The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis A Personal Biography - Couverture souple

Chandler, Charlotte

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1416522220 ISBN 13 : 9781416522225

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2007

Synopsis

The Girl Who Walked Home Alone Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Just this short list of Bette Davis' films gives an unmistakable sense of the role she played in twentieth-century cinema as one of the finest performers in Hollywood history. Drawing on an extensive series of conversations that took place during the last decade of Bette Davis' life, this biography draws heavily on the actr... Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Compulsively readable'
The Scotsman
'Chandler gives us Bette in Bette's own words . . . Her statements on marriage and men are a delight'
Observer
Though she owed everything to her mother, Ruthie, Bette Davis remained fascinated all her life by her hard-to-please father, who walked out on his family. She never forgot the disappointment over his lack of interest and she believed that her resentment of him was probably a major factor in her four failed marriages. In The Girl Who Walked Home Alone Chandler recalls Davis speaking happily of her love affairs with Howard Hughes and William Wyler; remembering her leading men, favourite co-stars, and unloved rivals; and taking great care to refute the persistent Hollywood legend that she was difficult to work with.
Bette Davis's distinctive voice, remarkable eyes and astonishing range of characterization all combined to make her one of the finest performers in movie history. Drawing on extensive conversations with the great actress during the last decade of her life - it was she who suggested this book be written, Charlotte Chandler brings Bette Davis to life in these pages, a dynamic, forceful presence once again, just as she was on the screen.
'Engaging . . . if you're a fan you'll devour every word'
Scotland on Sunday
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Revue de presse :

'The high price of success in showbusiness often goes unnoticed unless a perceptive write reveals it to us, as Charlotte Chandler has done in her remarkable books about Groucho Marx, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock. Now, in The Girl Who Walked Home Alone, Chandler reveals Bette Davis as a valiant, often misunderstood heroine of the real star wars'
Sidney Sheldon
'Formidable. Brava, Charlotte Chandler!'
Michelangelo Antonioni
''Impassioned... A rich biography'
Mail on Sunday
'Engaging . . . if you're a fan you'll devour every word' Scotland on Sunday
'Compulsively readable' THE SCOTSMAN
'Davis wanted a 'summing up', to 'set the record straight', to be 'totally frank'. And she is. Chandler gives us Bette in Bette's own words . . . The book is brilliant on her motivations . . . Her statements on marriage and men, are a delight' OBSERVER
'You gotta love the grand old dame' - THE TIMES 19/8
‘Chandler’s biography...reads like one of the women’s pictures [David] excelled in, with Davis playing the part of the strong-willed but emotional heroine navigating the turbulent seas of male perfidy’
Financial Times

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1416522220
• ISBN 13: 9781416522225
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368