar years to the early sixties. They were royalty and box office, and led pampered public lives—furs, jewels, designer gowns; limousines, flash bulbs, handsome escorts—that captured the national imagination. They also signed seven-year contracts with a morals clause, and the more they slipped, the more the secret abortions, efficient cover-ups, legal legerdemain, and dropped charges bound them to the wizard in their Oz, Louis B. Mayer. The slips are here along with the successes. Here, too, are the Blonde Bombshell Jean Harlow, Million-Dollar Mermaid Esther Williams, Sweater Girl Lana Turner, and bad girl Ava Gardner ("She can't act. She can't talk. She's terrific," declared Mayer after her screen test). From Jeanette MacDonald and Norma Shearer to Princess Grace and Dame Elizabeth Taylor, the sixteen portraits in this lively, photograph-filled volume, each accompanied by the star's filmography, tell the tales that have long lay hidden behind the gossip and the glories of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glamorous golden girls.
Author : Michelle Vogel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781600470875
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Blondes written by Michelle Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood Blondes: Golden Girls of the Silver Screen examines the lives and careers of Tinseltown's most memorable blonde bombshells. Twenty-two classic actresses are profiled including Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow, Carole Landis, Betty Grable, Marie McDonald, Thelma Todd, Lana Turner, Jayne Mansfield, Barbara Payton, Veronica Lake, Grace Kelly, Alice Faye, Mae West, Carole Lombard, and Judy Holliday. Each chapter has a complete filmography. There are more than one hundred rare photographs featured throughout the book.
Author : Peter H. Brown
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312501617
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The MGM Girls written by Peter H. Brown and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the day-to-day lives, the fights, and the feuds of the young actresses-turned-glamour queens, includes some of Hollywood's greatest stars, such as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and Elizabeth Taylor, whose careers were charted by MGM
Author : Sarah Zettel
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375983198
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Golden Girl written by Sarah Zettel and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callie LeRoux has put her grimy, harrowing trip from the depths of the Dust Bowl behind her. Her life is a different kind of exciting now: she works at a major motion picture studio among powerful studio executives and stylish stars. Still nothing can distract her from her true goal. With help from her friend Jack and guidance from the great singer Paul Robeson, she will find her missing mother. But as a child of prophecy and daughter of the legitimate heir to the Seelie throne, Callie poses a huge threat to the warring fae factions who've attached themselves to the most powerful people in Hollywood . . . and they
Author : Davis, Ronald L.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604737073
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Van Johnson written by Davis, Ronald L. and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only full-length biography of this immensely popular screen star of the 1940s and 1950s
Author : Christopher Styler
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1368068901
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Golden Girls Cookbook written by Christopher Styler and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with innovative recipes by renowned chef Christopher Styler, and beautiful photos by NYT food photographer Andrew Scrivani, plus fun quotes, info, and photos from the show. There will be Italian meals like Clams Fra Diavlo in Sophia's chapter, and Southern food like honey-bourbon glazed carrots in Blanche's, and of course some amazing cheesecakes. And what Golden Girls cookbook would be complete without Rose's favorite Scandinavian dishes, like St. Olaf Friendship cake, a simple, buttery treat. From drinks and appetizers, to salads and mains, there is something to delight every fan in this witty and approachable cookbook.
Author : Jane Ellen Wayne
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781861057013
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Golden Guys of MGM written by Jane Ellen Wayne and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mischievous misfits, indiscriminate lovers, closet homosexuals, spoiled scoundrels and handsome legends: 'The Golden Guys of MGM' uncovers the real lives of America's royalty during its heyday. Clark Gable, John Gilbert, Val Johnson, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra and Spencer Tracy were the most admired and beloved actors in the history of Hollywood. Under the watchful eye of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer potentate Louis B Mayer they were pampered and protected, moulded and sculptured, glamorised and perfected. There were no secrets at MGM - who was sleeping with whom was well known to all. Spencer Tracy, John Barrymore and Robert Walker were dedicated alcoholics; Tracy, a married Catholic, had affairs with most of his leading ladies; Clark Gable had too many love affairs to mention, declaring he had 'had every one' of the MGM girls; while Sinatra romanced Lana Turner, Marilyn Maxwell, Marlene Dietrich and Ava Gardner while he was married. The Golden Guys of MGM tells the fascinating inside story of these dazzling silver-screen legends.
Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496817346
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book That Was Entertainment written by Bernard F. Dick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s, culminating in the notorious 1970 MGM auction when Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, Charlton Heston's chariot from Ben-Hur, and Fred Astaire's trousers and dress shirt from Royal Wedding vanished to the highest bidders. That Was Entertainment uniquely reconstructs the life of Arthur Freed, whose unit at MGM became the gold standard against which the musicals of other studios were measured. Without Freed, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, Cyd Charisse, Arlene Dahl, Vera-Ellen, Lucille Bremer, Gloria DeHaven, Howard Keel, and June Allyson would never have had the signature films that established them as movie legends. MGM's past is its present. No other studio produced such a range of musicals that are still shown today on television and all of which are covered in this volume, from integrated musicals in which song and dance were seamlessly embedded in the plot (Meet Me in St. Louis and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) to revues (The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and Ziegfeld Follies); original musicals (Singin' in the Rain, Easter Parade, and It's Always Fair Weather); adaptations of Broadway shows (Girl Crazy, On the Town, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, Brigadoon, Kismet, and Bells Are Ringing); musical versions of novels and plays (Gigi, The Pirate, and Summer Holiday); operettas (the films of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy); mythico-historical biographies of composers (Johann Strauss Jr. in The Great Waltz and Sigmund Romberg in Deep in My Heart); and musicals featuring songwriting teams (Rodgers and Hart in Words and Music and Kalmar and Ruby in Three Little Words), opera stars (Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso and Marjorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody), and pop singers (Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me). Also covered is the water ballet musical--in a class by itself--with Esther Williams starring as MGM's resident mermaid. This is a book for longtime lovers of the movie musical and those discovering the genre for the first time.
