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Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star

Author : Thomas Gladysz
Publisher : Pandorasbox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692151020
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star written by Thomas Gladysz and published by Pandorasbox Press. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star brings together 15 years work by Thomas Gladysz, the Director of the Louise Brooks Society. Gathered here are a selection of his articles, essays, and blogs about the silent film star. The actress' best known films--Beggars of Life, Pandora's Box, and Diary of a Lost Girl--are discussed, as are many other little known aspects of Brooks' legendary career. These pieces range from the local ("Louise Brooks, at the corner of Brooklyn Avenue and 16th Street") to the worldly ("Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan"), from the provocative ("A Girl in Every Port The Birth of Lulu?") to the poignant ("Homage to George W. Lighton of Kentucky, idealistic silent film buff who perished in the Spanish Civil War"), from the quirky ("Louise Brooks' First Television Broadcast") to the surprising ("A Lost Girl, a Fake Diary, and a Forgotten Author"). Also included are related interviews with actor Paul McGann, singer- songwriter Rufus Wainwright, and novelist Laura Moriarty, author of The Chaperone.... with dozens of illustrations.

Louise Brooks

Author : Peter Cowie
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louise Brooks written by Peter Cowie and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Brooks has become one of the most spectacular icons of early cinema. Her career began as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies, and soon she was receiving film offers from both MGM and Paramount, mingling with the high and mighty of Hollywood, having a passionate affair with Charlie Chaplin, spending weekends at William Randolph Hearst's castle and captivating such men as William S. Paley, the founder of CBS. Cowie celebrates Lulu with rare film footage stills, private photos, letters, interviews, and text, exploring this influential cult figure and abiding symbol of the Jazz Age.

The Diary of a Lost Girl (Louise Brooks Edition)

Author : Thomas Gladysz
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557508487
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of a Lost Girl (Louise Brooks Edition) written by Thomas Gladysz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1929 Louise Brooks film, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL, is based on a bestselling book first published in Germany in 1905. Though little known today, it was a literary sensation at the beginning of the 20th Century. Was it â€“ as many believed â€“ the real-life diary of a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution? Or a sensational and clever fake, one of the first novels of its kind? This controversial and often censored work inspired a sequel, a parody, a play, a score of imitators, and two silent films. It was also translated into 14 languages, and sold more than 1,200,000 copies. This new edition of the original English language translation brings this important book back into print in the United States after more than 100 years. It includes an introduction by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society, detailing the book's remarkable history. This special "Louise Brooks Edition" also includes more than three dozen vintage illustrations. More at www.pandorasbox.com/diary.html

Dear Stinkpot

Author : Jan Wahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593937072
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Dear Stinkpot written by Jan Wahl and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the HARDBACK version. LOUISE BROOKS and Jan Wahl had a special, roller-coaster relationship lasting twenty-odd years. He met the legendary star when he was a student; it turned out each of them hoped to be a writer. This intense friendship continued by letter and in person. The letters from Louise reveal much of her inner personality - her insights and anecdotes make fascinating, compelling reading.

Lulu in Hollywood

Author : Louise Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816637317
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Lulu in Hollywood written by Louise Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Louise Brooks (1906-1985), one of the most famous actresses of the silent era, was renowned as much for her rebellion against Hollywood as for her performances in such classics as Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl. Collected here are eight autobiographical essays by Brooks, vividly describing her childhood in Kansas, her early career as a Denishawn dancer and Ziegfeld Follies "Glorified Girl," and her friendships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W. C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart and others."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Chaperone

Author : Laura Moriarty
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594631433
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The Chaperone written by Laura Moriarty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in the 1920s and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever. For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive. Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s, ’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.

Louise in Love

Author : Mary Jo Bang
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137609
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Louise in Love written by Mary Jo Bang and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of interconnected poems journeys into the dreamlike world of Louise and follows her ever-evolving relationships with an array of enigmatic characters, including her lover, Ham.

The Parade's Gone By

Author : Kevin Brownlow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520030688
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Parade's Gone By written by Kevin Brownlow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well illustrated book on history of silent movies

Beat Memories

Author : Sarah Greenough
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beat Memories written by Sarah Greenough and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most visionary writers of his generation, Ginsberg was also a photographer. From 1953 to 1963 he frequently had his camera close by when he was with friends in his apartment or traveling with them, ready to record 'certain moments in eternity, ' as he wrote. For years many of these photographs languished among Ginsberg's papers. When he finally recovered them in the 1980s, he reprinted them and added handwritten narrative inscriptions. Inspired by this early work, he began to photograph again, recording both long-time friends and new acquaintances. Some eighty of these photographs are collected and brilliantly reproduced in this book, which also features the first scholarly essay on Ginsberg's photographs, written by Sarah Greenough, addressing the relationship of his photographs to his poetry and to works by other photographers of the period. Ginsberg's photographs depict many of his contemporaries, including his closest friends and lovers, such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky. They capture days walking the streets of Manhattan, San Francisco, and Paris as well as grand tours of Africa and Asia."--Jacket flap.

