Grace The Secret Lives of a Princess

James Spada

Penquin

A pictorial biography of Marilyn Monroe chronicles the personal life and film career of the actress and captures the special qualities that made her a legendary star

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Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

DOUBLEDAY COMPANY

Edition; 1st ed. Physical description; 249 pages. Subjects; Streisand, Barbra. Singers - United States - Biography. Genres; Biography. Illustrated.

Streisand : The Woman and the Legend

Doubleday/Dolphin

Peter Lawford starred in films like "Easter Parade" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and was known for his involvement with many of Hollywood's top names. But he is best remembered for his connections with the Kennedy family and as the man who introduced John F.Kennedy to Marilyn Monroe. After marrying Kennedy's sister in 1956, he was privy to the secrets and scandal that surrounded that elite family and its circle, but Lawford took his secrets with him to the grave. Now, through interviews with Lawford's friends and access to his personal papers and to FBI documents, James Spada has pieced together this biography which includes accounts of how Lawford led Kennedy on "girl-hunting" expeditions and how he would pick up Monroe and drive her to meet the President. Lawford is known to have been the last person to see Monroe alive, and the book deals with the events leading to her death. The author's other biographies include "Grace: The Secret Life of a Princess" and "Monroe: Her Life in Pictures".

Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Bantam Books, New York

A photograph-filled portrait of one of the great stars of our time presents Streisand as singer, composer, actress, writer, director, producer, and celebrity and seeks the person behind the many roles

Streisand: The Woman and the Legend

Pocket

A biography of Bette Davis, revealing a life replete with scandal, sex, violence, courage, sacrifice and heartbreak. After three years of research and more than 150 interviews, James Spada has written a revealing biography of one of the greatest Hollywood Legends. Spada has convinced Bette Davis's relatives and friends to speak out for the first time, and he has gained new access to court documents, long-lost inquest transcript, and personal correspondence to paint a portrait of one of the most complex and misrepresented women in Hollywood history. This book reveals Bette Davis' oddly close relationship with her mother (who bathed her until she was in her teens); her ambivalent feelings about the sex act, as revealed by a director/lover; her possible role in the brain damage of her adopted daughter; the bizarre behaviour of her husband Gary Merrill and the vicious custody battle for their son, Michael; her pursuit of much younger men she entered her sixties; and her tragic and courageous last days.

Bette Davies: More Than A Woman

Warner

Streisand: The Intimate Biography

Time Warner Paperbacks*

HEPBURN

Columbus Books Ltd

Now 52 years old, Barbara Streisand received the highest price ever paid to a performer in one night - one million dollars on New Year's Eve in 1993 in Las Vegas. James Spada's portrait of this highly accomplished woman is also a depiction of modern American showbiz - Greenwich Village clubs in the 1960s; Broadway's brash musicals; and Hollywood in the last 30 years, when the studio system broke down when confronted by ambitious independent companies like Streisand's. Once married to actor Elliot Gould, she has had affairs with Omar Sharif, Ryan O'Neal, Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Canada's former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, Richard Gere and tennis champion Andre Agassi. Although she is a multi-millionaire living in Los Angeles, she never seems to have left Brooklyn. It is her sense of reality that James Spada seeks to portray in this biography.

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