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  • Mitzi Gaynor
    Peter Shelley
    Mitzi Gaynor (b. September 4, 1931) is an American actress, singer, dancer and writer. As a child dancer, she performed in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association before being discovered by 20th Century-Fox for the movies. She was in a number of Fox movies and won the coveted role of Nellie Forbush in the film version of South Pacific (1958). In the 1960s, she played ...
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    57,55 €

  • Alexis Smith
    Peter Shelley
    Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 - June 9, 1993) was an American star of film, television, theatre, and radio. Born in Canada, she grew up in Los Angeles and was a professional dancer. She also studied acting and was discovered in a college production by a Warner Bros. scout. Signed to a long-term contract Smith spent nine years playing supporting parts, appearing three times with Er...
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    31,16 €

  • June Allyson
    Peter Shelley
    June Allyson (1917-2006) was an American film, television and stage actress, singer, dancer and author. After appearing in movie shorts and on Broadway as a chorus girl and featured player, she became an A-list box office attraction in the 1940s and 1950s in films like The Three Musketeers (1948), Little Women (1949), The Glen Miller Story (1954) and Strategic Air Command (1...
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    57,52 €

  • Brittany Murphy
    Peter Shelley
    Brittany Murphy (1977-2009) was an American film, television, and stage actress, singer, voice artist, and film producer. Beginning her career, 1995’s Clueless proved to be her breakthrough film; notable roles followed in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Don’t Say a Word (2001), 8 Mile (2002), and Just Married (2003). Despite the lead in Uptown Girls (2003), the production of The R...
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    50,38 €

  • Ann Miller
    Peter Shelley
    Ann Miller (1923-2004) was an American actress, dancer, singer and author. Best known as a tap dancer, Miller practiced all forms of dance, and some of her solo routines are considered as good as any recorded in film musical history. Despite a reputation as a kook who believed she was psychic, and the potentially flat image of a 'glamour girl,' Miller’s wit, charm and genuin...
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    42,86 €

  • Joanne Woodward
    Peter Shelley
     In her 60-year career, Joanne Woodward has been a film, television and stage actress, television producer and director, stage director, and film director. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve and was nominated for Rachel, Rachel, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and Mr. & Mrs. Bridge. She also won the Best Actress Emmy Award for S...
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    58,41 €

  • Gene Hackman
    Peter Shelley
    Gene Hackman (b. 1930) has been described as the best actor of his generation. During almost half a century as an American film, television and stage actor, film producer and author, he was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Best Actor for The French Connection (1971) and the Best Supporting Actor for Unforgiven (1992), as well as three Golden Globes and two BAFT...
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    58,46 €

  • Anne Bancroft
    Peter Shelley
    Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) was an American film, television and stage actress, stage producer and film director. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, she won the 'Triple Crown'--an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy. Her stage portrayal of Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in 1959. She reprised the role for the 1962 film of the ...
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    43,85 €

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Peter Shelley
    Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film producer, and film and stage director, best known for his memorable supporting roles in independent films. Considered one of the best actors of his generation, he died of a drug overdose at age 46 after years of sobriety. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his titular role in C...
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    43,94 €

  • Gwen Verdon
    Peter Shelley
    American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925-2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on television. Stricken with rickets as a child, Verdon overcame severe leg deformity through ballet training, making her film debut at 11 as a solo ballerina in the musical The King Steps Out (1936). Her theater credits include Can-Can (19...
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    42,67 €

  • Neil Simon on Screen
    Peter Shelley
    Neil Simon is the most successful American playwright on Broadway, and the winner of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and a Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement. Many of his plays have been adapted into films and made-for-television movies, and he has written original screenplays and television specials. This book...
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    43,96 €

  • Sandy Dennis
    Peter Shelley
    This is the first book-length study of the American actress Sandy Dennis (1937-1992). Winner of two successive Tony Awards for her work in the theatre in 1963 and 1964, she moved into film in supporting roles. For her performance in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Dennis won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. She starred in films like Up The Down Staircase (1...
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    51,36 €

  • Australian Horror Films, 1973-2010
    Peter Shelley
    This pioneering work provides in-depth coverage of 76 horror films produced in Australia, where serial killers, carnivorous animals, mutants, zombies, vampires and evil spirits all receive the 'antipodean' cinematic treatment unique to the Land Down Under. Titles covered were released between 1973 and 2010, a period coinciding with the revival of the long-dormant Australian ...
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    58,90 €

  • Jules Dassin
    Peter Shelley
    This is the first English language study of Jules Dassin (1911-2008), who began as a contract director at MGM in 1941 and earned his reputation with the films noirs Brute Force (1947), The Naked City (1948), Thieves’ Highway (1949), and Night and the City (1950). Exiled to Europe after being unofficially blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee, Dassin re-su...
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    58,67 €

  • Frances Farmer
    Peter Shelley
    Previous biographies of American actress Frances Farmer (1913-1970) have downplayed her professional achievements to emphasize her turbulent personal life, including several police arrests and repeated confinements in a state mental hospital. By focusing upon her acting career, this book endeavors to restore her position as a significant Hollywood player of the 1930s, ’40s a...
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    44,06 €

  • Grande Dame Guignol Cinema
    Peter Shelley
    This critically analytical filmography examines 45 movies featuring 'grande dames' in horror settings. Following a history of women in horror before 1962’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which launched the 'Grande Dame Guignol' subgenre of older women featured as morally ambiguous leading ladies, are all such films (mostly U.S.) that came after that landmark release. The ...
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    66,31 €