Simone Signoret

Author : Patricia A. DeMaio
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604735694
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden of Dreams written by Patricia A. DeMaio and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the stunning French movie star and her complex marriage to singer Yves Montand

Author : Simone Signoret
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586048368
Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book Nostalgia Isn't what it Used to be written by Simone Signoret and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826413949
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simone Signoret written by Susan Hayward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-06-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may be the most in-depth study yet published of a film star's body of work, Susan Hayward charts the career of Simone Signoret, one of the great Frech actresses of the 20th Century.Signoret- who won an Oscar in 1960 for her performance in Room at the Top- was a key figure in French cinema for 40 years. But it is not so much her longevity that impresses, as it is the quality of work she produced as her career progressed. She started out as a stunningly beautiful woman, winning major international awards five times for her roles, and yet was only moderately in demand during those years. From the 1960s onwards, when her looks began to decline significantly, Signoret was in greater demand, and produced most of her output. She insisted on playing roles consonant with her real age, and often chose to play roles that portrayed wher as even more ugly than she had become.Simore Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign is a remarkable achievement, a labor of love from one of the world's leading scholars of French cinema.

Author : Romain Gary
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811232425
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life Before Us written by Romain Gary and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print, this heartbreaking novel by Romain Gary has inspired two movies, including the Netflix feature The Life Ahead Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores’ children at Madame Rosa’s boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and as Madame Rosa becomes too ill to climb the stairs to their apartment, he determines to support her any way he can. This sensitive, slightly macabre love story between Momo and Madame Rosa has a supporting cast of transvestites, pimps, and witch doctors from Paris’s immigrant slum, Belleville. Profoundly moving, The Life Before Us won France’s premier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.

Author : Patricia A. Demaio
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617039365
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden of Dreams written by Patricia A. Demaio and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incomparable Simone Signoret (1921-1985), one of the grand actresses of the twentieth century and one of France's most notable stars, considered herself the “oldest discovery” in Hollywood. After years of block-listing during the McCarthy era, she was thirty-eight years old when she entered Hollywood through the back door in the 1959 British blockbuster Room at the Top. Her portrayal of the endearing Alice Aisgill earned her the Academy Award in 1960, the first French actor to win a coveted Oscar. Though a latecomer to Hollywood, Signoret was already an international star who had survived the Nazi occupation of Paris, emerging in 1945 as a beautiful, promising actress capable of communicating more emotion through body language than dialogue alone could achieve. She gained a reputation as the thinking man's sex symbol and in several films portrayed prostitutes with subtlety and depth. She was fiercely protective of her privacy. But after winning the Oscar, she was dragged through the gutter when her second husband, Yves Montand, had a widely publicized affair with Marilyn Monroe. Many attributed her rapid aging and alcoholism to this betrayal. She endured this perception in silence, all the while demonstrating a remarkable capacity to reinvent herself as a bestselling author, respected social activist, and revered actress who remained in the cinema, her “garden of dreams,” for over four decades. Patricia A. DeMaio combines Signoret's courageous story with Montand's biography to reveal new information and insight into Signoret's humanitarian efforts and the vibrant film career that sustained her.

Author : Catherine David
Publisher : Overlook Books
ISBN 13 : 9780879515812
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simone Signoret written by Catherine David and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glorious blonde beauty in her youth who hurled herself into old age after husband Yves Montand's much publicized affair with Marilyn Monroe, Simone Signoret was both French icon and international star. Although she is best known for her roles in such films as La Ronde, Diabolique, and Casque d'Or, Signoret played out her riveting life in many arenas. She was famous for being a movie star, she was famous for being a political activist and she was famous for being the wife of Yves Montand. This unflinching, captivating biography shows Signoret as a personally and professionally complex woman who was gutsy and uncompromising in her commitments. Tough, self-deprecating, funny and articulate, Signoret was an actress whose star quality was based not on sex appeal like that of rival Monroe but on her extraordinary ability to communicate passion. As her beauty began to wane, she compensated by throwing herself into her intellectual life - she held salons, wrote books and stepped up her political activities. Even her Academy Award, for Room at the Top, was a political statement. By giving the award to this subversive French woman with ties to the French Communist Party, the academy was advertising its joy at the return of free expression after the chill of the McCarthy years. Signoret was loved by millions as much for her commanding character as for her great talent. When she died of cancer in 1985, at the age of sixty-four, thousands of mourners, ordinary people as well as French actors, writers and politicians, attended her funeral in Paris.

Author : Nadine Cohodas
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882747
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princess Noire written by Nadine Cohodas and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis Institute of Music rejected her, the devastating disappointment compelled her to change direction. She turned to popular music and jazz but never abandoned her classical roots or her intense ambition. By the age of twenty six, Simone had sung at New York City's venerable Town Hall and was on her way. Tapping into newly unearthed material on Simone's family and career, Nadine Cohodas paints a luminous portrait of the singer, highlighting her tumultuous life, her innovative compositions, and the prodigious talent that matched her ambition. With precision and empathy, Cohodas weaves the story of Simone's contentious relationship with audiences and critics, her outspoken support for civil rights, her two marriages and her daughter, and, later, the sense of alienation that drove her to live abroad from 1993 until her death. Alongside these threads runs a more troubling one: Simone's increasing outbursts of rage and pain that signaled mental illness and a lifelong struggle to overcome a deep sense of personal injustice.

Author : Claude-Jean Philippe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782851084231
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simone Signoret written by Claude-Jean Philippe and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Tapert
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978808054
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Actress written by Stephen Tapert and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing a dazzling collection of 200 photographs, many of which have never before been seen, this lavishly illustrated book offers a captivating historical, social, and political examination of the first 75 women--from Janet Gaynor to Emma Stone--to have won the coveted and legendary Academy Award for Best Actress.t Actress.

Author : Simone Signoret
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330299657
Total Pages : 406 pages
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