Memoir & Biography
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Rare Birds: An American Family [Paperback]
Dan Bessie (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813153681
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, sixties hippies, a Dutch stowaw... .... Learn More -
Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant [Paperback]
Victoria Amador (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780813154657
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Legendary actress and two-time Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland is best known for her role as Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). She often inhabited characters who were delicate, elegant, and refined. At the same time, she was a... .... Learn More -
Charles Boyer: The French Lover [Hardback]
John Baxter (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813155524
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
For generations of film and theatre audiences, Charles Boyer was the archetypal Frenchman - cultured, courteous, seductive, yet never quite at home in a culture not his own. Even his murmuring baritone voice echoed that loss, giving him the very e... .... Learn More -
Film's First Family: The Untold Story of the Costellos [Paperback]
Terry Chester Shulman (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813151946
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Scandal, adultery, secret marriages, celebrity, divorce, custody battles, suicide attempts, and alcoholism - the trials and tribulations of the Costellos were as riveting as any Hollywood feature film. Written with unprecedented access to the fami... .... Learn More -
Arlen Specter: A Biography [Hardback]
Evan Laine (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9780822946762
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
From his early work as a lawyer on the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to his days as Philadelphia's district attorney to his thirty-year career as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Spe... .... Learn More -
Changing the Game: My Career in Collegiate Sports Marketing [Paperback]
Jim Host (Author); Eric A. Moyen (Other)
£20.00ISBN: 9780813180427
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Many Kentuckians and fans of intercollegiate athletics are familiar with the name Jim Host. As founder and CEO of Host Communications, he was the pioneer in college sports marketing. Host's prevailing innovation in collegiate sports was the concep... .... Learn More -
Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood [Paperback]
Robert S. Birchard (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780813180519
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Cecil B. DeMille was the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the course of film history and a fascinating look at how movies were... .... Learn More -
Silas House: Exploring an Appalachian Writer's Work [Hardback]
Sylvia Shurbutt (Editor); Adam Booth (Other); Denise Giardina (Author); David O. Hoffman (Other); Maurice Manning (Other)
£30.00ISBN: 9780813181127
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Silas House is a beloved and celebrated Kentucky author, music journalist, and activist who has focused nearly all his work on Appalachia and its culture. His groundbreaking writings across genres have captured and catalogued Appalachian life whil... .... Learn More -
Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It [Hardback]
Eve Golden (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813180953
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
The first definitive biography of tragicomic sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, one of the most colorful and eccentric movie stars of the 1950s-60s. The book examines both her life and her career, detailing her movie, TV and stage work, as well as her dr... .... Learn More -
The Brief, Madcap Life of Kay Kendall [Paperback]
Eve Golden (Author); Kim Kendall (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813180731
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Comedic film actress Kay Kendall, born to a theatrical family in Northern England, came of age in London during the Blitz. After starring in Britain's biggest cinematic disaster, she found stardom in 1953 with her brilliant performance in the low-... .... Learn More