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Spoto, Donald was born on June 28, 1941 in New Rochelle, New York, United States. Son of Michael George and Anne Hortense (Werden) Spoto.
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Laurence Olivier was the most famous actor of his century, and one of the greatest of all time. His looks made him a matinee idol; his talent made him world renowned as an actor, director, and producer. From his stage roles as Hamlet and Archie Rice to his screen roles as Heathcliff and Henry V, his range was unparalleled. But beneath the glamorous image, Olivier was often lonely, confused, and plagued by self-doubts. In this revealing account, Spoto tells for the first time the truth about Olivier's three marriages - to the diffident lesbian actress Jill Esmond, to the haunted and doomed Vivien Leigh, and to the young Joan Plowright. Spoto also discusses Olivier's relationships with Noel Coward and Danny Kaye, who loved him. Amid these personal dramas, Laurence Olivier's professional life encompassed the history of the theater in his time. Based on formidable international research, this is a rich, definitive biography.
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This completely revised and updated edition of the classic text describes and analyzes every movie made by master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.
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Revealing and richly informative account of the dramatic life of one of the century's most famous screen actresses, Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a controversial woman whose affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini led to her being banned from the USA for seven years. Ingrid Bergman was the daughter of a Swedish father and German mother, who spent part of the 1930s in the German film industry. Her success in the Swedish film 'Intermezzo' (1936), where she played a concert pianist, led to her arrival in Hollywood in 1939, where she starred in 'Casablanca', three of Hitchcock's films ('Notorious', 'Spellbound' and 'Under Capricorn'), 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' (with Spencer Tracy), 'Gaslight', 'The Bells of St Mary's', 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', etc. Her roles, like her life, alternated between the saintly and the saucy, the innocent and the dissolute. At first America fell in love with her: she was uncommonly fresh, recognisably human, and (it seemed) a happily domesticated wife and mother. However, as Spoto shows, nothing was ever tame about Ingrid; her love affairs were intense, and her relationship with Rossellini scandalised America. Ingrid Bergman's work and life comprise a romantic drama that rivals the biographies of Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Jacqueline Kennedy. In forty-nine feature films, nine plays and countless public appearances, she enchanted millions over a period of five decades.
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Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto brings to life one of the most incandescent and elusive star to grace Hollywood, Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992). He has tapped archival materials and conducted dozens of interviews to present a life story filled with crucial new details: her hardships and struggles for recognition in 1920s Berlin; her transformation into a screen goddess; her entertainment of Allied troops during the World War II; and her stint as a nightclub singer in the 1950s. Spoto also includes accounts of her love affairs with Yul Brynner, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Eddie Fisher, general George S. Patton, Erich Maria Remarque, Frank Sinatra, and John Wayne.
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Spoto's biography of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe makes use of over 150 interviews and more than 35,000 pages of previously sealed files, including Monroe's diaries, letters, and other personal and revealing documents. The book reveals new details of every aspect of her life, from her guarded childhood, and her relationships with men and marriages, to her mysterious death. Spoto comments on previous books about Marilyn, and puts to rest questions regarding Monroe's connection with the Kennedys.
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A portrait of Elizabeth Taylor based upon personal journals and letters, production files, studio diaries, and interviews offers insight into her lifelong career, marriages, friendships, and successes. 100,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo. Serial rights to Good Housekeeping. Tour.
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"Faith is the soul’s true country, and prayer is its native language." With these words, author and theologian Donald Spoto begins his wide-ranging exploration of the most intimate form of communication and the deepest level of spirituality—prayer. With revolutionary insight, Spoto applies his scholarship in a book that addresses complex spiritual matters seriously but engagingly. In Silence investigates the various forms and types of prayer: prayer as dialogue, as petition, as forgiveness, as suffering, as abandonment, as serenity, as love, as transformation, and as silence. It also explores the role of prayer in the world’s great religions, drawing on those who have written compellingly about it: the compiler of the Book of Psalms, Augustine, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, Maimonides, Rumi, John Chapman, and dozens of others. Anyone attempting to live on a deeper level will welcome this inspiring book from one of the most popular and original thinkers in contemporary religion.
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Well researched and written account is an interesting read of one of the world's most fascinating women.
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From Publishers Weekly One of our most influential filmmakers, Sturges (1898-1959) paved the way for the likes of Orson Welles, Billy Wilder and Woody Allen, among others, not only in terms of cinematic style but as a screenwriter who earned the privilege of sole control over his projects. The first writer in cinema to direct his own work ( The Great McGinty , which earned Sturgis an Academy Award for best original screenplay in 1941), he also added the title of producer to his credits, most notably for his comedic masterpiece, Sullivan's Travels (1942), a quasi-autobiographical story about the need for laughter in the midst of adversity, considered by cultists to be one of the best films ever made. Spoto ( The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock ) has done his homework; the detail-filled book makes a major contribution to the study of American film. Insight and narrative flair, however, are where this effort falls short. Sturges, who was raised in Europe by an eccentric mother (and her even more flamboyant friend, Isadora Duncan), led a life more emotionally complicated and colorful than most characters found in fiction.
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A biography of the singer/actress Lotte Lenya, star of Cabaret and From Russia with Love, and famous for her interpretations of Weill and Brecht. The author has also written biographies of Tennessee Williams and Alfred Hitchcock.
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Spoto, Donald was born on June 28, 1941 in New Rochelle, New York, United States. Son of Michael George and Anne Hortense (Werden) Spoto.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Iona College, New Rochelle, 1963. Master of Arts, Fordham University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Fordham University, 1970.
Instructor Fairfield University, Connecticut, 1966-1968. Professor College New Rochelle, 1968-1974. Member faculty City University of New York, New York City, 1974-1975, New School for Social Research, New York City, 1975-1986.
Adjunct professor University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1987-1989. Visiting lecturer British Film Institute, National Film Theatre, London, 1980-1986. National lecturer American Film Institute, Washington, 1979-1982.
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