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The Peter Lawford Story

Author : Patricia Lawford Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632200880
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book The Peter Lawford Story written by Patricia Lawford Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the brother in law to JFK and a member of the Rat Pack, Peter Lawford was one of America's most acclaimed movie stars. Lawford led an extraordinary life. His story, as told by the woman who knew him best, is the always candid, sometimes shocking unveiling of the most intriguing show business personalities and significant political events of our time. Now fully updated and revised for 2014 this is a must read for anyone interested in Hollywood, film, and celebrity gossip. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Peter Lawford

Author : James Spada
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553297140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Peter Lawford written by James Spada and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess comes a fascinating, heartrending story of a deeply troubled man, whose life was a dizzying whirl of sex, scandal and secrets even the tabloids dared not print. "A compelling morality tale . . . compulsive reading".--Los Angeles Times. Photographs.

Mother Bitch

Author : Lady May Lawford
Publisher : Spi Books
ISBN 13 : 9781561711529
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Mother Bitch written by Lady May Lawford and published by Spi Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expose+a7 of the Kennedy clan, Britain's royal family, and actor Peter Lawford discusses such figures as Bugsy Siegel, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, DeGaulle, and Mussolini. Original.

The Fixers

Author : E.J. Fleming
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454954
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Fixers written by E.J. Fleming and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of Hollywood and little-remembered even there, but as General Manager and Head of Publicity for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, they lorded over all the stars in Hollywood's golden age from the 1920s through the 1940s--including legends like Garbo, Dietrich, Gable and Garland. When MGM stars found themselves in trouble, it was Eddie and Howard who took care of them--solved their problems, hid their crimes, and kept their secrets. They were "the Fixers." At a time when image meant everything and the stars were worth millions to the studios that owned them, Mannix and Strickling were the most important men at MGM. Through a complex web of contacts in every arena, from reporters and doctors to corrupt police and district attorneys, they covered up some of the most notorious crimes and scandals in Hollywood history, keeping stars out of jail and, more importantly, their names out of the papers. They handled problems as diverse as the murder of Paul Bern (husband of MGM's biggest star, Jean Harlow), the studio-directed drug addictions of Judy Garland, the murder of Ted Healy (creator of The Three Stooges) at the hands of Wallace Beery, and arranging for an unmarried Loretta Young to adopt her own child--a child fathered by a married Clark Gable. Through exhaustive research and interviews with contemporaries, this is the never-before-told story of Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling. The dual biography describes how a mob-related New Jersey laborer and the quiet son of a grocer became the most powerful men at the biggest studio in the world.

Bitch!

Author : Buddy Galon
Publisher : Branden Books
ISBN 13 : 9780828321174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Bitch! written by Buddy Galon and published by Branden Books. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Lady Lawford - "Bitch!", is derived from a quote by Lady Lawford: "I have been called a bitch by the Aga Khan, by the Duke of Windsor, by Winston Churchill, King Farouk and by old Joe Kennedy. At least I have been called a bitch by the best!" The situations May got into were not always of such a serious nature, for she loved life, parties and people. She was a good and loyal friend -- but woe to those who found themselves on her private black list. Her family was surely irritated by her many scrapes and the countless Cadillacs she smashed up by driving them through the back door of her garage. But to those who were not tied to her by blood relationships, all these extravaganzas were merely a source of laughter and added to her indomitably cheerful character.

Mr. S

Author : George Jacobs
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 006191388X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Mr. S written by George Jacobs and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-04-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra, by former valet-aide George Jacobs with an oh-so-able assist by William Stadiem, has at least five quotable and shocking remarks about the famous on every page. The fifteen years Jacobs toiled for Frank produces a classic of its genre -- a gold-star gossip-lover's dream.... "The rest is showbiz history as it was, and only Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, and Betty Bacall are spared. Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Juliet Prowse, Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Mia Farrow, Elvis Presley, Swifty Lazar, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr., Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Jimmy van Heusen, Edie Goetz, Peter Lawford, and all of the Kennedys come in for heaping portions of 'deep dish,' served hot. Sordid, trashy, funny, and so rat-a-tat with its smart inside info and hip instant analysis that some of it seems too good to be true....

