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Download or read book Betty Grable written by Tom McGee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE authoritative, comprehensive biography of the woman whose pin-up provided the inspiration for American soldiers to win World War II. (Oh, and she was a very talented dancer, actress & thespian as well.)
Download or read book Betty Grable written by Doug Warren and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty Grable: The Reluctant Movie Queen is a fascinating and intimate account of the famous star who was for many years the highest-paid woman in America and a favorite pin-up all over the world. Filled with fascinating and intimate accounts from many who knew her well, this publication is a well-documented and eminently readable biography of the sparkling, complex personality of one of the best-loved stars in Hollywood's history.
Book Synopsis Six Degrees of Betty Grable by : B. Harris
Download or read book Six Degrees of Betty Grable written by B. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Degrees of Betty Grable: Movies, Music, and Murder is an abridged version of Betty Grable's life story told over a period of 55 years, 1945-2000 by six fictional characters whose lives were touched by the most famous pin-up girl of WWII. Each degree is a self-contained character study but every character who is the focus of one degree has a way of showing up as a secondary character in someone else's story. Betty Grable provides the ties that bind them. The characters include a five-year-old boy who develops an obsession for the blonde beauty, a big-boned, five-foot-ten girl who aspires to be the next Betty Grable, a young high school English teacher who has a clandestine affair with a married colleague, a former female movie extra who danced at the charity ball in Gone with the Wind, a partially paralyzed former cowboy star, and a psychopathic killer. The text is chocked full of movie trivia, nostalgia, and dark humor. Something for everyone.
Download or read book Betty Grable written by Larry Billman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993-09-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work provides a comprehensive record of the life and career of Betty Grable. The book begins with a biography that presents and discusses the most significant events in Grable's life. The chronology that follows summarizes her career in capsule form. The succeeding chapters provide a detailed account of Grable's performances in various media, including films, television, radio, stage, nightclubs, videos, and records. The entries in these sections succinctly present the facts concerning each of Grable's performances and offer insightful commentary. The volume concludes with a list of Grable memorabilia, a section of miscellaneous information, and an annotated bibliography of books and articles containing extensive or unique material about Grable and her career.
Download or read book Pin-up written by Spero Pastos and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of the musical comedy star who epitomized the wholesome yet sexy girl-next-door during WWI and the post-war era. Sadly, her real-life was in stark contrast to that image. Her ambitious stage mother abandoned her marriage and firstborn, taking Betty to Hollywood at age 12, where she lied about the girls age, falsified documents, and kept her out of school in order to make her a star. Betty Grable was well-liked by co-workers and treated directors and cameramen with respect, but her tirades were known and feared. She always claimed that she felt more at ease with "ordinary people" and would often befriend fans, chorus performers and strangers alike, which is one reason why her fans adored her so much. Despite being worshipped by thousands of lonely G.I.s, reigning as the number-one box-office draw in the world, and her standing as highest-paid entertainer in the United States during the 40s, the smiling saucy pin-up girl was a fiction, with an on-screen attitude that has been copied ever since.
Book Synopsis Betty Grable Paper Dolls by : Lee Lunzer
Download or read book Betty Grable Paper Dolls written by Lee Lunzer and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Hollywood's best known stars, Betty Grable, was the subject of many paper doll books. This 1943 reproduction is a favourite among collectors. The red, white and blue covers feature pretty dolls, and the inside pages are nicely designed with well-drawn and painted clothes.
Book Synopsis Betty Grable Paper Dolls by : Tom Tierney
Download or read book Betty Grable Paper Dolls written by Tom Tierney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sparkling tribute features 2 dolls and 29 costumes from the famous pin-up girl's movie career, including apparel by such noted designers as Orry-Kelly, Charles LeMaire, and René Hubert.
