Based on one-on-one interviews and the viewing of numerous films, Mick LaSalle here puts together a fascinating profile of recent generations of French film stars and an overview of their best work.
Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talent-a Golden Age unlike anything the world has seen since the days of Stanwyck, Hepburn, Davis, and Garbo. In France, the joy of acting is alive and well. Score…
When a prisoner writes to a movie star, the best he can hope for is a signed photo, if that. But when Alex Alexandrowicz wrote to actress Fiona Fullerton, he didn't expect it to lead to a friendship spanning over 30 years. Serving two discretionary life sentences, Alex was a Cat…
The extraordinary story of Fiona Fullerton's secret correspondence with life sentence prisoner and suspected cold war spy Alex Alexandrovich.
Mary Wickes: I know I've seen that face before
Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the life of a complicated woman who brou…
Hiroshima mon amour: scénario et dialogue
by Duras, Marguerite, Resnais, Alain
fromCollection Folio
Shakespeare's women and the fin de sicle
Shakespeare's women and the fin de siècle
Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siecle performances of…
Shakespeare's women and the "fin de siècle"
Shakespeare's women and the fin de siecle
Shakespeare's women and the Fin de Siècle
Sophie Duncan illuminates iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and careers of the actresses who played them. Duncan draws on a wealth of archival material to explore the vital ways in which fin-de-siècl…
Shakespeare's women and the fin de siècle
"Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siècle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and wider careers of the actresses who played them. By bringing together fin-de-siècle performances o…
"This book contains some stories from my life: the awkward growing-up years, the confusing dating years, the fulfilling work years, and what it was like to be asked to play one of my favorite characters again. Also included: tales of living on a houseboat, meeting guys at awards…
"Marianne Faithfull has been an actress and model as well as a musician who has released more than a dozen albums over five decades. She first entered the public sphere in 1964 with the song "As Tears Go By," which also was recorded by the Rolling Stones, and she is still best k…