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2010.
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English
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" Drawing on a series of recordings made over many years, beginning in the mid-1970s, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Chandler has written the most intimate and personal biography ever published of Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn. Introduced by George Cukor, who directed Hepburn in such classic films as Little Women, The Philadelphia Story, and Adam's Rib, Chandler socialized with Hepburn at the Cukor estate, where the star was then living in a...
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Marlene Dietrich began her career in her native Berlin as a model, then as a stage and screen actress during the silent era, and became a star with the international success "The Blue Angel." Then, under the watchful eye of director and mentor Josef von Sternberg, she became one of the brightest stars in Hollywood. Charlotte Chandler, who spoke with Dietrich in her Paris apartment in the mid-1970s, relies extensively on the star's own words to reveal...
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Pub. Date
2009.
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477 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Acclaimed biographer Charlotte Chandler draws on a series of interviews she conducted with legendary actress Mae West just months before her death in 1980. From their first meeting, where West held out a diamond-covered hand in greeting and lamented her interviewer's lack of jewels, to their farewell, with the star still gamely offering advice on how to attract men, West and Chandler developed a warm rapport that glows on every page of this biography....
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