Pier Angeli

Author : Jane Allen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 147660357X

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Pier Angeli by Jane Allen Pdf

“In Pier Angeli, a nineteen-year-old Italian girl, Hollywood has found an actress who eludes the town’s traditional classifications and whose unvarnished beauty and instinctive talent have already caused her to be called ‘Little Garbo’”—Theodore Strauss in Collier’s, April 1952. This work is the first full-length biography of actress Anna Maria Pierangeli, from her early life in Italy to her death at the age of 39. She was discovered by Vittorio De Sica and soon after starred in her first film, Domani è troppo tardi (Tomorrow Is Too Late), which began her meteoric rise to fame in Italy. She arrived in Hollywood in 1950 at the age of 18, and the first thing MGM did was change her name to Pier Angeli and predict great things for its newest actress. The book covers her seven year career with MGM, her two unhappy marriages to Vic Damone and Armando Trovajoli, her love for her children Perry and Andrew, her brief and stormy relationship with James Dean, her dependent relationships with her mother and such stars as Kirk Douglas, Richard Attenborough and Debbie Reynolds, and the mystery surrounding her death.

Author : Darwin Porter
Publisher : Blood Moon Productions, Ltd.
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0974811823

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Brando Unzipped by Darwin Porter Pdf

That ongoing, barely under control drama known as Marlon Brando--Hollywood's Ultimate Bad Boy, Megastar, and Sexual Outlaw--with a special focus on his early rise to fame and his social and sexual associations with the A-list legends of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Brando Unzipped is the definitive gossip guide to the late, great actor's life --New York Daily News. Lurid, raunchy, perceptive, and certainly worth reading, it's one of the best show-biz biographies of the year. --London's Sunday Times. Brando Unzipped received an Honorable Mention from Foreword Magazine in its Book of the Year competition, and it won a Silver Ippy award for Best Biography from the Independent Publisher's Association.

Author : Tom Lisanti,Louis Paul
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786411945

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Film Fatales by Tom Lisanti,Louis Paul Pdf

Sean Connery began the sixties spy movie boom playing James Bond in Dr. No and From Russia with Love. Their success inspired every studio in Hollywood and Europe to release everything from serious knockoffs to spoofs on the genre featuring debonair men, futuristic gadgets, exotic locales, and some of the world's most beautiful actresses whose roles ranged from the innocent caught up in a nefarious plot to the femme fatale. Profiled herein are 107 dazzling women, well-known and unknown, who had film and television appearances in the spy genre. They include superstars Doris Day in Caprice, Raquel Welch in Fathom, and Ann-Margret in Murderer's Row; international sex symbols Ursula Andress in Dr. No and Casino Royale, Elke Sommer in Deadlier Than the Male, and Senta Berger in The Spy with My Face; and forgotten lovelies Greta Chi in Fathom, Alizia Gur in From Russia with Love, and Maggie Thrett in Out of Sight. Each profile includes a filmography that lists the actresses' more notable films. Some include the actresses' candid comments and anecdotes about their films and television shows, the people they worked with, and their feelings about acting in the spy genre are offered throughout. A list of websites that provide further information on women in spy films and television is also included.

Author : Rochelle Gordon,Nadia Stiegltz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0743476492

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Love Signs and You by Rochelle Gordon,Nadia Stiegltz Pdf

Love Signs and You is the definitive volume of romantic astrology.

Author : Luca Prono
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313055058

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Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture by Luca Prono Pdf

During the 20th century through today, gay and lesbian artists, writers, political activists, and sports figures contributed their talents to all areas of popular culture. Authors such as E. Lynn Harris and Patricia Highsmith write bestselling novels. Rupert Everett follows in the footsteps of Rock Hudson and others who starred in multimillion dollar films. George Michael and k.d.lang have been the creative forces behind dozens of hit songs, and the TV programs of Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, and the cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy are enjoyed in gay and straight households alike. The Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture identifies the people, films, TV shows, literature, and sports figures that have made significant contributions to both gay and lesbian popular culture, and American popular culture.

Author : John Howlett
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780859658676

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James Dean: Rebel Life by John Howlett Pdf

James Dean died in 1955. The star of three movies, he was aged just 24. Six decades later, the charismatic screen idol has lost none of his power to captivate. Revered by fresh generations of fans born years after his untimely death, the glamor of his limited but incandescent legacy of cinematic classics - East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant - will never fade. Drawn from extensive research and original interviews, James Dean: Rebel Life strips back the hype to reveal the man behind the myth. Filled with the testimonies of the actors, directors and ex-lovers who knew Dean best, and lavishly illustrated with candid photos (from boyhood up to Dean's untimely death) and sumptuous film stills, the book provides a uniquely personal insight into the life and times of Hollywood's tragic leading man - essential reading for fans of every generation.

