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Charlotte Chandler
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Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was perhaps best known for her roles in ÊCasablancaÊ and ÊNotoriousÊ but she won three Oscars for ÊGaslightÊ ÊAnastasiaÊ and ÊMurder on the Orient ExpressÊ and was a seven-time nominee. She also won two Emmy Awards and a Tony. In 1949 though married and a mother she fell in love with director Roberto Rossellini and conceived a child with him. Her fans were shocked and she was denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Chandler interviewed Bergman Roberto Rossellini Alfred Hitchcock Martin Scorsese Cary Grant Michelangelo Antonioni Federico Fellini and Gregory Peck for the book which contains synopses of all her films including the Swedish ones.
In Marlene, Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich is vividly brought to life. In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler interviewed the reclusive actress in Dietrich's Paris apartment. The star's career was all but over, but she agreed to meet because Chandler hadn't known her earlier, “when âDietrichã was young and very beautiful.” Marlene is further enriched by Chandler's interviews with others who knew Dietrich well, including Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Burt Bacharach. Chandler relates how Dietrich began her career in her native Berlin as a model, then a stage and screen actress during the silent era, becoming a star with The Blue Angel, then moving on to become one of the brightest lights in Hollywood. Prior to World War II, the fiercely anti-Nazi Dietrich resisted Hitler's flattering invitations to return to Germany and became an American citizen instead, later entertaining Allied troops on the front lines. After the war, she embarked on a new, outstanding second career as a stage performer. Dietrich had a strict Prussian upbringing, but she refused to be constrained by society's expectations. She spoke candidly with Chandler about her unconventional marriage; she and her husband both had affairs, each with the other's consent. She even expressed warm feelings toward her husband's mistress. Marlene Dietrich lived an extraordinary life, and Marlene relies extensively on the star's own words to reveal how intriguing and fascinating that life really was.
Actress playwright screenwriter and iconic sex symbol Mae West (1893-1980) created a scandal and a sensation on Broadway with her play ESexE in 1926. Convicted of obscenity she was sentenced to ten days in prison. She went to jail a convict but emerged a star. Later in Hollywood she was the number one box-office attraction during the 1930s and saved Paramount Studios from bankruptcy. Her films included some notorious one-liners a which she wrote herself a that have become part of Hollywood lore. But behind the clever quips was Mae's deep desire decades before the word feminism was in the news to see women treated equally with men. She saw through the double standard of the time that permitted men to do things that women would be ruined for doing. Her cause was sexual equality and she was shrewd enough to know that it was perhaps the ultimate battleground.THIn EShe Always Knew HowE Charlotte Chandler draws on a series of extensive interviews that she conducted with Mae West just months before the star's death. Chandler also spoke with actors and directors who knew and worked with Mae the man with whom she lived for the last twenty-seven years of her life and her close assistant. Their insights enrich this fascinating book.
Joan Crawford (1908-1977) was best known for her starring roles in EThe WomenE EGrand HotelE EMildred PierceE for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress EJohnny GuitarE and EWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?E Charlotte Chandler's fascinating and intimate portrait includes interviews with Crawford; her first husband Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; Bette Davis; and Myrna Loy and is perhaps her finest biography yet.
When Charlotte Chandler called Groucho Marx for an interview, he answered the phone himself. Declining to be interviewed, he invited her over to his house so he could tell her no in person. After talking with her for hours, Groucho asked, "Why aren't you writing?" Hello, I Must Be Going is the story of Groucho and the Marx Brothers, told through Groucho's everyday conversations with Charlotte Chandler and his friends. And what a group of friends they were Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson, Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Marvin Hamlisch, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Sidney Sheldon, and dozens of others walk through the pages of this fascinating book. Anyone interested in Groucho or the Marx Brothers, or who wants to spend a few hours in fabulous company, will find this book irresistible.
Noted film biographer Charlotte Chandler interviewed Bette Davis extensively in the last decade of her life resulting in a biography in which the great actress speaks for herself. Chandler also spoke with directors actors and others who knew and worked with Davis and includes brief synopses of all of her theatrical films.THHere are some more examples of Bette's wit to be found within these pages:TH I'm the one who didn't get the man which is the more interesting character on the screen but in real life sometimes I wish I could just have been the girl who got the man and kept him. I got four husbands and several lovers but I didn't keep any of them. I was invited to the White House but no man stayed to share my white cottage. TH My favorite actor with whom I never played professionally or personally was Laurence Olivier. I admired everything about him. He was a great actor and he was my dream man. Literally and figuratively. Larry was my fantasy lover the perfect man or at least I thought he would be. He was not only beautiful but intelligent.
