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xi, 556 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"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...
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658 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"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"--
The New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne: authoritative and enormously engaging ... Eyman takes you through Wayne's life, his death, and his legend in a detailed, remarkably knowledgeable...
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416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), portraits ; 24 cm
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English
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"The story of Charlie Chaplin's years of self-imposed exile from the United States, when he had become a pariah during the 1950s Red Scare. While living abroad he made his last, and by general agreement, worst films, only to return home years later to a triumphant reception"--
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...
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367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years. They became friends and then roommates as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they roomed together again. Between them they made such memorable films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, The Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life,...
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