His Way

Author : Kitty Kelley
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553386182
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book His Way written by Kitty Kelley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday This is the book that Frank Sinatra tried—but failed—to keep from publication, and it’s easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra to expose the well-hidden side of one of the most celebrated—and elusive—public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps, and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra’s life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, friends). The result is a stunning, often shocking exposé of a man as tortured as he was talented, as driven to self-destruction as he was to success. Featuring a new afterword by the author, this fully documented, highly detailed biography—filled with revealing anecdotes—is the penetrating story of the explosively controversial and undeniably multitalented legend who ruled the entertainment industry for fifty years and continues to fascinate to this day. Praise for His Way “The most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time.”—The New York Times “A compelling page-turner . . . Kitty Kelley’s book has made all future Sinatra biographies virtually redundant.”—Los Angeles Herald Examiner

The Thin Man

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667621114
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Thin Man written by Dashiell Hammett and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, made famouos by the series of movies based on it starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. The story is set in New York City during the Christmas season of 1932, in the last days of Prohibition in the United States. Nick Charles, a retired private detective, and Nora, his socialite wife, become embroiled in a mystery.

Rat Pack Confidential

Author : Shawn Levy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1841150010
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Rat Pack Confidential written by Shawn Levy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1999 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the 'Rat Pack' - Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop, this is the brilliant story of their rise and fall, and their connections with the Kennedys and the Mafia.

Sinatra

Author : J. Randy Taraborrelli
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1455530581
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Sinatra written by J. Randy Taraborrelli and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taraborrelli is known for capturing and penning the untold stories of icons such as the Hiltons, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Diana Ross and the Kennedys and has written a page-turning biography of an extremely talented, sometimes troubled, always fascinating man: the one and only Frank Sinatra. In 1997, Taraborrelli's bestselling Sinatra: Behind the Legend captivated audiences with a never-before seen look at the life of an icon through six years of research and over 425 interviews with associates, friends and lovers. Now, Taraborrelli is back with a completely new and updated lens. Fans of Sinatra--old and new--will be able to delve into the private life and controversy of a musician whose career spans decades. From show business, struggles with depression, his many romances and attaining the American dream, Sinatra's story delivers a captivating and humanizing portrait of the legend for a new age.

Symptoms of Withdrawal

Author : Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060732486
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Symptoms of Withdrawal written by Christopher Kennedy Lawford and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into enormous privilege as well as burdened by gut-wrenching family tragedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford now shares his life story, offering a rare glimpse into the private worlds of the rich and famous of both Washington politics and the Hollywood elite. A triumphantly inspiring memoir, the first from a Kennedy family member since Rose Kennedy's 1974 autobiography, Lawford's Symptoms of Withdrawal tells the bittersweet truth about life inside America's greatest family legacy. As the firstborn child of famed Rat Pack actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, sister to John F. Kennedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford grew up with presidents and movie stars as close relatives and personal friends. Lawford recalls Marilyn Monroe teaching him to dance the twist in his living room when he was still a toddler, being awakened late at night by his uncle Jack to hear him announce his candidacy for president, being perched atop a high-roller craps table in Las Vegas while Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack swapped jokes and threw dice, and other treasured memories of his youth as part of America's royal family. In spite of this seemingly idyllic childhood, Lawford's early life was marked by the traumatic assassinations of his beloved uncles Jack and Bobby, and he soon succumbed to the burgeoning drug scene of the 1970s during his teen years. With compelling realism mixed with equal doses of self-deprecating wit, youthful bravado, and hard-earned humility, Symptoms of Withdrawal chronicles Lawford's deep and long descent into near-fatal drug and alcohol addiction, and his subsequent formidable path back to the sobriety he has preserved for the past twenty years. Symptoms of Withdrawal is a poignantly honest portrayal of Lawford's life as a Kennedy, a journey overflowing with hilarious insider anecdotes, heartbreaking accounts of Lawford's addictions to narcoticsas well as to celebrity and, ultimately, the redemption he found by asserting his own independence. In this groundbreakingly courageous and exceptionally well-written memoir, Lawford steps forward to rise above the buried pain that first led to his addiction, and today lives mindfully by his time-tested mantra: "We are only as sick as the secrets we keep." Symptoms of Withdrawal keeps no secrets and is a compelling testament to the power of truth.

Ava Gardner

Author : Ava Gardner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471101169
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Ava Gardner written by Ava Gardner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava Gardner was one of the most glamorous and famous stars in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Her list of films includes The Killers, Showboat and Mogambo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, and her co-stars included Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Charlton Heston, and Richard Burton - the A-list of male Hollywood stars. Married three times - to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra - the first two lasted only about a year each whilst her marriage to Sinatra lasted several. She had a long-running affair with Howard Hughes, and a briefer one with George C. Scott, among others. In Ava Gardner, she has much to say about her husbands and lovers, and some of her co-stars,all of whom get Gardner's unflinchingly honest treatment. Ava Gardner is irresistibly candid and surprising. She began the book because, as she told Evans, 'it's either write the book or sell the jewels and I'm kinda fond of the jewels.' At the time of their collaboration Gardner was living in London, where she had lived for decades, smoking and drinking heavily. Having suffered a stroke that damaged the left side of her face and her left arm she had trouble sleeping and was often depressed - the glamorous wardrobes replaced by grey. Her story could itself have been depressing except for her wit and wickedness, which are on full display in this book. This book tells the story of her life as she wanted to tell it. Ava Gardner is the autobiography that Ava Gardner began with writer Peter Evans in 1988. She never finished it and decided against publishing it because of its frankness. She later collaborated on a tamer autobiography, which was published at her death in 1990. After Gardner's death, her estate authorised the book to be published much as she and Evans had originally conceived it.

