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Lives and letters / Robert Gottlieb.

by Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

9780374298821 (alk. paper)

0374298823 (alk. paper)

xii, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Lives. Tallulah Bankhead -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Bruno Bettelheim -- Bing Crosby -- Serge Diaghilev -- Minou Drouet -- Isadora Duncan -- Eleonora Duse -- Douglas Fairbanks -- Margot Fonteyn -- Judy Garland -- Lillian Gish -- Francine Du Plessix Gray -- Katharine Hepburn -- Harry Houdini -- Joseph Jefferson -- Elia Kazan -- The Mitfords -- Scott Peterson -- The royals -- Porfirio Rubirosa -- Diana Vreeland -- Mae West -- The Windsors -- Anna May Wong -- Letters. Who was Charles Dickens? -- The years with Thurber -- The house that Gershwin built -- Max and Marjorie -- Becky in the movies -- Parsing the Thirties -- Analyze that: H.D., Bryher, and Freud -- Astaire to Zopy-Zopy -- Fast-talking dames -- The hitmaker: George S. Kaufman -- The storyteller: Rudyard Kipling -- Lit-flicks -- The case of John Steinbeck -- White House whodunits -- Scrutiny bound -- Coda. Personally speaking: Am I Judith Krantz? -- My New York City Ballet -- Ms. Adler, The New Yorker, and me.

Spotlights the works, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, along with some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times--the British royal family, a notorious gigolo, a puzzling criminal mind.

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