Jean Jaques Naudet Book

Language: en
Pages: 312

Marlene Dietrich

Author(s): Jean-Jaques Naudet

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: Book
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Published: 2001
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Publisher: Random House

Marlene Dietrich never threw away anything. She kept her good-luck black rag doll (it appeared with her in The Blue Angel and followed her to dressing tables on every movie set). She kept the letters (every last one) she received from her lovers and her husband of fifty-three years. She kept every article of clothing made for her by the great French couturiers and the legendary Hollywood costume designers. She kept everything. And she believed in storage. Six storage companies, from New York to California, London, and Paris, held pieces of Miss Dietrich’s life, locked away for decades like the pieces of the life of Charles Foster Kane. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars were ...

Language: en

Marilyn

Author(s): Jean-Jacques Naudet

Categories: Motion picture actors and actresses

Type: Book
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Published: 2003-03-21
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Publisher: Unknown

Marilyn ... the word instantly evokes glamour, charm, voluptuous beauty, but also an alluring childlike vulnerability. It's precisely this multi-faceted and complex appeal that created her incredible popularity and ensures her continuing fame. Each of the various photographers she worked with cultivated a different side of Marilyn's beauty and personality. Here are the firsthand accounts by (as well as the photographs of) some of Marilyn's most trusted photographers telling what it was like to photograph this legend: Henri Cartier-Bresson; Andre de Dienes; Cecil Beaton; Richard Avedon and Milton Greene. About the Author Jean-Jacques Naudet is a journalist for Hachette-Filipacchi and served as editor in chief for Photo magazine from 1976 to 1988. 60 illustrations

Language: en
Pages: 418

They Changed the World

Author(s): Barbara Cady, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated, Bookwise International

Categories: Biography

Type: Book
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Published: 2007-09-01
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Publisher: Unknown

This book features two hundred of our century's most recognizable faces - John F. Kennedy - Albert Einstein - Elvis Presley - Mao Zedong - Pablo Picasso - Marilyn Monroe - Margaret Thatcher - Aretha Franklin - Amelia Earhart - Eleanor Roosevelt.