When Stars Are Scattered

Author : Victoria Jamieson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525553924
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book When Stars Are Scattered written by Victoria Jamieson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl. Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day. Heartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create a sense of family and home in the most difficult of settings. It's an intimate, important, unforgettable look at the day-to-day life of a refugee, as told to New York Times Bestselling author/artist Victoria Jamieson by Omar Mohamed, the Somali man who lived the story.

Writing Out the Storm

Author : Barbara Abercrombie
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312285456
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Writing Out the Storm written by Barbara Abercrombie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful and deeply inspirational handbook is for anyone coping with serious illness or injury--be it theirs or that of a loved one--who wants and needs to help themselves through the healing process. Offering her own experience with breast cancer, as well as stories from other authors who have suffered from illnesses or severe injuries--from Stephen King to Lance Armstrong--Abercrombie encourages readers to write what is in their hearts and to benefit from the power of shared experience. Using writing as therapy, Writing Out the Storm is a book about healing the soul.

People Will Talk

Author : John Kobal
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book People Will Talk written by John Kobal and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1985 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the stars interviewed are LGBT: Brooks, Hepburn, Lupino, Stanwyck, Bankhead, Hurrell, Hermes Pan.

Louise Brooks

Author : Jean-Maximillien De La Croix de Lafayette
Publisher : Brand Nu Words
ISBN 13 : 9781257783670
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Louise Brooks written by Jean-Maximillien De La Croix de Lafayette and published by Brand Nu Words. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book could infuriate Louise Brook's fans and admirers. It is totally different from all the other books and the glowing essays on this most unusual star, simply because it provides the most detailed and intimate depiction of the life of the REAL Louise Brooks, not the shining star on the silver screen camouflaged by camera's tricks and Hollywood's accessories, and the magic of German film directors and cameramen, but Louise Brooks in real life. Everything you wanted to know about her affairs, her lovers, her scandalous life as a failed wife, as a call girl, as a courtesan, as a Madam in New York, and a manipulative femme fatale, her ups and downs, the way she saw the world and rebelled against it, her misfortune in Hollywood, her bizarre behavior, her numerous marriages (legal and illegal) and divorces, betrayal of her husbands and lovers, how she used men to reach her goals, her adultery, addiction, nudity and the dark shadows in her hidden life.

Red Star

Author : Alexander Bogdanov
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025301350X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Red Star written by Alexander Bogdanov and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984-06-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An Earth-man’s journey to the planet Mars, where he is treated to a wondrous vision of a communist future, complete with flying cars and 3D color movies.” —Wonders & Marvels A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this arresting science fiction novel by Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), one of the early organizers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik party. The red star is Mars, but it is also the dream set to paper of the society that could emerge on earth after the dual victory of the socialist and scientific-technical revolutions. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, Bogdanov sketches out the problems that will face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist. “[A] surprisingly moving story.” —The New Yorker “The contemporary reader will marvel at [Bogdanov’s] foresight: nuclear fusion and propulsion, atomic weaponry and fallout, computers, blood transfusions, and (almost) unisexuality.” —Choice “Bogdanov’s novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it.” —Slavic Review

Anna May Wong

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789882208698
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Anna May Wong written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a biography of Anna May Wong who is undoubtedly, one of the best known and most popular Chinese-American actresses ever to have graced the silver screen. Between 1919 and 1960 she starred in over 50 movies.

Garbo

Author : Barry Paris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816641826
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Garbo written by Barry Paris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and the Devil, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Ninotchka. In this richly illustrated volume, renowned biographer Barry Paris offers the definitive biography of this fascinating and complex woman -- from her hardscrabble childhood in Sweden to her arrival in Hollywood at the age of nineteen, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her unintentional retirement from filmmaking at the height of her fame, from the new life she crafted for herself to her surprising, and failed, plans for a comeback. Drawing on hitherto unavailable material, including one hundred hours of tape-recorded conversations, fifty years of correspondence, and interviews with Garbo's surviving friends and family, Paris reveals the real woman behind the enigma.

Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six

Author : Kirk Henderson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1645367002
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six written by Kirk Henderson and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six presents the biographies of six movie actresses from the 1920s to the 1970s, with a single actress representing her decade of activity: Louise Brooks 1920s, Jean Harlow 1930s, Hedy Lamarr 1940s, Barbara Payton 1950s, Jean Seberg 1960s, and Sondra Locke 1970s. The synchronicity between the lives of these women is phenomenal, and their stories are as dramatic and exciting as any to come from that town, stretching all the way from complete ruination to thrilling triumph. Along the way, the story of movies in the Golden Age unfolds as six movie actresses try to survive in the most artificial place on Earth. The power elite of Hollywood could transform unknowns into movie stars or erase the famous into oblivion. Since beauty has its own innate power, it is inevitable these two entities would face off.