Bombshell

Author : Mike Rothmiller
Publisher : Ad Lib Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913543609
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Bombshell written by Mike Rothmiller and published by Ad Lib Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Bobby called. He’s coming to California. He wants to see me.’ Drawing on secret police files, Marilyn Monroe's private diary and never before published first-hand testimony, this book proves that Robert Kennedy was directly responsible for her death. It details the legendary star's tumultuous personal involvement with him and his brother, President John Kennedy, and how they sought to silence her. The new evidence and testimony is provided by Mike Rothmiller who, as a detective of the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID) of the LAPD, had direct personal access to hundreds of secret LAPD files on exactly what happened at Marilyn Monroe’s Californian home on August 5, 1962. With his training and investigator’s knowledge, Rothmiller used that secret information to get to the heart of the matter, to the people who were there the night Marilyn died – two of whom played major roles in the cover-up – and the wider conspiracy to protect the Kennedys at all costs. There will be those with doubts, but to them, the lawman – who directed international intelligence operations targeting organized crime – says the printed, forensic and oral evidence are totally convincing. He insists: ‘If I presented my evidence in any court of law, I’d get a conviction.’

The Kennedys in Hollywood

Author : Lawrence J. Quirk
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780815412960
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Kennedys in Hollywood written by Lawrence J. Quirk and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-time Hollywood reporter and writer, Quirk has used his knowledge and friendship with the Kennedys and many film stars to create an engrossing saga of America's most revered dynasty.

Sinatra and the Jack Pack

Author : Michael Sheridan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510703713
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Sinatra and the Jack Pack written by Michael Sheridan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller Frank Sinatra desperately wanted to be part of John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s gang. He had his own famed “Rat Pack,” made up of hard drinking, womanizing individuals like himself—guys like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Peter Lawford—but the guy “Ol’ Blue Eyes” really wanted to hang with was Lawford’s brother-in-law, the real chairman of the board, John F. Kennedy. In Sinatra and the Jack Pack, Michael Sheridan delves deep into the acclaimed singer’s relationship with the former president. He shares how Sinatra emerged from a working class Italian family and carved out a unique place for himself in American culture, and how Kennedy, also of immigrant stock, came from a privileged background of which the young Frank could only have dreamed. By the time the men met in the 1950s, both were thriving—and both liked the good life. They bonded over their mutual ability to attract beautiful women, male admirers, and adoring acolytes. They also shared a scandalous secret: each had dubious relationships with the mafia. It had promoted Frank’s career and helped Kennedy buy votes. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had, over two decades, compiled detailed and damning dossiers on their activities. From all accounts the friendship thrived. Then, suddenly, in March 1962, Frank was abruptly ejected from JFK’s gang. This unique volume tells why. It will release shortly after a television documentary inspired by the book airs, is filled with a beloved cast of characters, and is the compelling, untold story of a tumultuous relationship between two American icons. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Living Age

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Burt Lancaster

Author : Kate Buford
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781312001
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Burt Lancaster written by Kate Buford and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough, iron-jawed star of films such as Gunfight at the OK Corral and Airport. But as this superbly readable and insightful biography demonstrates, he was an actor with much broader ambitions – brilliantly realised in Visconti’s The Leopard – as well as the founder of the first actor-led production company in Hollywood. Lancaster’s liberal political views led not only to frequent clashes with the House Un-American Activities Committee and a voluminous FBI file, but also a private life that was colourful even by Hollywood standards. Although a devoted father and husband (to three wives), the actor took numerous lovers – of both sexes. In his sexual tastes as in his choice of roles, he defied classification. Kate Buford’s definitive biography offers a full, frank, sensitive and compelling portrait of the star of Atlantic City, From Here to Eternity and Elmer Gantry (for which he won a Best Actor Oscar). Lancaster emerges as a man of restless energy, relentless curiosity and continual development as an actor: a star every bit as interesting offscreen as on. As one American reviewer put it: ‘Not many film stars receive first-class biographies; Burt Lancaster not only deserved one, he got one.’ Acclaimed biographer Kate Buford has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio in the United States since 1994.