Book Synopsis The Boy with the Betty Grable Legs by : Skip E. Lowe
Download or read book The Boy with the Betty Grable Legs written by Skip E. Lowe and published by Belle Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Way of Life written by Joan Crawford and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “Grand Hotel” to “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?,” Joan Crawford played some of the finest parts Hollywood had to offer, establishing a reputation as the most spectacular diva on the silver screen. Even when the cameras quit rolling, her life never stopped being over-the-top. In My Way of Life, a cult classic since it was first published in the early 1970’s, Crawford shares her secrets. Part memoir, part self-help book, part guide to being fabulous, My Way of Life advises the reader on everything from throwing a small dinner party for eighteen to getting the most out of a marriage. Featuring tips on fashion, makeup, etiquette and everything in between, it is an irresistible look at a bygone era, when movie stars were pure class, and Crawford was at the top of the heap.
Download or read book Pin-up written by Spero Pastos and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of one of the greatest movie stars of the 1940s, revealing the dreams and heartbreaks of Betty Grable's career and personal life, from the little girl ruthlessly torn from her family to her years as a cancer patient
Book Synopsis The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It by : Sharrie Williams
Download or read book The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It written by Sharrie Williams and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, when a kitchen stove fire singed his sister Mabel's lashes and brows, Tom Lyle Williams watched in fascination as she performed a 'secret of the harem'-mixing petroleum jelly with coal dust and ash from a burnt cork and apply it to her lashes and brows. Mabel's simple beauty trick ignited Tom Lyle's imagination and he started what would become a billion-dollar business, one that remains a viable American icon after nearly a century. He named it Maybelline in her honor.Throughout the 20th century, the Maybelline Company inflated, collapsed, endured, and thrived in tandem with the nation's upheavals-as did the family that nurtured it. Setting up shop first in Chicago, Williams later, to avoid unwanted scrutiny of his private life, cloistered himself behind the gates of his Rudolph Valentino Villa and ran his empire from a distance.Now after nearly a century of silence, this true story celebrates the life of an American entrepreneur, a man whose vision rocketed him to success along with the woman held in his orbit, Evelyn Boecher-who became his lifelong fascination and muse. Captivated by her 'roaring charisma,' he affectionately called her the 'real Miss Maybelline' and based many of his advertising campaigns on the woman she represented: commandingly beautiful, hard-boiled and daring. Evelyn masterminded a life of vanity, but would fall prey to fortune hunters and a mysterious murder that even today remains unsolved.A fascinating and inspiring story of ambition, luck, secrecy-and surprisingly, above all, love and forgiveness, a tale both epic and intimate, alive with the clash, the hustle, the music, and dance of American enterprise.
Book Synopsis Trumpet Blues by : Peter J. Levinson
Download or read book Trumpet Blues written by Peter J. Levinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swing is back in style, and with it a renewed interest in the Big Band Era. And few players dominated that era more than Harry James, whose soaring trumpet solos and romantic hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Now, Peter J. Levinson, who knew Harry James personally, has written a revealing biography of this jazz icon, based on nearly 200 interviews with musicians and friends. Harry James led a truly colorful life, and in Trumpet Blues Levinson captures it all. Beginning with James's childhood in a traveling circus, we follow the young trumpeter's meteoric rise in the 1930s and witness his electrifying performances with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. We see how James formed his own band in 1939, an incubator for many pop music stars of the 1940s and '50s, including Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Dick Haymes, Helen Forrest, and Kitty Kallen. Combined with James's superb musicianship, peerless trumpet technique and talented sidemen, this stellar group dominated the war years and the immediate post-war period. And James himself, especially after his marriage to film goddess Betty Grable, became one of America's most famous personalities and lived like true Hollywood royalty. Levinson describes their twenty-two-year marriage with insight and sympathy. But he shows how James's marriage--and his triumphant late-1950s comeback in Nevada's casinos--were slowly undermined by his penchant for compulsive gambling, womanizing, and alcoholism. He gives us the inside story of James's sybaritic life style, and probes the profound psychological reasons for James's destructive behavior. The first biography ever written on Harry James, Trumpet Blues is a scintillating portrait of Swing's brightest star--his life, his loves, and the music that defined an era.
