Donald Spoto: Possessed - The Life of Joan Crawford

USA 2010, 336pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 21.99
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Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. The biographer here goes beyond the popular caricature - the abusive, unstable mother portrayed in her adopted daughter Christina Crawford's memoir, »Mommie Dearest« - to give us a three-dimensional portrait of a very human woman, her dazzling career, ... Weiterlesen

Hazel Rowley: Franklin and Eleanor

An Extraordinary Marriage. USA 2010, 345pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbianism - and many scandals in between - the American public has never tired of speculating about the ties ... Weiterlesen

Charlotte Chandler: Mae West - She Always Knew How

A Personal Biography. USA 2010, 317pp., illustr., brochure, € 15.99
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Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West created a scandal and a sensation on Broadway with her play »Sex« in 1926. Convicted of obscenity, she was sentenced to a short prison term. She went to jail a convict but emerged a star. In Hollywood, she was the number one box-office attraction during the 1930s and saved Paramount Studios ... Weiterlesen

Blake Bailey: Cheever

A Life. USA 2010, 771 pp., brochure, € 14.39
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This is the story of a proud Yankee who flaunted his lineage while deploring the provincialism of his family circle: John Cheever - this struggling alcoholic and conflicted bisexual spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman. He was a high-school dropout who went on to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. It appears that ... Weiterlesen

Diana Souhami: Gertrude and Alice

UK/USA 2009, 300 pp., brochure, € 19.49
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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas met on Sunday 8 September 1907 in Paris. From that day on they were together until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. Everyone who was anyone went to their salons at 27 rue de Fleurus. They became a legendary couple, photographed by Stieglitz, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso and written ... Weiterlesen

Joan Schenkar: The Talented Miss Highsmith

The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. USA 2011, 656 pp., pb., € 34.95
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Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite »hero-criminal«, talented Tom Ripley. In this revolutionary biography of the author of »Strangers on a Train«, the biographer paints a riveting protrait - from Highsmith's birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, »Strangers on ... Weiterlesen

Lillian Faderman, Stuart Timmons: Gay L.A.

A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians. USA 2009, 431 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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This social, political and cultural history of lesbian and gay life in Los Angeles by two seasoned historians is easily the subject's definitive work. Presenting a wealth of fact and analysis, the authors breeze through the highlights of L.A. gay history. They begin with the suppression of Native Americans' sexual and gender expression by 16th-century Spanish missionaries, before exploring how ... Weiterlesen

David Bret: Clark Gable

Tormented Star. USA 2008, 287 pp., brochure, € 14.89
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Clarke Gable - the archetypal male of his era. He was named »King of Hollywood« in 1938. But as the author of this uncensored biography reveals, the star was not quite who he seemed. One of Gable's best-kept secrets was his bisexuality. Bret recounts Gable's failed marriages to women who turned a blind eye toward his affairs with actors Earl ... Weiterlesen

Janet Malcolm: Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

USA/UK 2008, 229 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?« Janet Malcolm askes at the beginning of this literary biography. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master »whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness«, and »thin, plain, tense, sour« Alice B. Toklas, the »worker bee« who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their 40 years of ... Weiterlesen

Ed Sikov: Dark Victory - The Life of Bette Davis

USA 2008, 479 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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The biggest surprise of Sikov's new Bette Davis biography is that there are still fascinating details to be discovered after more than a dozen full-length biographies have been devoted to her since her 1989 death. Sikov follows the volatile actress's long career, specifying how her insecurities and craving for love propelled her into the dueling self-medications of liquor and acting. ... Weiterlesen

Joanne Passet: Sex Variant Woman

The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster. USA 2008, 353 pp., hardback, € 0.00
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Jeannette Howard Foster's life illuminates lesbian history at several critical junctures: the waning of the romantic friendship, the sexually charged 1920s, the pre-World War II era of invisibility, the repressive 1950s, and the 1970s movement culture that emerged in the wake of the civil rights, feminist, and gay rights movements. This is the biography of the long-neglected, firebrand author of ... WeiterlesenDieser Titel ist leider vergriffen, wir versuchen aber gern, ihn bei Interesse antiquarisch zu besorgen.

Pagan Kennedy: The First Man-Made Man

USA 2008, 214 pp., brochure, € 12.39
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In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition, and there was no known solution. During a time when plastic surgery and synthetic hormones were in their infancy, Dillon pursued a course of action that was both socially unheard of and potentially life threatening. From upper-class ... Weiterlesen

Janet Malcolm: Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

USA 2007, 229 pp., hardback, € 21.29
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»How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?« Janet Malcolm askes at the beginning of this literary biography. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master »whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness«, and »thin, plain, tense, sour« Alice B. Toklas, the »worker bee« who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their 40 years of ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Kate

UK 2007, 621 pp., Pb, € 15.95
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On screen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine Hepburn: a Connecticut Yankee, outspoken and elegant, bristling at Hollywood glitter. Hepburn won her 4th Oscar aged 74 and across seven decades in the public eye, she was a cut above the usual screen queen. Now, her biographer ... Weiterlesen

David Bret: Joan Crawford

USA 2007, 299 S., hardback, € 24.89
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Biographer David Bret tells of Joan Crawford's rags-to-riches climb, from working in a Kansas City laundry to collecting an Oscar , and on to her devotion to Christian Science and reliance to vodka. He discusses the star's legendary relationship with Clark Gable, her countless love affairs, her marriages - three of them to gay men - and her obsession with ... Weiterlesen

Charles Winecoff: Anthony Perkins

USA 2006, 449 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Paramount groomed him to replace James Dean and become Hollywood's hottest hertthrob. But his landmark performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's »Psycho« killed that - and spawned an image of Anthony »Tony« Perkins that eerily paralleled his conflicted, fractured off-screen life. These performances overwhelmed Perkins's career - increasingly during the decades leading up to his death from AIDS at ... Weiterlesen

Carolyn Soutar: The Real Nureyev

USA 2006, 192pp., hardback, € 22.99
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This backstage memoir takes an intimate look at the complicated life and outrageous times of ballet's greatest hero Rudolf Nureyev. The biographer, who worked with Nureyev in London during the 1980s, focuses on a period of Nureyev's life when his career was drawing to a close and this once phenomenal dancer began to call himself »Old Galoshes«, in recognition of ... Weiterlesen

Johnette Howard: The Rivals

USA 2005, 297 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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For 16 years, Evert and Navratilova faced each other on the tennis court many times in finals. The author tells the story of how these two women came together from disparate worlds and founded a complicated though lasting friendship. Evert, the charming, ponytailed daughter of a middle-class, all-American family, captured many fans' hearts when she arrived on the scene at ... Weiterlesen