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Clark Gable arrived in Hollywood after a rough-and-tumble youth, and his breezy, big-boned, everyman persona quickly made him the town’s king. He was a gambler among gamblers, a heavy drinker in the days when everyone drank seemingly all the time, and a lover to legions of the most attractive women in the most glamorous business in the world, including the great love of his life, Carole Lombard. In this well-researched and revealing biography, Warren G. Harris gives an exceptionally acute portrait of one of the most memorable actors in the history of motion pictures—whose intimates included such legends as Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Loretta Young, David O. Selznick, Jean Harlow, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, and Grace Kelly—as well as a vivid sense of the glamour and excess of mid-century Hollywood.
From an impoverished childhood in fascist Italy to her Oscar-winning performance in Two Women, learn of the legendary career of actress Sophia Loren in this fascinating biography by Warren G. Harris. Raised in the back streets of Naples, Sophia Loren grew out of fascist Italy into one of the most beloved movie stars in the world. Launched into stardom at the age of nineteen after a chance meeting with legendary producer Carlo Ponti put her into the international spotlight, Loren made the world fall in love with her captivating beauty and never looked back. Sharing many new facts about Loren’s starlit personal life, Warren G. Harris tells the story of one of cinema’s greatest beauties and the romance that changed her life.
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Chronicles the life of the charming and dignified actress, discusssing her childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland, rise to stardom, unhappy marriages, and work for UNICEF
Taking the reader from their early years working under the old Hollywood studio system, to the final, shattering hours before Natalie Wood's life mysteriously ended, Natalie and R.J. brings the magic and the madness of these legendary lovers brilliantly alive. Natalie, the child star of Miracle on 34th Street, spotted R.J. for the first time when he was a handsome eighteen-year-old whose mentors included Gary Cooper and Clark Gable. Their first marriage was a tempestuous one, torn apart by gossip columnists and Natalie's sensational liaison with Warren Beatty. They were divorced and their subsequent marriages were doomed relationships. They remarried and, amid career jealousies, extramarital affairs and a painful suicide attempt by Natalie, there existed a love that knew no bounds.
A Portrayal of the relationship between the comedienne, Lucille Ball, and her Cuban bandleader husband, Desi Arnaz.
A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems, and what we can do to break the cycle.
Presenting an astonishing portrait of the wildest, most indulgent, and magical days of the old Hollywood dream factory, "Clark Gable" brings the irresistible leading man vividly to life. 16-page full-color insert.
President Nixon's former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandal Warren G. Harding may be best known as America's worst president. Scandals plagued him: the Teapot Dome affair, corruption in the Veterans Bureau and the Justice Department, and the posthumous revelation of an extramarital affair. Raised in Marion, Ohio, Harding took hold of the small town's newspaper and turned it into a success. Showing a talent for local politics, he rose quickly to the U.S. Senate. His presidential campaign slogan, "America's present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy," gave voice to a public exhausted by the intense politics following World War I. Once elected, he pushed for legislation limiting the number of immigrants; set high tariffs to relieve the farm crisis after the war; persuaded Congress to adopt unified federal budget creation; and reduced income taxes and the national debt, before dying unexpectedly in 1923. In this wise and compelling biography, John W. Dean—no stranger to controversy himself—recovers the truths and explodes the myths surrounding our twenty-ninth president's tarnished legacy.
Originally published: Great Britain: Doubleday, 2016.