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718 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Based on new and revelatory material from Brando's own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before." --
"When Marlon Brando burst onto stage and screen in the late 1940s, he fundamentally changed the way other actors perceived their...
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xxviii, 621 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image. Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine Hepburn: a Connecticut Yankee, outspoken and elegant, she wore pants whatever the occasion and bristled at Hollywood glitter. So captivating was her image that...
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484 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Despite all the gossip, the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very human woman has never been captured. Biographer Mann uses untapped sources and conversations to show how she ignited the sexual revolution with her on- and off-screen passions, helped kick down the studio system by taking control of her own career, and practically invented the big business of celebrity star-making. And he tells the full truth without losing Taylor's...
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