Author : Tarquin Olivier
Publisher : Trafalgar Square
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780747206118
Olivier's son shares letters, photos, and stories never before published which reveal the confused emotions, pain, guilt, humor, happiness, and love of Sir Laurence.
Author : Richard Olivier
Publisher : Continuum International Publishing Group
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780882143705
A superb account of the men's movement, its ideas and virtues, from the perspective of the son of Laurence Olivier.
Author : Roger Lewis
Publisher : Arrow Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780099513667
Laurence Olivier was both an enchanter and a force of nature. Most of all, Olivier's life and work become a love story - the tale of the relationship with Vivien Leigh, who was destroyed by the extent of her passion for him, as he himself was cast into a frenzy of guilt and disillusionment.
Author : Tarquin Olivier
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Accountants
ISBN : 9780859553223
As the first-born of such a prominent acting family - his father, Laurence Olivier, matchless, and his mother and her mother no mean performers themselves; then add in successive stepmothers Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright, not to mention, among the godparents, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson and Noel Coward, and the author's personal associations are enviably exotic. Naturally they constantly illumine his narrative. But he was also concerned to find his own fulfilment - principally in Third World countries."
Author : Anne Helen Petersen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1101635479
Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood history alike. Believe it or not, America’s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi B, Kanye's tweets, and the #metoo allegations that have gripped Hollywood. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, is here to set the record straight. Pulling little-known gems from the archives of film history, Petersen reveals eyebrow-raising information, including: • The smear campaign against the original It Girl, Clara Bow, started by her best friend • The heartbreaking story of Montgomery Clift’s rapid rise to fame, the car accident that destroyed his face, and the “long suicide” that followed • Fatty Arbuckle's descent from Hollywood royalty, fueled by allegations of a boozy orgy turned violent assault • Why Mae West was arrested and jailed for "indecency charges" • And much more Part biography, part cultural history, these stories cover the stuff that films are made of: love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and botched cover-ups. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making for a read that will inform as it entertains. Based on Petersen's beloved column on the Hairpin, but featuring 100% new content, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart.
Author : Philip Ziegler
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1623650437
A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered the greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors--Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole--but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. By the 1940s he had achieved international stardom. His affair with Vivien Leigh led to a marriage as glamorous and as tragic as any in Hollywood history. He was as accomplished a director as he was a leading man: his three Shakespearian adaptations are among the most memorable ever filmed. And yet, at the height of his fame, he accepted what was no more than an administrator's wage to become the founding Director of the National Theatre. In 2013 the theatre celebrates its fiftieth anniversary; without Olivier's leadership it would never have achieved the status that it enjoys today. Off-stage, Olivier was the most extravagant of characters: generous, yet almost insanely jealous of those few contemporaries whom he deemed to be his rivals; charming but with a ferocious temper. With access to more than fifty hours of candid, unpublished interviews, Ziegler ensures that Olivier's true character--at its most undisguised--shines through as never before.
Author : Kendra Bean
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0762451033
Vivien Leigh's mystique was a combination of staggering beauty, glamour, romance, and genuine talent displayed in her Oscar-winning performances in Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire. For more than thirty years, her name alone sold out theaters and cinemas the world over, and she inspired many of the greatest visionaries of her time: Laurence Olivier loved her; Winston Churchill praised her; Christian Dior dressed her. Through both an in-depth narrative and a stunning array of photos, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait presents the personal story of one of the most celebrated women of the twentieth century, an engrossing tale of success, struggles, and triumphs. It chronicles Leigh's journey from her birth in India to prominence in British film, winning the most-coveted role in Hollywood history, her celebrated love affair with Laurence Olivier, through to her untimely death at age fifty-three in 1967. Author Kendra Bean is the first Vivien Leigh biographer to delve into the Laurence Olivier Archives, where an invaluable collection of personal letters and documents ranging from interview transcripts to film contracts to medical records shed new insight on Leigh's story. Illustrated by hundreds of rare and never-before-published images, including those by Leigh's "official" photographer, Angus McBean, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait is the first illustrated biography to closely examine the fascinating, troubled, and often misunderstood life of Vivien Leigh: the woman, the actress, the legend.
Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Cooper Square Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Actors
ISBN : 9780815411468
Though Olivier was regarded by many as the finest actor of the century, biographer Spoto reveals personal conflicts and tumultuous marriages that tormented him even during a lifetime of landmark dramatic successes.
Author : Marlon Brando
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307786730
This is Marlon Brando’s own story, and his reason for telling it is best revealed in his own words: “I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that aroused in me a desire to speak out, I have done my utmost throughout my life, for the sake of my children and myself, to remain silent. . . . But now, in my seventieth year, I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.” To date there have been over a dozen books written about Marlon Brando, and almost all of them have been inaccurate, based on hearsay, sensationalist or prurient in tone. Now, at last, fifty years after his first appearance onstage in New York City, the actor has told his life story, with the help of Robert Lindsey. The result is an extraordinary book, at once funny, moving, absorbing, ribald, angry, self-deprecating and completely frank account of the career, both on-screen and off, of the greatest actor of our time. Anyone who has ever enjoyed a Brando film will relish this book. Please note: this edition does not include photos.
Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806513027
Laurence Olivier portrayed characters that were as diverse as they were memorable. From Hamlet to Heathcliff, from a Nazi dentist in 'Marathon Man' to a cunning mystery writer in 'Sleuth' his roles made him one of the most highly acclaimed actors of all time. This book celebrates his career, including casts, credits, synopses and production notes from every movie in which he appeared. Photographs illustrate the text, wit hrare candids borrowed from Olivier collectors.
