Suzanne Finstad

A definitive portrait of the acclaimed film actress describes Wood's youth as an abused and exploited child star and troubled teen, her years as a top movie star, her romances, her two marriages to Robert Wagner, and her tragic drowning death, drawing on nearly four hundred interviews with friends, family, colleagues, lovers, and others. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

The Biography of Natalie Wood

Natasha

The myth-shattering account of the most famous and most taboo love story in rock-and-roll history Child Bride reveals the hidden story of rock icon Elvis Presley’s love affair with fourteen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the ninth-grader he wooed as a G.I. in Germany and cloistered at Graceland before marrying her to fulfill a promise to her starstruck parents. Award-winning biographer Suzanne Finstad perceptively pieces together the clues from candid interviews with all the Presley intimates—including Priscilla herself, along with hundreds of sources who have never before spoken publicly—to uncover the surprising truths behind the legend of Elvis and Priscilla, a tumultuous tale of sexual attraction and obsession, heartbreak and loss. Child Bride, the only major biography of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, unveils the controversial child-woman who evolved from a lonely and sexually precocious teenager kept by the King of Rock and Roll into a shrewd businesswoman in control of the multimillion-dollar Elvis Presley empire, a rags-to-riches saga of secrets and betrayals that began when Priscilla was only three years old.

The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley

Child Bride

"Natalie Wood has been hailed alongside Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor as one of the top three female movie stars in film history. We watched her mature on the movie screen before our eyes in classics such as Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, and West Side Story. But the story of what she endured, of what her life was like when the doors of the soundstages closed, had long been obscured. Suzanne Finstad conducted nearly four hundred interviews with Natalie Wood's family, close friends, legendary costars, lovers, film crews, and virtually everyone connected to her death. She reveals painful truths in Wood's complex relationships with James Dean, Frank Sinatra, Warren Beatty, and, of course, Robert Wagner. In this updated edition, Finstad will share her explosive findings from the last two decades. With her unprecedented access to the LAPD's "Murder Book," ignored by the original investigators, and new witnesses who have never spoken publicly, Finstad uncovers what really happened to Natalie Wood on that fateful boating trip in 1981 with Wagner and Christopher Walken."--Provided by publisher.

The Complete Biography

Natalie Wood

Heir Not Apparent

Despite his much publicised love life, Warren Beatty has always guarded his privacy zealously, giving few interviews and asking his friends not to talk about him to the press. But now acclaimed biographer Suzanne Finstad has been able to obtain unprecedented interviews with friends such as Mike Nichols, Gary Hart and Senator George McGovern as well as former lovers like Joan Collins and Jane Fonda and to gain access to rare photographs, letters and diaries. The result is a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of Hollywood's key figures - actor, writer director, producer and, of course, legendary lothario. Finstad describes Beatty's upbringing, his early days playing the piano in New York cocktail lounges, his complex relationship with his older sister, Shirley MacLaine, and his romances with a iconic actresses from Joan Collins and Nathalie Wood to Julie Christie, Diane Keaton, Cher and Annette Bening, the woman he finally married. She also writes with skill and insight about Beatty's movies, from Splendour in the Grass, Bonnie and Clyde (the film that made him and legend) Heaven Can Wait and Reds, and about his flirtations with American politics.

A Private Man

Warren Beatty

A definitive portrait of the acclaimed film actress describe Wood's youth as an abused and exploited child star and troubled teen, her years as a top movie star, her romances, her two marriages to Robert Wagner, and her tragic drowning death, drawing on nearly four hundred interviews with friends, family, colleagues, lovers, and others. 75,000 first printing.

Recounts Priscilla Presley's life as Elvis's "child bride," revealing the often dark side of their sensational marriage, including Elvis's kinky sexual proclivities and his constant demands on her appearance. By the author of Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

An account of the murder of former beauty queen Barbara Piotrowski describes how her fitness junkie, Texas millionaire husband harassed his wife after she left him and then hired a gunman to kill her. Reprint. K.

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