Based on her personal archive of over 35,000 pages of documents - including letters, diaries, billets doux and suicide notes - as well as extensive interviews with friends and colleagues, this biography of Marilyn Monroe rejects many myths about her dramatic childhood, her marriages, and her relatio[...]
Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother thought they would be safer in Holland than Holland Park, but although they survived the German Occu[...]
The inspiration behind BBC2's The Girl starring Toby Jones and Sienna Miller, Spellbound by Beauty examines Hitchcock's relationship with his leading ladies including Tippi Hendren and Grace Kelly. Hitchcock is also the subject of an upcoming film, Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirre[...]
Acclaimed biographer, Donald Spoto, strips away the legends from the life of Francis of Assisi to reveal the true story of a man who has too often been obscured by pious iconography. Drawing on unprecedented access to unexplored archives, plus Francis's own letters, Spoto places Francis within the c[...]
This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcocks long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of the [...]
The life of Ingrid Bergman (1915--1982) is as compelling as that of any of the women she portrayed in dozens of unforgettable movies and plays--a list that includes Casablanca, Intermezzo, Gaslight, The Bells of St. Mary's, Notorious, Anastasia, and Hedda Gabler. Hers is a story that begins with a t[...]
A multi-faceted portrait of the acclaimed actress follows Audrey Hepburn from her youth in Nazi-occupied Europe, through her rise to stardom in some of the era's most popular films, to her dedication to UNICEF, drawing on studio archives and interviews with friends, family, and colleagues to provide[...]
A detailed film-by-film analysis of the British-born director's work, from 1935's "Thirty-nine Steps" to 1976's "Family Plot," examining his technique and recurring concerns and assessing his achievement[...]
Based on meticulous research and new interviews with dozens of family members, friends, lovers, directors, and costars, Rebel offers a revelatory look at actor and film icon James Dean (1931-1955). From the dusty roads of rural Indiana to Manhattan's gay culture, from Broadway to Burbank, here is De[...]
Spoto's biography of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe makes use of over 150 interviews and more than 35,000 pages of previously sealed files, including Monroe's diaries, letters, and other personal and revealing documents. The book reveals new details of every aspect of her life, from her guarded child[...]
Marlene Dietrichin (1901-1992) ura näyttelijättärenä oli pahasti jumissa 1920-luvun lopulla. Hän oli päätynyt esittämään seksikkäitä sivuosia Berliinin näyttämöille, kunnes Josef Sternberg pestasi hänet Sininen enkeli -elokuvansa toiseen päärooliin. Alkoi loistava, Hollywoodiin pä[...]
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) oli tyttömäisen charminsa ja viehättävyytensä ansiosta jäljittelemätön tyyli-ikoni. Hän oli britti-isän ja hollantilaisen paronittaren tytär ja vasta viisivuotias, kun isä jätti perheensä. Myös toinen maailmansota ja saksalaisten miehitys Hollannissa jättiv[...]
Aiemmin julkaisemattomiin haastatteluihin perustuva Seurapiirien kuningatar - Grace Kelly kertoo Hollywoodin kultakauden kiehtovimmasta tähdestä intiimisti ja rehellisesti. Viileän ja vaalean Grace Kellyn (1929-1982) prinsessatarina kuvaa, kuinka teatterinäyttelijän urasta haaveilleesta, ylälu[...]