Author: Sharon Farrell
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781477511114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This memoir from veteran motion picture and television actress, Sharon Farrell covers her fifty plus years' career as well as her personal life with husbands and lovers both famous and infamous. It is a story replete with scenes of humor and drama, pathos and tragedy. This is a true tale of a "Good Girl" from the Mid-west going bad in Hollywood!!!
Sharon Farrell Hollywood Princess from Sioux City, Iowa
Author: Sharon Farrell
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781477511114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This memoir from veteran motion picture and television actress, Sharon Farrell covers her fifty plus years' career as well as her personal life with husbands and lovers both famous and infamous. It is a story replete with scenes of humor and drama, pathos and tragedy. This is a true tale of a "Good Girl" from the Mid-west going bad in Hollywood!!!
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781477511114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This memoir from veteran motion picture and television actress, Sharon Farrell covers her fifty plus years' career as well as her personal life with husbands and lovers both famous and infamous. It is a story replete with scenes of humor and drama, pathos and tragedy. This is a true tale of a "Good Girl" from the Mid-west going bad in Hollywood!!!
A Girl's Story
Author: Sara Whitney Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484905418
Category : Muncie (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A Girl's Story is a harrowing, yet often humorous, coming of age tale of an Indiana girl who tackles many issues of contemporary relevance, including sexual harassment, racial discrimination, eating disorders, and rape.The Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, the incipient women's movement, and the Beatles set the stage for A Girl's Story. The early Sixties was a precarious time for many of the Baby Boomers. They enjoyed more presperity than any previous generation, yet many of the young people were not prepared for the freedom they demanded.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484905418
Category : Muncie (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A Girl's Story is a harrowing, yet often humorous, coming of age tale of an Indiana girl who tackles many issues of contemporary relevance, including sexual harassment, racial discrimination, eating disorders, and rape.The Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, the incipient women's movement, and the Beatles set the stage for A Girl's Story. The early Sixties was a precarious time for many of the Baby Boomers. They enjoyed more presperity than any previous generation, yet many of the young people were not prepared for the freedom they demanded.
Beery Family History
Author: William Beery
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Also includes some descendants of Otto Beery. He was born in 1859 at Langnau, Berne, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States ca. 1885. He married Mary McCleary in 1890 at Passaic, New Jersey. They had five children, 1891-1906. He died in 1918 at Wallington, New Jersey.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Also includes some descendants of Otto Beery. He was born in 1859 at Langnau, Berne, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States ca. 1885. He married Mary McCleary in 1890 at Passaic, New Jersey. They had five children, 1891-1906. He died in 1918 at Wallington, New Jersey.
George Orwell
Author: Stephen Ingle
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719032332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This work assesses George Orwell's political writing, examining how his democratic socialism developed and changed in the 1930s and 40s. The book aims to determine whether Orwells' preoccupations form a common thread of coherent political philosophy.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719032332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This work assesses George Orwell's political writing, examining how his democratic socialism developed and changed in the 1930s and 40s. The book aims to determine whether Orwells' preoccupations form a common thread of coherent political philosophy.
Orwell Reconsidered
Author: Stephen Ingle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000692000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists, commentators and politicians, and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society. Stephen Ingle explores Orwell’s character, his life and his beliefs by guiding the reader through the main events, private and public, that shaped his life and major works. This includes his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War as well as the writing of classics like Animal Farm and 1984. The book also reconsiders Orwell’s legacy and contextualises his contemporary resonance. Orwell, it is argued, is more concerned with morality than ideology. This book will be of significant interest to students and other readers interested in Orwell’s life as well as his profound contribution to the history of social and political thought and English literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000692000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists, commentators and politicians, and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society. Stephen Ingle explores Orwell’s character, his life and his beliefs by guiding the reader through the main events, private and public, that shaped his life and major works. This includes his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War as well as the writing of classics like Animal Farm and 1984. The book also reconsiders Orwell’s legacy and contextualises his contemporary resonance. Orwell, it is argued, is more concerned with morality than ideology. This book will be of significant interest to students and other readers interested in Orwell’s life as well as his profound contribution to the history of social and political thought and English literature.
Bruce Lee
Author: Matthew Polly
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501187635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The “definitive” (The New York Times) biography of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between eastern and western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans. Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life. It’s also one of the only accounts; incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and even the actress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon. Polly explores Lee’s early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema; his actor father’s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up; his beginnings as a martial arts teacher, eventually becoming personal instructor to movie stars like James Coburn and Steve McQueen; his struggles as an Asian-American actor in Hollywood and frustration seeing role after role he auditioned for go to a white actors in eye makeup; his eventual triumph as a leading man; his challenges juggling a sky-rocketing career with his duties as a father and husband; and his shocking end that to this day is still shrouded in mystery. Polly breaks down the myths surrounding Bruce Lee and argues that, contrary to popular belief, he was an ambitious actor who was obsessed with the martial arts—not a kung-fu guru who just so happened to make a couple of movies. This is an honest, revealing look at an impressive yet imperfect man whose personal story was even more entertaining and inspiring than any fictional role he played onscreen.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501187635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The “definitive” (The New York Times) biography of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between eastern and western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans. Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life. It’s also one of the only accounts; incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and even the actress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon. Polly explores Lee’s early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema; his actor father’s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up; his beginnings as a martial arts teacher, eventually becoming personal instructor to movie stars like James Coburn and Steve McQueen; his struggles as an Asian-American actor in Hollywood and frustration seeing role after role he auditioned for go to a white actors in eye makeup; his eventual triumph as a leading man; his challenges juggling a sky-rocketing career with his duties as a father and husband; and his shocking end that to this day is still shrouded in mystery. Polly breaks down the myths surrounding Bruce Lee and argues that, contrary to popular belief, he was an ambitious actor who was obsessed with the martial arts—not a kung-fu guru who just so happened to make a couple of movies. This is an honest, revealing look at an impressive yet imperfect man whose personal story was even more entertaining and inspiring than any fictional role he played onscreen.
Cary Grant
Author: Scott Eyman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501192124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, “captivating” (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished—and beloved—actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today. 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 married five times and had numerous affairs. Despite a remarkable degree of success, Grant remained deeply conflicted about his past, his present, his basic identity, and even the public that worshipped him in movies such as Gunga Din, Notorious, and North by Northwest. This “estimable and empathetic biography” (The Washington Post) draws on Grant’s own papers, extensive archival research, and interviews with family and friends making it a definitive and “complex portrait of Hollywood’s original leading man” (Entertainment Weekly).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501192124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, “captivating” (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished—and beloved—actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today. 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 married five times and had numerous affairs. Despite a remarkable degree of success, Grant remained deeply conflicted about his past, his present, his basic identity, and even the public that worshipped him in movies such as Gunga Din, Notorious, and North by Northwest. This “estimable and empathetic biography” (The Washington Post) draws on Grant’s own papers, extensive archival research, and interviews with family and friends making it a definitive and “complex portrait of Hollywood’s original leading man” (Entertainment Weekly).
Carmen
Socialist Thought in Imaginative Literature
Author: Stephen Ingle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Looks at imaginative literature as source material for politics, tracing the history of socialism from the 1880's to the 1940s. Authors whose works figure prominently in this study include William Morris, Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and George Orwell.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Looks at imaginative literature as source material for politics, tracing the history of socialism from the 1880's to the 1940s. Authors whose works figure prominently in this study include William Morris, Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and George Orwell.
The Mother of Jesus in the New Testament
Author: John McHugh
Publisher: Darton Longman and Todd
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher: Darton Longman and Todd
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description