Alexander Walker

Traces the life and career of the popular film actress, describes her major roles, and recounts her work on behalf of UNICEF

Her Real Story

Audrey

Vivien Leigh is best known as the former Mrs. Laurence Olivier; the beautiful but willful Scarlett O'Hara; and the fading southern belle with a tenuous grip on reality, Blanche Du Bois. In life and on the screen, these were her public roles. Walker's excellent biography fills the gaps, giving insights into her private life-into what it must have been like to be Vivien Leigh. Walker (author of Garbo: A Portrait, CH, Mar '81; Dietrich, 1984; and Bette Davis: A Celebration, 1986) is a careful researcher who managed to win the confidence of the right people. His interview subjects include Vivien Leigh's only daughter, Suzanne Farrington; her first agent, John Glidden; and her last husband, Jack Merivale. Vivien is personal without being excessively gossipy, and informative without being pedantic. Walker's book should delight film-goers, theater-goers, and readers curious about prominent people. Leigh's achievements were many, but her personality had its darker side; even her 20 years as half of Britain's reigning theatrical couple ``the Oliviers'' took its toll on her physical and mental health. Amply supplied with photographs of the actress at all stages of her life, Vivien is an engaging book about an engaging figure. Undergraduates and general readers.- J.L. Cohen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Life of Vivien Leigh

Vivien

Emmett J. P. Lundberg

"Living out something you've spent countless hours daydreaming about and wondering about is an experience that isn't easily put into words." - Will Krisanda Finding Masculinity is a collection of stories from a small cross section of the transgender male community that shares insight into the diversity of life experiences of transgender men, beyond the traditional narrative. This anthology examines the many facets of life that transition impacts; transitioning on the job, emotional and spiritual growth, family, navigating the medical community, as well as romantic relationships. The stories within come from scientists, teachers, fathers, veterans, and artists who share how being visible as the masculine humans they identify as has developed, changed, and evolved their sense of masculinity.

Female to Male Transition in Adulthood

Finding Masculinity

Provides an incisive portrait of the complex and contradictory Peter Sellers, based on the reminiscences of friends, colleagues, and family members, detailing his personal life, relationships, personality, and career.

Peter Sellers, the Authorized Biography

Marlene Dietrich

Sybil Taylor

Ulrich Ruchti

Illustrated with eight pages of color and black-and-white photographs, an expanded edition of a study first published in 1971 follows the career and directorial techniques of Stanley Kubrick, including his last picture, Eyes Wide Shut. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Stanley Kubrick, Director

The definitive guide to a Hollywood legend. Few stars are as loved as Audrey Hepburn, today as much as ever. Beautiful, delicate, graceful - but always warm and natural - she stole our hearts. She was also brave, working tirelessly for UNICEF in the face of her own failing health. in this moving and heartwarming biography Alexander Walker traces the extraordinary combination of luck and talent that allowed a fragile little girl,who nearly died in Hitler's occupied Europe, to conquer, in just one year, the New York stage and the Hollywood screen. Walker analyses her ascent to power and world fame and reveals the sadness of her life: two failed marriages, a broken engagement, and the crushing disappointment that occupied her triumph in My Fair Lady. Most importantly of all, this biography reveals what no one has known until now: the truly terrifying family secret that tore Audrey's childhood apart and kept her forever silent about her parents.

Audrey: Her Real Story

A serious and in-depth look at one of the great legends of Hollywood by the London film critic and author of Audrey: Her Real Story. Elizabeth Taylor was perhaps the most “public” of the great stars: an Oscar-winning actress who lived her entire life in the glare of the spotlights. Much has been written about her, but now—with the readability, sensitivity, and thoroughness that have made his previous biographies bestsellers—Alexander Walker explores the roots of Taylor’s extraordinary personality and extraordinary life. Here is a life to rival the very movies she played in, told with immense candor, wit, and sympathy: from her privileged London childhood, the enormous influence of her strong-willed mother, and her swift rise to stardom in such films as National Velvet, A Place in the Sun, and the catastrophe-ridden Cleopatra; to her six husbands, her desperate need to love and be loved, her obsession with jewelry, and the amazing resilience that helped her weather not only condemnation for “the most public adultery in history,” but also dramatic illnesses that brought her to the verge of death—and, according to her, beyond. Using scores of unpublished documents and interviews with those who knew Taylor best, as well as his own meetings with her over thirty years, Alexander Walker recreates the comedies and tragedies in the life of a woman whose rewards and scandals have become the stuff of legend.

The Life of Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth

Robyn Karney

The medium of film has reflected and shaped our culture since the turn of the 20th century. This 2002 edition of Cinema Year by Year takes the reader on a voyage through the world of movies, from their birth in the 1890s across a timespan of over 100 years. The text details key movie ev ents, facts and figures, while the easy-to-use ready-reference pages pinpoint the movie highlights of each year.

Cinema Year by Year, 2003

Rachel Roberts

The Journals of Rachel Roberts

No Bells on Sunday

Being a Geographical, Statistical, Agricultaural, Commercial, and Political Account of that Country, Adapted for the General Reader, the Merchant, and the Colonist

Colombia

Audrey Hepburn

(Applause Books). After fifty-five years in the film industry, during which she made over ninety films, Bette Davis was considered the indisputable grand dame of Hollywood. Alexander Walker, who knew Bette Davis for twenty years, has pieced together her early life through to her promising career on the New York stage. The subsequent film career was by no means an instant success. The turbulent relationship between Bette Davis and Warner Brothers is legendary but gradually she managed to seize the opportunities to show her astonishing range. In this book, Alexander Walker identifies the extraordinary qualities that enabled Bette Davis to survive the Hollywood system and become one of its most durable actresses.

A Celebration

Bette Davis

Presents a life of the American actress, discussing her film career, marriages, accomplishments as a businesswoman, and later work as an AIDs activist.

"This book tells how Stanley Kubrick makes films--how he translates his won vision of a story into cinematic terms, finding original ways to use camera angles and camera movement, lighting, composition, depth, and other techniques; and how he edits to achieve jarring juxtapositions, suspense and surprise, a heightened sense of time, and a perfectly crystallized total concept. The book also shows how his films relate to one another. The more than 350 photographs illustrate the visual flow of Paths of Glory, Dr. Strange love, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, as well as the methods used in Killer's Kiss, The Killing, and Lolita."--back cover.

Stanley Kubrick Directs

How the Talkies Came to Stay

The Shattered Silents

Colombia: siendo una relacion geografica, topografica, agricultural, comercial, politica de aquel pays (etc.)

Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman

Preceded by a Critical View of the General Hypotheses Respecting Beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, Etc., and Followed by a Similar View of the Hypotheses of Beauty in Sculpture and Painting, by Leonardo Da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, Etc

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