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Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1944

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1878

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Languages : en
Pages : 2102

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Author: Stephen Michael Shearer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429908203
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 808

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“A fascinating biography that re-creates Hollywood’s Golden Age of Glamour” as it recounts the life of the star and inventor (Publishers Weekly). Hedy Lamarr’s exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria’s munitions barons, a friend of Mussolini’s who hid his Jewish heritage to become an “honorary Aryan” at the onset of World War II, Lamarr fled Europe for Hollywood, where she was transformed into one of cinema’s most glamorous stars, appearing opposite such actors as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and James Stewart. As her career faded, she went from one husband to the next, her personal troubles and legal woes casting a shadow over her phenomenal intelligence and former image. Stephen Michael Shearer separates the truth from the rumors regarding the life of Hedy Lamarr, and highlights her astonishing role as inventor of a technology that has become an essential part of everything from military weaponry to today’s cell phones. Praise for Beautiful “In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr’s movies.” —Jeanine Basinger, The Wall Street Journal “Much more than a standard Hollywood biography.” —Edge Magazine

Author: Connecticut. Secretary of the State
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 874

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Author: Michael L. LaBlanc
Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Chronicles the evolution of four major U.S. spectator sports: baseball, basketball, football, and hockey.

Author: Roberto L. Quercetani
Publisher: Roberto Vallardi
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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The author of this book made his debut as an athleticshistorian in 1948 aged 26. When in close co-operationwith his friend Donald H. Potts he edited A Handbook onOlympic Games Track and Field Athletics', a statisticalwork which among other things offered the first-everWorld List of the 100 best track and field performancesof all time ......

Author: Guy A. Marco
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 978

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This alphabetical reference covers the entire spectrum of the recording of sound, from Edison's experimental cylinders to contemporary high technology. The major focus is on the recorded sound industry in the US, with additional material on Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The coverage is particularly strong on the earliest periods of recorded sound history--1877-1948, the 78 rpm era and 1949-1982, the LP era. In addition to performers and their work, entries also cover important commercial organizations, individuals who made significant technical contributions, societies and associations, sound archives and libraries, magazines, catalogs, award winners, technical topics, special and foreign terms, copyright laws, and other areas of interest. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Languages : en
Pages : 3216

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