Author : Karen Pinkus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226668487

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The Montesi Scandal by Karen Pinkus Pdf

Early on a windy morning in April 1953, the body of a young woman washed up on a beach outside of Rome. Her name was Wilma Montesi, and, as the papers reported, she had left her home in the city center a day earlier, alone. The police called her death an accidental drowning. But the public was not convinced. In the cafés around the Via Veneto, people began to speak-of the son of a powerful politician, lavish parties, movie stars, orgies, drugs. How this news item of everyday life exploded into one of the greatest scandals of a modern democracy is the story Karen Pinkus tells in The Montesi Scandal. Wilma's death brought to the surface every simmering element of Italian culture: bitter aspiring actresses, corrupt politicians, nervous Jesuits in sunglasses, jaded princes. Italians of all types lined up to testify-in court or to journalists of varying legitimacy-about the death of the middle-class carpenter's daughter, in the process creating a media frenzy and the modern culture of celebrity. Witnesses sold their stories to the tabloids, only to retract them. They posed for pictures, pretending to shun the spotlight. And they in turn became celebrities in their own right. Pinkus takes us through the alleys and entryways of Rome in the 1950s, linking Wilma's death to the beginnings of the dolce vita, now synonymous with modern Roman life. Pinkus follows the first paparazzi on their scooters as they shoot the protagonists and gives us an insider's view of the stories and trials that came to surround this lonely figure that washed up on the shores of Ostia. Full of the magnificent paparazzi photos of the protagonists in the drama and film stills from the era's landmark movies, The Montesi Scandal joins true crime with "high" culture in an original form, one true to both the period and the cinematic conception of life it created. More than a meditation of the intricate ties among movies, paparazzo photography, and Italian culture, The Montesi Scandal narrates Wilma's story and its characters as the notes for an unrealized film, but one that, as the reader discovers, seems impossible to produce.

Author : Karen Clemens Warrick
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766025373

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James Dean by Karen Clemens Warrick Pdf

A look at the life of an American film legend.

Author : Blum, Daniel
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0819602582

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Screen World Vol. 3 1952 by Blum, Daniel Pdf

Author : James Robert Parish
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118040676

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The Hollywood Book of Breakups by James Robert Parish Pdf

"Half of all marriages end in divorce--and then there are the really unhappy ones." --Joan Rivers Do you suppose that the person who first said "Life is stranger than fiction" might have had Hollywood marriages in mind? Why watch a romantic film starring a leading man and a leading lady when their real-life romances are so much more interesting? It seems that a celebrity's latest film can have a considerably longer life span in the theater than his or her marriage du jour. One would almost think that Tinseltown has come to embrace divorce as an accepted pastime. Some celebrities have seemingly collected spouses over the years, systematically adding notches in their belts of divorces. Cases in point: Zsa Zsa Gabor (nine), Lana Turner (eight), Elizabeth Taylor (nine), and Mickey Rooney (eight). This list appears to make Jennifer Lopez a mere novice with only three marriages, two divorces, and one terminated engagement to date. In The Hollywood Book of Breakups, James Robert Parish looks at scores of hot Hollywood romances that eventually fell apart. From the decade-long union of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman to the "just-for-show" nuptials of Rock Hudson and Phyllis Gates to the four-and-a-half-year marriage of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston to the "other woman" divorce of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Parish covers it all--from the burning embers to the fizzling fires of Hollywood breakups. You couldn't make this stuff up--and James Robert Parish doesn't need to. Hollywood writes its own drama when it comes to scandalous breakups.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : NYPL:33433036434227

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The Film Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118473003

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The New York Times Biographical Service by Anonim Pdf

A compilation of current biographical information of general interest.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1772 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OSU:32436010864526

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Cumulated Index Medicus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192887511

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Fascism, the War, and Structures of Feeling in Italy, 1943-1945 by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi Pdf

On July 25, 1943, news of Mussolini's resignation and subsequent arrest stunned Italians leaving them dumbfounded. After two decades, fascism had fallen without any advance warning. As festive events marked the incredible outcome and reminders of the past were destroyed, an uncontainable joy seemed to pervade Italians. But what did people actually celebrate? How did they understand the bygone dictatorship, which was soon to be reincarnated in the Italian Social Republic (RSI)? Drawing on more than one hundred diaries written by ordinary citizens (and some prominent figures as well) and inspired by Raymond Williams's concept of structures of feeling, the book examines Italians' perspectives on fascism at a very critical moment in their history. With the country mired in a devastating war further complicated by the September 8, 1943 armistice with the Allies and subsequent German occupation—followed by the eruption of an Italian-against-Italian conflict, the switching of alliances, and the declaration of war against Germany on October 13, 1943—the fast pace of history seemed to deflect Italians' attention from their immediate past. Amidst the daily experience of bombings, hunger, displacement, and death, coming to terms with twenty years of dictatorship turned out to be an arduous enterprise. Whether those who had lived under the fascist regime wished 'not to think of it and not to speak any more about it' as philosopher Benedetto Croce maintained, it is hard to ascertain. In truth, little is known of what Italians felt and thought about fascism after its precipitous demise. This book remedies the gap in historical scholarship by assessing how Italians confronted their present and negotiated their past during the two years from the fall of the regime to the definitive defeat of the RSI and the end of the world war in May 1945. By bringing to life the cultural imaginaries and practices of the past, the book raises ostensibly intractable questions on the epochal impact of what often appears as inconsequential: the typically unseen and seemingly banal power of everyday experiences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Community development
ISBN : UCSC:32106011991095

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Journal of Housing by Anonim Pdf