Drawing on interviews with Ingmar Bergman and Max von Sydow amongst others, Barry Paris examines the "brooding northern soul" that defined Garbo's work and personality and which was rooted in an unhappy childhood. Her later relationships with G.W. Pabst, Louis B. Mayer, John Gilbert, George Cukov and Ernst Lubitsch are explored as are some of her lesser-known friendships with women, notably Pola Negri, Lillian Gish and Ava Gardner. He also considers the question of whether Garbo actually intended to retire from the cinema - and brings to light the secret final years of her life.

Garbo: A biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Paris, Barry

Arts & Literature

Sidgwick Jackson Ltd

Biography of the noted silent film star of two continents, who dazzled audiences, conversation, and memory

Louise Brooks

Anchor

KNOPF

The author of Louise Brooks presents a full-scale portrait of the legendary and enigmatic actress, drawing on previously unavailable source material to provide a revealing look at her life, career, and personal relationships. 20,000 first printing. Movie/Entertainment Alt.

Garbo: A Biography

A detailed and revealing biography of Audrey Hepburn includes never-before-published photographs that complement coverage of her traumatic childhood in Nazi-occupied Europe, her award-winning film performances, and her humanitarian endeavors.

Audrey Hepburn

G.P.Putnam's Sons

The most ambitious and personal account ever written about Hollywood's most gracious star-Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris is a "moving portrayal" (The New York Times Book Review) that truly captures the woman who captured our hearts... With the insights of family and friends who never before spoke to a Hepburn biographer-and never-before-published photographs-Paris has created an in-depth portrait of the actress, from her childhood in Nazi-occupied Europe, through her legendary career, and into her UN ambassadorship.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Penguin Publishing Group

The uncensored, anecdotal memoirs of a Hollywood legend chronicles Curtis's journey from the streets of New York, to worldwide success, to the insanity of alcohol and drug abuse, to a new life. 125,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Tony Curtis: The Autobiography

Curtis, Tony.

William Morrow & Co.

Audrey Hepburn, slim, dark, almost waif-like, was a star in an age that favoured well-upholstered blondes; her vitality, innocence and beguiling eyes overrode contemporary conventions of beauty and transported her to the top of Hollywood's tree. In tracking down a number of her closest friends and relations, including international financier Lord Hanson, and talking for the first time to her two husbands, Paris has written the most complete biography of Hepburn to date.

Audrey Hepburn : A Biography

Community & Culture

Orion an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

In 1922, at age fifteen, Louise Brooks left Wichita, Kansas, for New York City, embarking on a lifetime of legendary adventures, successes, and mysteries. From her early career as a dancer to her years as a film star in Hollywood and Berlin, she was hailed and reviled as a completely new type of woman: independent, intellectually daring, and sexually free. In this widely acclaimed, first and only comprehensive biography of the celebrity-cum-recluse, Barry Paris traces Brooks's trajectory from her childhood to international fame, through her notorious fall into obscurity and her subsequent "resurrection" as a brilliant writer and enduring film icon.

Louise Brooks: A Biography

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and the Devil, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Ninotchka. In this richly illustrated volume, renowned biographer Barry Paris offers the definitive biography of this fascinating and complex woman -- from her hardscrabble childhood in Sweden to her arrival in Hollywood at the age of nineteen, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her unintentional retirement from filmmaking at the height of her fame, from the new life she crafted for herself to her surprising, and failed, plans for a comeback. Drawing on hitherto unavailable material, including one hundred hours of tape-recorded conversations, fifty years of correspondence, and interviews with Garbo's surviving friends and family, Paris reveals the real woman behind the enigma.

Garbo

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Garbo: A biography

Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

Garbo: A Biography

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

Tony Curtis: The Autobiography

Audrey Hepburn : A Biography

Louise Brooks: A Biography

Garbo