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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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José Luis López

Este libro es el primero de una serie de tres volúmenes que se editarán en el futuro. Como el de directores, que salió justamente un año antes, el "Diccionario de actores" es un texto informativo con casi 500 biofilmografías de intérpretes cinematográficos de todo el mundo. El libro se compone de una pequeña nota biográfica y una filmografía completa de cada actor, que contiene: año de producción, título original y, en caso de estreno en España, título en castellano, así como el nombre del director. La selección es inevitablemente incompleta, pero insistimos en que, previsiblemente y en función de su aceptación, este trabajo tendrá continuidad. Como podrá comprobar el lector se ha incidido, sobre todo, en los actores más jóvenes, a los que resulta más difícil ubicar o cuya filmografía es menos sencilla de encontrar, sin olvidar a los más grandes mitos de la historia del cine.

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Lynn Kear and John Rossman

"Francis's biography is the heart of this book, her family background and her upbringing by a vaudevillian actress mother. The story of her career and romantic pursuits with comments from the media and her diaries, are supplemented with photographs. A chronology gives dates of theater openings, film releases, marriages, television and radio appearances, births and deaths"--Provided by publisher.

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Danny Peary

Interviews, essays, personal remembrances, tributes, and photographs explore the characters, roles, and styles of more than one hundred film greats.