Author : Melanie Gall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493069047
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, and the Golden Age of Hollywood written by Melanie Gall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1930s was a magical age in Hollywood, with Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis and Clark Gable lighting up the silver screen. But Deanna Durbin's fame surpassed them all. Born in Canada, Deanna was “discovered” by starmaker Eddie Cantor, producer Joe Pasternak and director Henry Koster, and she quickly became the world’s most celebrated star. She saved Universal Studios from ruin, she was a favourite of Winston Churchill and Anne Frank, and she became the highest-paid woman in America. From the start, Deanna’s life was irrevocably connected with that of another young ingénue, Judy Garland. Deanna and Judy were wildly talented, ambitious, and strong-willed young women who followed vastly different paths to stardom. While fame was thrust upon Deanna, Judy spent years struggling for success and their early friendship soon turned into a lifelong rivalry. Despite her tragic life, Judy Garland is remembered as an entertainment icon, beloved by millions. However, Deanna Durbin—who turned her back on Hollywood at the age of twenty-eight to pursue love and happiness—has been largely forgotten. But Deanna’s legacy endures, and this first-ever biography tells of how her gorgeous voice and winning charm vaulted her to worldwide fame and how a thirteen-year-old girl transformed moviemaking and influenced a generation of fans as the first teenage superstar.
Author : Shirley Eaton
Publisher : B.T. Batsford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Golden Girl written by Shirley Eaton and published by B.T. Batsford. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a sideways look at this "Bond Girl's" remarkable career.
Author : Richard Stirling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429943874
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Julie Andrews written by Richard Stirling and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, unequaled by any in her time. In My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title character in Mary Poppins, she won an Academy Award. And, in 1965, The Sound of Music made her the most famous woman in the world and rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three years later, the disastrous Star! almost put the studio back under, and the leading lady of both films fell as spectacularly as she had risen. Her film career seemed over. Yet Julie Andrews survived, with what Moss Hart, director of My Fair Lady, called "that terrible British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India." Victor/Victoria, directed by her second husband, Blake Edwards, reinvented her screen image---but its stage version in 1997 led to the devastating loss of her defining talent, her singing voice. Against all odds, she has fought back again, with leading roles in The Princess Diaries and Shrek 2. The real story of bandy-legged little Julia Wells from Walton-on-Thames is even more extraordinary; fresh details of her family background have only recently come to light. This is the first completely new biography of Julie Andrews as artist, wife, and mother in over thirty-five years---combining the author's interviews with the star and his wide-ranging and riveting research. It is a frank but affectionate portrait of an enduring icon of stage and screen, who was made a Dame in the Millenium Honours List. Once dubbed "the last of the really great broads" by Paul Newman, she was the only actress in the 2002 BBC poll The 100 Greatest Britons. But who was Dame Julie, and who is she now? This is her story.
Author : Eve Golden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Platinum Girl written by Eve Golden and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930, after the public had seen Jean Harlow in Howard Hughes' WWI air ace epic, Hell's Angels, the nation's beauty parlors were jammed with women demanding to be transformed into "platinum blondes." The phrase was invented by a studio press agent, and the look was the work of Hollywood's newest, most explosive bombshell. This book explores the woman behind the legends and the scandals. The brief life of Jean Harlow is a story of success, of a triumphal struggle with Hollywood and the consequences of rapid fame. This is an important book about one of Hollywood's most extraordinary personalities. -- Publisher description.
Author : Elvi Rhodes
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Golden Girls written by Elvi Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Golden Books
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 0593380460
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Santa's Little Helpers (Tom & Jerry) written by Golden Books and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MGM's classic cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry are back in this action-packed Christmas Little Golden Book perfect for boys and girls aged 2-5 and lifelong fans of the series right on time for the new film. It's Christmas Eve, but Tom and Jerry still don't get along. They can't even decorate the house together. After a fight over what lights to put on the roof throws them in Santa Claus's sleigh without Santa, Tom and Jerry must work together to save Christmas for everyone. Kids ages 2-5 will love this epic Tom and Jerry Christmas adventure.
Author : Howard Gutner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493038583
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book MGM Style written by Howard Gutner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MGM Style is an overview of the career and achievements of Hollywood’s most famous art director. Cedric Gibbons was the supervisor in charge of the art department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studios from its inception in 1924 until Gibbons chose to retire in 1956. Lavishly illustrated with over 175 pristine duotone photographs, the vast majority of which have never before been published, this is the first volume to trace Gibbons’ trendsetting career. At its height in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Gibbons was regularly acknowledged by his peers as having shaped the craft of art direction in American film; his work was recognized as representing the finest in motion picture sets and settings. Gibbons and his associates constructed the villages, towns, streets, squares and edifices that later appeared in hundreds of films, and whose mixed architecture stood in for army camps and the wild west, Dutch New York and Dickensian London, ancient China and modern Japan. Inspired by the work of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus masters, as well as the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris and Frank Lloyd Wright’s experiments with open planning, Gibbons championed the notion that movie decor should move beyond the commercial framework of the popular cinema
