Paul and Joanne

Paul and Joanne
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Publisher : Dell
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0440204658
ISBN-13 : 9780440204657
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Paul and Joanne by : Joe Morella

Throughout their 30 years of marriage, Paul and Joanne have grown to be Hollywood superstars, fabulously successful in both their craft and in keeping their intimate lives a secret, even when tragedy put them in the headlines. Readers get a glimpse of the amazing relationship based on love and good business.

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000018939408
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward by : Susan Netter

As actor and actress, husband and wife, benefactors and entrepreneurs, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward have fascinated the public for more than 30 years. Together and separately they have become legends in their own time. Now, here is their incredibly true story, packed with eight pages of photos.

Paul Newman

Paul Newman
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9798216127215
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Paul Newman by : Marian Edelman Borden

This book examines the life of the remarkable Paul Newman—an iconic actor, director, race car driver, political activist, businessman, philanthropist, devoted husband, and father. Paul Leonard Newman was a true Renaissance man who is known worldwide for his performances as an actor and director. His career in the entertainment industry stretched over 50 years, as did his marriage to Joanne Woodward—an unusual and notable achievement in Hollywood. Newman was also a talented race car driver, an influential political activist, a savvy businessman, and a passionate philanthropist who created a food company that has donated more than $280 million to charities. But Newman also suffered many defeats throughout his life; he was human, just as we all are. This biography provides a chronological narrative that documents Newman's long life and myriad contributions. Information regarding his early years in Ohio, his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, his success on the stage and screen, his work with charities and business ventures, and his exploits in auto racing is provided.

Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 9781476636979
ISBN-13 : 1476636974
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Joanne Woodward by : Peter Shelley

 In her 60-year career, Joanne Woodward has been a film, television and stage actress, television producer and director, stage director, and film director. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve and was nominated for Rachel, Rachel, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and Mr. & Mrs. Bridge. She also won the Best Actress Emmy Award for See How She Runs and Do You Remember Love. This book is the first to be solely devoted to Woodward's life and career, which were often overshadowed by the successes of her late husband, Paul Newman.

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

Scandals of Classic Hollywood
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781101635476
ISBN-13 : 1101635479
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Scandals of Classic Hollywood by : Anne Helen Petersen

Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood history alike. Believe it or not, America’s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi B, Kanye's tweets, and the #metoo allegations that have gripped Hollywood. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, is here to set the record straight. Pulling little-known gems from the archives of film history, Petersen reveals eyebrow-raising information, including: • The smear campaign against the original It Girl, Clara Bow, started by her best friend • The heartbreaking story of Montgomery Clift’s rapid rise to fame, the car accident that destroyed his face, and the “long suicide” that followed • Fatty Arbuckle's descent from Hollywood royalty, fueled by allegations of a boozy orgy turned violent assault • Why Mae West was arrested and jailed for "indecency charges" • And much more Part biography, part cultural history, these stories cover the stuff that films are made of: love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and botched cover-ups. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making for a read that will inform as it entertains. Based on Petersen's beloved column on the Hairpin, but featuring 100% new content, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart.

Head Over Heels: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman

Head Over Heels: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman
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Publisher : Voracious
Total Pages : 347
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780316526012
ISBN-13 : 0316526010
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Head Over Heels: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman by : Melissa Newman

An invitation to the private world of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, one of America’s most iconic couples, in a lavishly illustrated oversize photo book affectionately curated by their daughter Melissa Newman. Their love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman became not only movie stars and stage actors, but also artistic collaborators, political activists, and philanthropists whose legacies are expansive and enduringly modern. This visually immersive oversize book chronicles their romance through the photographs of an impressive list of contributors, including: Richard Avedon Sid Avery Ralph Crane Bruce Davidson John Engstead Leo Fuchs Milton H. Greene Philippe Halsman John R. Hamilton Leonard McCombe Gordon Parks Sanford Roth Roy Schatt Lawrence Schiller Sam Shaw Bradley Smith Stewart Stern David Sutton These striking images—many rare and some never before published—are accompanied by snapshots, letters, handwritten notes, and family treasures. Together they beautifully illuminate the connection between two complex, passionate artists who opened their hearts and minds to each other for over half a century. This book is an homage to the possibility and power of love.

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780593534519
ISBN-13 : 0593534514
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by : Paul Newman

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throughout from Joanne Woodward, George Roy Hill, Tom Cruise, Elia Kazan and many others. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME and Vanity Fair "Newman at his best…with his self-aware persona, storied marriage and generous charitable activities…this rich book somehow imbues his characters’ pain and joy with fresh technicolor." —The Wall Street Journal In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, began an extraordinary project. Stuart was to compile an oral history, to have Newman’s family and friends and those who worked closely with him, talk about the actor’s life. And then Newman would work with Stewart and give his side of the story. The only stipulation was that anyone who spoke on the record had to be completely honest. That same stipulation applied to Newman himself. The project lasted five years. The result is an extraordinary memoir, culled from thousands of pages of transcripts. The book is insightful, revealing, surprising. Newman’s voice is powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always meeting that high standard of searing honesty. The additional voices—from childhood friends and Navy buddies, from family members and film and theater collaborators such as Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, Martin Ritt, and John Huston—that run throughout add richness and color and context to the story Newman is telling. Newman’s often traumatic childhood is brilliantly detailed. He talks about his teenage insecurities, his early failures with women, his rise to stardom, his early rivals (Marlon Brando and James Dean), his first marriage, his drinking, his philanthropy, the death of his son Scott, his strong desire for his daughters to know and understand the truth about their father. Perhaps the most moving material in the book centers around his relationship with Joanne Woodward—their love for each other, his dependence on her, the way she shaped him intellectually, emotionally and sexually. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is revelatory and introspective, personal and analytical, loving and tender in some places, always complex and profound.

A Hall of Mirrors

A Hall of Mirrors
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 0395860288
ISBN-13 : 9780395860281
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis A Hall of Mirrors by : Robert Stone

Rheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right-wing political movement. Peopled with civil rights activists, fanatical Christians, corrupt politicians, and demented Hollywood stars, A Hall of Mirrors vividly depicts the dark side of America that erupted in the sixties. To quote Wallace Stegner, "Stone writes like a bird, like an angel, like a circus barker, like a con man, like someone so high on pot that he is scraping his shoes on the stars."

Hank and Jim

Hank and Jim
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 384
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501102196
ISBN-13 : 1501102192
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Hank and Jim by : Scott Eyman

“[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography” (The New York Times) from bestselling author Scott Eyman about the remarkable friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart, two Hollywood legends who maintained a close relationship that endured all of life’s twists and turns. Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years, but they became friends when they were unknown. They roomed together as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they were roommates again. Between them they made such classic films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, and Rear Window. They got along famously, with a shared interest in elaborate practical jokes and model airplanes, among other things. But their friendship also endured despite their differences: Fonda was a liberal Democrat, Stewart a conservative Republican. Fonda was a ladies’ man who was married five times; Stewart remained married to the same woman for forty-five years. Both men volunteered during World War II and were decorated for their service. When Stewart returned home, still unmarried, he once again moved in with Fonda, his wife, and his two children, Jane and Peter, who knew him as Uncle Jimmy. For his “breezy, entertaining” (Publishers Weekly) Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda’s widow and children as well as three of Stewart’s children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men—in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together. This is not just another Hollywood story, but “a fascinating…richly documented biography” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of an extraordinary friendship that lasted through war, marriages, children, careers, and everything else.

Paul and Joanne

Paul and Joanne
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 280
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0491032099
ISBN-13 : 9780491032094
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Paul and Joanne by : Joe Morella