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Everett G. Jarvis

Here is a volume containing more than four thousand film and television personalities who have passed away. Each is listed chronologically according to the year of death and then alphabetically. Each listing includes the deceased's age at the time of death and, in most cases, the cause. There are also notations, where applicable, beside the name of an Academy Award nominee or Oscar winner, together with fascinating details offered for the first time. As a young man, Everett Jarvis was a devoted movie buff, and it was his strong interest in noting the fate of favorite players who had vanished from the public eye that led to the present compilation. Mr. Jarvis began publishing it in 1986, updating the book every few years. Thousands of copies were sold via mail order. This edition roughly spans the years 1915 up to 1995.

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Barbara Leaming

Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the center of a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which the other players are some of the most fascinating characters from the worlds of movies, theater, and politics. Basing her research on new interviews and on thousands of primary documents - including revealing letters by Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, John Huston, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Darryl Zanuck, Marilyn's psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson, and many others - Leaming has reconstructed the tangles of betrayal in Marilyn's life.

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Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske

Elvis Presley was the beloved hero of millions. The rock 'n'roll idol for generations. The most famous entertainer of the twentieth century. But what about Elvis Presley, the son, friend, lover, and man? Here, for the first hme, is Elvis Presley in all his incarnations. Based on documents only recently made public and hundreds of interviews with Elvis's closest friends, who have now broken their silence, and including a complete discography and filmography as well as sixteen pages of photographs - some never before published - Down at the End of Lonely Street is more than the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. An eye-opening book that reveals the truth about his final days and the real circumstances of his tragic death, it delves beneath the sensational surface to emerge with a searing portrait of a complex man.

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Tom Shone

Woody Allen is a uniquely innovative performer, writer and director with nearly fifty movies to his credit, from cult slapstick films and romantic comedies to introspective character studies and crime thrillers. In this timely retrospective, Tom Shone reviews Woody Allen's entire career. His informed commentaries are combined with many classic quotes from Allen that define the directors self-deprecating humor and acute thinking about his life and times. Illustrated with more than 250 images, this is a fitting tribute to one of the masters of modern cinema, published to mark Woody Allen's eightieth birthday.