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Joan Crawford, born Lucille Fay LeSueur (March 23, 1904-May 10, 1977) in San Antonio, TX, was an American dancer, businesswoman, and actress of 86 films. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. Her films were well received by Depression-era audiences and popular with women. In this 1971 recording, Crawford discusses filmmaking, her films, and her appearance at an upcoming AFI event in Washington, DC.

"Airplane Mode" is the first audible album! Written and narrated by Ayinde Ekundayo (Also known as, recording artist, The Real BEN FRANK). Ayinde shares his personal life experiences through music, illustrating his ups and downs, evolving as a man, independent artist and father. Each chapter was recorded as short relatable snippets, easy for listeners to visualize and/or read along.

Some Eminent Women of Our Times (which has been renamed Some Eminent Women of the 19th century) was written by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett in 1889. It is available in the public domain and contains short biographies of various women who achieved great things both socially and in the literary field. The women Dame Millicent includes were singled out by her because of their unstinting dedication, selflessness, and in many cases bravery to do what they thought was right.

Все рукописи Фаины Георгиевны Раневской хранятся в Российском Государственном Архиве литературы. В этих текстах, часто написанных Раневской для самой себя, великая актриса предстает в ином образе. Комическое уступает место драматическому. Слушатель получает возможность приподнять кулису и заглянуть туда, где идет настоящая жизнь актера. Надеемся, аудиокнига Огорчить могу. Обидеть-никогда поможет вам больше узнать о непростой судьбе этой гениальной и непохожей ни на кого актрисы.

Donald G. Jackson was a cutting edge, avant-garde filmmaker who contributed numerous films to the independent film market throughout his career. His wild behavior, chaotic filmmaking style, and lack of defined storyline in his movies has left many people wondering just who was Donald G. Jackson and what were his inspirations and motivations as a filmmaker. In this book, Scott Shaw, his closest filmmaking associate, delves into the man and the artist who was Donald G. Jackson. He presents a treasure trove of extensive material detailing the life of the man and the filmmaker in his own words ...

Grace Kelly, Schönheitsgöttin, Hollywood-Legende und Fürstin: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

BARDOT AT 80 Up close, personal and revised for her birthday - RELEASE DATE - 9/14/2014 Difficult to believe, but the "sex kitten" who scandalized the 1950s and the 1960s with her unbelievable beauty, her wonderful childlike screen persona and her lack of clothes, is now an octogenarian. Twenty years ago, for the first and only time, a writer was granted access to the woman behind the myth to tell her amazing story. Now, that story is brought up to date. For sixty years, Brigitte Bardot was an international phenomenon. Often acclaimed as the most beautiful woman on earth, her legendary on-...

7 reguli la îndemâna oricui, pe care să le urmezi pentru a-ți realiza adevăratul scop în viață–puse laolaltă de Arnold Schwarzenegger din propria sa călătorie de permanentă reinventare și de realizări extraordinare.

Brutus Beefcake: Struttin' & Cuttin' brings you everything you want to learn about the world's most famous wrestling barber Brutus Beefcake was a main event WWF Superstar who traveled the world. His tell-all book covers; the parasailing accident that almost ended his life & the struggle to make his miraculous comeback... Growing up in Tampa with Wade Boggs & Hulk Hogan in the mix... Breaking into the wrestling business... Working in the territorial days of wrestling... Vince McMahon's take over... The Dream Team championship run with Greg Valentine... The WWF takeover in the initial ...

Born Robert Preston Meservey in the suburbs of Boston in 1918, Preston moved with his family to Los Angeles as a toddler. He caught the acting bug in high school and continued as an actor with a Shakespearean acting troupe and at the Pasadena Playhouse before being discovered by Paramount Studios in 1938 at the age of nineteen. After languishing in B-movies for over a decade, he made the decision to seek success on the Broadway stage. The song “Seventy-Six Trombones” from The Music Man would forever link Robert Preston to the Broadway musical and the iconic 1962 film that would ...

Jessica Hepburn is an unlikely athlete–she was labelled the ‘arty’ not the ‘sporty’ one in school. She hates exercise and believes the only reason to do it is for food, booze and box-sets on the sofa. However, in her forties, following a succession of hard and sad life experiences she started to try and exercise her way out of heartbreak. She has now become one of the world’s most extraordinary endurance athletes.

1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and the aftermath. It's a book about music, business, race, addiction and the cities that gave jazz its home; from New York and LA to Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City. Kaplan meditates on creativity and the great forebears of this golden age who would take the music down strange new paths.

Eine Zeitreise in die wilde Jugend unserer Großeltern, als wärst du live dabei! Verrückte Schlaglichter in eine unbekümmerte Zeit ohne Handy und Social Media, aber mit weit offenen Augen für das Wesentliche: Liebe, Erotik, Verwirrungen. Und dabei absolut keine Gebrauchsanweisung für nichts! Michael Schwarzmaier, Schauspieler und Autor, entdeckt nach über fünfzig Jahren eine Autobiografie, die er mit Mitte zwanzig geschrieben hat.

"Vodka On My Wheaties" is like no other book you have ever read. The events that have happened to Ann Lloyd are only seen on the silver screen, but all of her stories are non-fiction. Her book reads like a novel even though it's an autobiography. "Vodka On My Wheaties" is filled with a humorous potpourri of real life happenings for a wide range of people to enjoy. The beginning chapters reveal that Ann was programmed from birth to march to the beat of a different drum. She was the only child of neurotic parents and it was not in her nature to follow the herd. Married at eighteen to a ...

Franz Joseph Haydn – Prägender Komponist der Wiener Klassik, Freund Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts und Lehrer Ludwig van Beethovens. Der Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zu Leben und Werk des stilprägenden Komponisten der Wiener Klassik Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809). Der Österreicher Franz Joseph Haydn, geboren 1732 in Rohrau, stammte aus bescheidenen Familienverhältnissen.

Raw, Unvarnished, provocative, and poetically written, "The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage" is the memoir of Roxana Shirazi, who was raised during Iran's revolution within a politically active family and sent to England by her family aged ten during the Iran/Iraq war, and led far astray by the sound - and the sex appeal - of rock and roll.

I’m an introvert who pretends to be an extrovert. There are many of us. With those words, Dom Testa unlocks the door on a fascinating radio odyssey that has lasted nearly 50 years. In this captivating memoir, Dom reveals the often funny—and sometimes embarrassing—stories that highlight his long career in broadcasting.

For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind one of Australia's most iconic rock bands, Midnight Oil. As they made their way through the nascent domestic punk scene and the uncharted musical territory of the Western Desert to the concert halls of Europe and America, the band members developed a feeling of 'five against the world'. For Jim, this de facto family was a bulwark against a nagging sense that something was missing from his life: he'd long known that his biological mother had given him up for adoption as a baby.

Central to RuPaul's success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world's largest television franchises, RuPaul's ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.

Fans of Gossip Girl, The Help, Sex and the City, and Reality TV – This book was made for you! New York's Upper East Side has always been a close-knit society, one that only those who can afford million-dollar homes, private schools, and have staff at their disposal 24/7 can join. One might think that if you can do all of that, a happy life is guaranteed, but one would be very wrong! Welcome to The Untold Stories of Madison Avenue, follow a mysterious figure calling himself The Guy Who Knows, because he knows everyone who is anyone on the Upper East Side and all their secrets. You might ...