Book Synopsis What Dreams Were Made Of by : Sean Griffin
Download or read book What Dreams Were Made Of written by Sean Griffin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of optimism and concern, patriotism and cynicism. What Dreams Were Made Of examines the performers who helped define American cinema in the 1940s, a decade of rapid and repeated upheaval for Hollywood and the United States. Through insightful discussions of key films as well as studio publicity and fan magazines, the essays in this collection analyze how these actors and actresses helped lift spirits during World War II, whether in service comedies, combat films, or escapist musicals. The contributors, all major writers on the stars and movies of this period, also explore how cultural shifts after the war forced many stars to adjust to new outlooks and attitudes, particularly in film noir. Together, they represented the hopes and fears of a nation during turbulent times, enacting on the silver screen the dreams of millions of moviegoers.
Book Synopsis Betty Grable Letter and Signed Photograph by : Betty Grable
Download or read book Betty Grable Letter and Signed Photograph written by Betty Grable and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Alice Faye written by Jane Lenz Elder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Faye's sweet demeanor, sultry glances, and velvety voice were her signatures. Her haunting rendition of “You'll Never Know” has never been surpassed by any other singer. Fans adored her in such films as Alexander's Ragtime Band, Rose of Washington Square, Tin Pan Alley, Week-End in Havana, and Hello, Frisco, Hello. In the 1930s and 1940s she reigned as queen of 20th Century Fox musicals. She co-starred with such legends as Shirley Temple, Tyrone Power, Carmen Miranda, and Don Ameche and was voted the number-one box-office attraction of 1940, placing ahead of Bette Davis and Myrna Loy. To a select cult, she remains a beloved star. In 1945 at the pinnacle of her career she chose to walk out on her Fox contract. This remarkable episode is unlike any other in the heyday of the big-studio system. Her daring departure from films left Fox mogul Darryl F. Zanuck and the rest of the movie industry flabbergasted. For years she had skirmished with him over her roles, her health, and her private life. His heavy-handed film editing of her fine work in Otto Preminger's drama Fallen Angel, a role she had fought for, relegated Faye to the shadows so that Zanuck could showcase the younger Linda Darnell. After leaving Fox, Faye (1915–1998) devoted herself to her marriage to radio star Phil Harris, to motherhood, and to a second career on radio in the Phil Harris–Alice Faye Show, broadcast for eight years. She happily gave up films in favor of the independence and self-esteem that she discovered in private life. She willingly freed herself of the “star-treatment” that debilitated so many of her contemporaries. In the 1980s she emerged as a spokeswoman for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, touring America to encourage senior citizens to make their lives more meaningful and vital. Before Betty Grable, before Marilyn Monroe—Alice Faye was first in the lineup of 20th Century Fox blondes. This book captures her special essence, her work in film, radio, and popular music, and indeed her graceful survival beyond the silver screen.
Book Synopsis Betty Grable 172 Success Facts - Everything You Need to Know about Betty Grable by : Joseph Petersen
Download or read book Betty Grable 172 Success Facts - Everything You Need to Know about Betty Grable written by Joseph Petersen and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Betty Grable in a whole new way. This book is your ultimate resource for Betty Grable. Here you will find the most up-to-date 172 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Betty Grable's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Washington Heights, Manhattan - In film and literature, Dinner theater - Popularity, The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, 1944 in film - Notable films released in 1944, Fox Film Corporation, Jackie Gleason - Career, The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend - Cast, The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953 film) - Cast, Jean Acker - Early life and career, List of people on the cover of Time magazine (1940s) - 1948, Meet Me After the Show, Clive Hirschhorn - Early life and journalism, How to Be Very, Very Popular - Cast, Betty Grable - Early career (1930ndash;1939), Bob Mackie - Notable Mackie clothing wearers, Preston Sturges - Independence and decline, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anti-Japanese propaganda - Home fires, Three for the Show - Cast, St. Louis Walk of Fame - Inductees, 20th Century-Fox, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Twentieth Century Fox - Twentieth Century/Fox merger, The Dolly Sisters (film), When My Baby Smiles at Me (film) - Cast, How to Marry a Millionaire (TV series), Sheree North - 20th Century-Fox, Call Me Mister, 1949 in film - Notable films released in 1949, Niagara (1953 film), Esther Williams - Acting, Three for the Show - Soundtrack, Three for the Show - Plot, List of American actresses - G, June Haver - Career, Wabash Avenue (film) - Cast, Springtime in the Rockies - Note, 1940 in film - Notable films released in 1940, and much more...
