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Bedside Hollywood : great scenes from movie memoirs / edited by Robert Atwan and Bruce Forer ; foreword by Jack Kroll.
LIBRA PN1998.A2 B414 1985 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : M. Bell : Nimbus Books, [1985]
- Summary:
- Great scenes from movie memoirs.
- Contents:
- The birth of little Ricky / Desi Arnaz
- "A bad girl" / Elizabeth Ashley
- "What was it like to kiss Clark Gable?" / Mary Astor
- "The most famous reindeer of all" / Gene Autry
- "You know how to whistle ..." / Lauren Bacall
- Casablanca's other ending / Ingrid Bergman
- A date with Judy Garland / Dirk Bogarde
- Humphrey and Bogey / Louise Brooks
- Liz at first sight / Richard Burton
- I never said, "You dirty rat" / James Cagney
- The tramp / Charles Chaplin
- Coming of age in Hollywood / Jackie Cooper
- "The ears are wingy" / Bing Crosby
- The rat pack / Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Lucky Liz / Eddie Fisher
- "In like Flynn" / Errol Flynn
- Money is sexy / Joan Fontaine
- The birth of The birth of a nation / Lillian Gish
- All the president's men / William Goldman
- An actor's life / Charlton Heston
- You've got to have a gimmick / Veronica Lake
- Psycho: what to wear in the shower? / Janet Leigh
- A handsome man and a monkey / Jerry Lewis
- A laugh, a scream and a laugh / Harold Lloyd
- What killed Jean Harlow / Anita Loos
- Jackpot / Shirley MacLaine
- Duck soup meets The waste land / Groucho Marx
- A gentleman from center field / Marilyn Monroe
- The prince and the showgirl / Laurence Olivier
- "Hi there, Sherlock" / Basil Rathbone
- Win one for the Gipper / Ronald Reagan
- Little caesar / Edward G. Robinson
- How to throw a pie / Max Sennett
- The eternal male / Omar Sharif
- The kiss heard 'round the world / Robert Stack
- Sunset boulevard / Gloria Swanson
- A stab of relief / Lana Turner
- "You're a hell of a sheik" / Rudolph Valentino
- My little chickadee / Mae West
- "Follow me to Shangri-la" / Shelley Winters.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0918825113
- 9780918825117
- OCLC:
- 12344882
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