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I said yes to everything : a memoir
An Academy Award-winning actress and former Vogue \"It Girl\" describes her rise to fame and the subsequent destruction of her career caused by being added to the Hollywood blacklist and how she eventually rebuilt her life and career after being exonerated.
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Shining in Shadows
In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen.
Shining in Shadowsexamines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a turbulent decade for the film industry and for America itself. Perhaps reflecting our own cultural fragmentation and uncertainty, Hollywood's star personas sent mixed messages about Americans' identities and ideals. Disheveled men-children like Will Ferrell and Jack Black shared the multiplex with debonair old-Hollywood standbys like George Clooney and Morgan Freeman. Iconic roles for women ranged from Renee Zellweger's dithering romantics to Tina Fey's neurotic professionals to Hilary Swank's vulnerable boyish characters. And in this age of reality TV and TMZ, stars like Jennifer Aniston and \"Brangelina\" became more famous for their real-life romantic dramas-at the same time that former tabloid fixtures like Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. reinvented themselves as dependable leading men. With a multigenerational, international cast of stars, this collection presents a fascinating composite portrait of Hollywood stardom today.
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Ernie Kovacs and Early TV Comedy
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Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a
talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through
seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known
chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early
Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars
dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899-1983) back into the
spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial,
and thoroughly modern woman.
Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin
and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with
Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon,
Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning
three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every
week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She
bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and
flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate
love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals.
Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson turned down a
million-dollar-a-year contract. After a wild ride making
unforgettable movies with some of Hollywood's most colorful
characters--including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick
director Erich von Stroheim--she was a million dollars in debt.
Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge,
beginning her long second act.
Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions
and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods
activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor;
and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she
continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and
abroad. Though she had one of Hollywood's most famous exit
lines--\"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up\"--the
real Gloria Swanson never looked back.
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American cocktail : a \colored girl\ in the world
This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating African American woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, and free-spirited provocateur, Anita Reynolds was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an \"American cocktail.\".
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New Constellations
American culture changed radically over the course of the 1960s, and the culture of Hollywood was no exception. The film industry began the decade confidently churning out epic spectacles and lavish musicals, but became flummoxed as new aesthetics and modes of production emerged, and low-budget youth pictures likeEasy Riderbecame commercial hits.New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960stells the story of the final glory days of the studio system and changing conceptions of stardom, considering such Hollywood icons as Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman alongside such hallmarks of youth culture as Mia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman. Others, like Sidney Poitier and Peter Sellers, took advantage of the developing independent and international film markets to craft truly groundbreaking screen personae. And some were simply \"famous for being famous,\" with celebrities like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Edie Sedgwick paving the way for today's reality stars.
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