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Dropped names : famous men and women as I knew them / Frank Langella.
Van Pelt Library PN2287.L2836 A3 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langella, Frank, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Langella, Frank.
- Langella, Frank--Friends and associates.
- Actors--United States--Biography.
- Actors.
- Friends and associates.
- United States.
- Actors--United States--Anecdotes.
- Celebrities--Anecdotes.
- Celebrities.
- Friendship.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 363 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harper Perennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2013.
- Summary:
- Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight; Elizabeth Taylor tenderly wrapping him in her Pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York street. Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank Langella's myriad encounters with some of the past century's most famous human beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes shocking, and utterly irresistible. With sharp wit and a perceptive eye, Mr. Langella takes us with him into the private worlds and privileged lives of movie stars, presidents, royalty, literary lions, the social elite, and the greats of the Broadway stage. We learn something, too, of Mr. Langella's personal journey from the age of fifteen to the present day. "Dropped Names" is, like its subjects, riveting and unforgettable.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Marilyn Monroe
- Charles Laughton
- John F. Kennedy
- Montgomery Clift
- Billie Burke
- Noel Coward
- Lee Strasberg
- Celia Johnson
- Dolores del Rio
- James Mason
- Richard Burton
- Yul Brynner
- Elsa Lanchester
- Rita Hayworth
- Laurence Olivier
- Bette Davis
- Rex Harrison
- Coral Browne
- Colleen Dewhurst
- Anthony Perkins
- Stella Adler
- Cameron Mitchell
- Tip O'Neill
- Dinah Shore
- Gilbert Roland
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Jessica Tandy
- Raul Julia
- Ida Lupino
- David Begelman
- Jo Van Fleet
- Robert Mitchum
- Princess Diana
- Roddy McDowall
- Paul Mellon
- Oliver Reed
- George C. Scott
- Loretta Young
- Roger Vadim
- John Gielgud
- Anthony Quinn
- John Frankenheimer
- The Queen Mother
- Al Hirschfeld
- Hume Cronyn
- Elia Kazan
- Alan Bates
- Arthur Miller
- Anne Bancroft
- Maureen Stapleton
- William Styron
- Yvonne de Carlo
- Brooke Astor
- Deborah Kerr
- Charlton Heston
- Paul Newman
- William Gibson
- Ricardo Montalban
- Dominick Dunne
- Tony Curtis
- Jill Clayburgh
- Norris Church
- Susannah York
- Elizabeth Taylor.
- Notes:
- "A memoir"--Cover.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel P. Orlando Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780062094490
- 0062094491
- OCLC:
- 857653435
- Publisher Number:
- 99990121817
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