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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory biography of the enduringly popular John Wayne that draws on more than 100 interviews as well as exclusive access to the files of Wayne's film production company to answer the question why he became and remains an iconic American figure"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America as a teenaged acrobat to find fame and fortune, but he was always haunted by his past. His father was a feckless alcoholic, and his mother was committed to an asylum when Archie was eleven years old. He believed her to be dead until he was informed she was alive when he was thirty-one years old. Because of this experience, Grant would have difficulty forming close attachments throughout his life. He...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of World War Two, Charlie Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold. Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women. He had been married three times and had had numerous affairs. In the 1940s he was the subject of a paternity...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Traces the 40-year friendship between Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart, offering insights into their differences and commonalities while exploring how their friendship shaped such memorable collaborations as The Grapes of Wrath and Twelve Angry Men. --Publisher
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