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  • The Other Side of the Moon
    Sheridan Morley
    ‘A highly readable work … Niven emerges as gallant and gracious.’ Chicago TribuneSheridan Morley wrote this biography of the consummate on-screen English gentleman after speaking to over 150 of Niven’s friends and colleagues (only Rex Harrison refused). The result is a picture which both supports and contradicts the charming vagabond persona depicted in Niven’s own bestselling ...
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    14,61 €

  • Audrey Hepburn
    Sheridan Morley
    ’Sparkling Audrey, magic Audrey, sublime Audrey, fascinating Audrey. I stop right there because words fail me. Just one more. Eternal Audrey.’  Hubert de GivenchyAudrey Hepburn embodied the grace and glamour of Hollywood’s Golden Age. From the radiant princess of Roman Holiday to the wistful dreamer of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the spirited flower girl of My Fair Lady, she red...
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    13,06 €

  • Marilyn Monroe
    Ruth Leon / Sheridan Morley
    ’Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.’ Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Baker in Los Angeles in 1926, the daughter of a salesman and a troubled mother. By the time she died at thirty-six from a drug overdose, she had become one of the most recognisable figures in film history.After a fragmented childhoo...
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    12,64 €

  • Elizabeth Taylor
    Sheridan Morley
    ’MGM taught me how to be a star more than forty years ago, and I have never really known how to be anything else’Elizabeth Taylor was the last truly great star to emerge from the Hollywood studio system, and it is hard to imagine any actress ever matching her fame at the height of Cleopatra. Yet, for all the attention she has received, this was the first book to explore Taylor ...
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    12,80 €

  • Oscar Wilde
    Sheridan Morley
    ’Oscar’s own life was indeed the greatest of all his theatrical productions’Oscar Wilde was one of the most dazzling figures of the late Victorian age, a wit and playwright whose brilliance illuminated London’s social and theatrical world. His plays, from The Importance of Being Earnest to An Ideal Husband, remain among the sharpest and most enduring comedies in the English lan...
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    14,25 €

  • The Hollywood Raj
    Sheridan Morley
    ‘Hollywood is a chain gang and we lose the will to escape; the links of our chain are forged not of cruelties but of luxuries: we are pelted with orchids and roses; we are overpaid and underworked.’First there was Charles Chaplin. Then came Stan Laurel, and subsequently a host of well-loved British actors and characters whose lives, loves, lavish parties and bitter rivalries co...
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    12,13 €

  • Robert My Father
    Sheridan Morley
    ‘If Robert had a mission, it was to emphasise that life was meant to be fun; he was one of the few men I knew who strode through life instead of circumnavigating it. He died without ever growing old.’ Michael Parkinson‘Comic genius’ was the uncontested verdict of the International Herald Tribune. But Robert Morley was bigger even than that. While he is remembered for landmark p...
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    13,44 €

  • Odd Man Out
    Sheridan Morley
    ‘Incredibly good-looking, in a dark way … that curious quality of a man with an eternal secret. … That was what was so arresting. … That and the voice.’ Geraldine FitzgeraldThe reason for watching a James Mason film, as the film critic Pauline Kael once noted, was usually only James Mason himself.Mason was actually pointed toward a career in architecture before acting overtook ...
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    14,25 €

  • A Talent to Amuse
    Sheridan Morley
    “Forty years ago he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.” Kenneth Tynan (writing in 1953) Noel Coward, ‘the master’, is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of twentieth century entertainment. Prodigiously talented, he blazed a trail through theatre, film and song on both sides of the Atlantic. In the theatr...
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    13,89 €

  • Katharine Hepburn
    Barbara Leaming / Sheridan Morley
    KATHARINE HEPBURN ...
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    30,27 €

  • John Gielgud
    Sheridan Morley
    JOHN GIELGUD - THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY ...
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    22,28 €