Lives and letters
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Contents
- 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.