My First Hundred Years In Show Business

Author : Mary Louise Wilson
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468312243
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My First Hundred Years in Show Business written by Mary Louise Wilson and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Tony winner’s memoir is “a riot of characters met and characters played . . . a funny, frank, and savvy chronicle of a wonderful life.” —David Hyde Pierce Mary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop, portraying legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her life and career—including the Tony Award for her portrayal of Big Edie in Grey Gardens—have been celebrated and varied. Raised in New Orleans with a social climbing, alcoholic mother, Mary Louise moved to New York City in the late 1950s; lived with her gay brother in the Village; entered the nightclub scene in a legendary revue; and rubbed shoulders with every famous person of that era and since. My First Hundred Years in Show Business gets it all down. Yet as delicious as the anecdotes are, the heart of this book is in its unblinkingly honest depiction of the life of a working actor. In her inimitable voice—wry, admirably unsentimental, mordantly funny—Mary Louise Wilson has crafted a work that is at once a teeming social history of the New York theatre scene and a thoroughly revealing, superbly entertaining memoir of the life of an extraordinary woman and actor. “Brims with anecdotes . . . plenty of laughs [and] plenty of candor, too.” —Nola.com

Author : Jack L. Warner
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1631681125
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My First Hundred Years in Hollywood written by Jack L. Warner and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 5, 1958, Jack Warner spent six hours playing baccarat, taking $4,000 from the tables at Cannes before stepping out into the night. He drove home along a winding road in a sporty little Alfa-Romeo, and was negotiating a tricky turn when a truck leapt in front of him. The Alfa was destroyed, but Warner was saved—thrown out the door to land forty feet from the burning car. Around the world, the newspapers told of the death of the king of Hollywood. But Warner wasn’t finished yet. One of the true legends of the movie business, Warner had wielded absolute power over his studio since the silent era. He produced Casablanca and The Jazz Singer; he feuded with Errol Flynn, and gave the green light to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? starring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. As the studio system crumbled, Warner’s control remained unquestioned, and in this engaging autobiography, he shows the man behind the crown. Jack L. Warner is portrayed by Stanley Tucci in the Ryan Murphy TV series Feud.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1477 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by Sony Pictures Television written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edwin J. Aiken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Hundred Years of the New Hampshire Bible Society, 1812-1912 written by Edwin J. Aiken and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Kanfer
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307271005
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tough Without a Gun written by Stefan Kanfer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of one of the great movie icons of the twentieth century, and a wide-reaching appraisal of the actor's singular legacy.

Author : Kenneth M. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bar Association of San Francisco: the First Hundred Years, 1872/1972 written by Kenneth M. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cass Warner Sperling
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813109589
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood be Thy Name written by Cass Warner Sperling and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text charts the real story of the Warner brothers and contains all the drama of a big screen production. The book tells of tension and strife among four brothers, love and marriage, death and divorce, and plotting and betrayal.

Author : Maureen D. Lee
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611172810
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sissieretta Jones written by Maureen D. Lee and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, whose nickname the "Black Patti" likened her to the well-known Spanish-born opera star Adelina Patti, was a distinguished African American soprano during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Performing in such venues as Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden, Jones also sang before four U.S. presidents. In this compelling book-length biography of Jones, Maureen Donnelly Lee chronicles the successes and challenges of this musical pioneer. Lee details how Jones was able to overcome substantial obstacles of racial bias to build a twenty-eight-year career performing in hundreds of opera houses and theaters throughout North America and Europe. Serving as a role model for other African American women who came after her, Jones became a successful performer despite the many challenges she faced. She confronted head on the social difficulties African American performers endured during the rise of Jim Crow segregation. Throughout her career Jones was a concert singer performing ballads and operatic pieces, and she eventually went on to star in her own musical comedy company, the Black Patti Troubadours. Critics praised Jones as America's leading African American prima donna, with some even dubbing her voice one in a million. Lee's research, utilizing many Black newspapers, such as the New York Age and the Indianapolis Freeman, concert reviews, and court documents brings overdue recognition to an important historical songstress. Sissieretta Jones: "The Greatest Singer of Her Race," 1868-1933 provides a comprehensive, moving portrait of Jones and a vivid overview of the exciting world in which she performed.

Author : the late Russell Sanjek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190243295
Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book American Popular Music and Its Business written by the late Russell Sanjek and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-07-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.