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  • Film's First Family

    The Untold Story of the Costellos

    Series series Screen Classics
    "A fascinating [and] beautifully written portrait of a tempestuous family that played a pivotal role in the development of American film" (Vanda Krefft, author of The Man Who Made the Movies).Adultery, secret marriages, divorce, custody battles, suicide attempts, alcoholism—the trials and tribulations of the Costellos were as riveting as any Hollywood feature film. Written with unprecedented ... Leer más

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  • Barrymore

    The Spectacular, Tumultuous Life of America's Prince of Players

    Series series Screen Classics
    While many know the Barrymore name due to actress and talk show host Drew Barrymore, the family's rich legacy on the stage and screen dates back to the nineteenth century. Perhaps no one has understood the pressures of a family dynasty more keenly than John Barrymore, the youngest of patriarch Maurice Barrymore's three children.Despite an increasingly successful career as an illustrator, John was ... Leer más

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  • A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

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    “860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century.Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress ... Leer más

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  • Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923

    Dorothy Parker holds a place in history as one of New Yorks most beloved writers. Now, for the first time in nearly a century, the public is invited to enjoy Mrs. Parkers sharp wit and biting commentary on the Jazz Age hits and flops in this first-ever published collection of her groundbreaking Broadway reviews.Starting when she was twenty-four at Vanity Fair as New Yorks only female theatre ... Leer más

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  • Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

    The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    "Epic indeed, this is the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, plain and simple. There's no reason to own another." — Library JournalThe Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." These works and more elevated F. Scott Fitzgerald to his place as one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. After struggling to become a ... Leer más

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    Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. Despite his early success with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald battled against failure and disappointment.This book, by the acclaimed biographer of Hemingway, is the first to analyze frankly the meaning as well as the events of ... Leer más

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