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Any actor can become a star, but it takes a special kind of man to become an icon and a legend. Men like Clark Gable, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, and Tom Hanks were possessed by a passion to be the best, a burning thirst for success transformed them into Gods of the Silver Screen. These men of action, romance, comedy, and drama have delighted audiences for generations. Hear the intimate details of their journeys to stardom. Explore their personalities, as divulged by those who knew them best. Listen to the secrets of their private lives in these revealing confessions. ... Read more

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Gods of the Silver Screen
this is not a narrated documentary series.this is a dvd that tells of the movies that these actors appeared in.does not tell about the actor of about the actor's life or career, just tells of the movies they were in.this was terrible, I wanted to hear about the actors, gossup, life trials and tribulations, anything that would help me to know them. this was a dissapointment. ... Read more

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Chapters: Joan Crawford, Doris Day, Marlon Brando, Milton Berle, Dalton Trumbo, Val Kilmer, Howard Hawks, Ginger Rogers, Michael Nesmith, Danielle Steel, Henry Fonda, Theodore Dreiser, King Vidor, H. R. Haldeman, Mary Baker Eddy, Robert Duvall, Joseph Cornell, Anna May Wong, Thomas M. Davis, Henry Paulson, Chris Shays, David Dreier, Clara Clemens, Septimus J. Hanna, Carol Channing, Bliss Knapp, Owen Brewster, Stansfield Turner, Dick Powell, Alfre Woodard, William R. Rathvon, Bob Goodlatte, Charles H. Percy, Kay Kyser, John Ehrlichman, John H. Cade, Jr., Mina Loy, William H. Webster, Lamar S. Smith, Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., Leatrice Joy, W. S. Van Dyke, John David Carson, Jean Stapleton, Egil Krogh, David Liebe Hart, Georgia Engel, Scott Mccallum, Adin Brown, Dody Goodman, Ralph Lawrence Carr, Kitty Cheatham, Virginia Harris, Bette Nesmith Graham, Laurance Doyle, Georgia Hale, Thomas P. Griesa, Augusta Emma Stetson, Malcolm Frager, Kenny Baker, Robert Peel, Edith Roberts, John D. Works, Blanche Calloway, Helen St. John, Marion Bloom, Fred B. Balzar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 462. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 February 2, 1961) was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio. Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Wong became a fashion icon, and by 1924 had achieved international star...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=781005 ... Read more

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En 1954 recibió el Oscar por su actuación en la Ley del Silencio y en 1973 se le concedió por El Padrino, que rechazó en protesta por cómo la industria del cine presenta a los indios. Su vida estuvo marcada por la trajedia de su hijo encarcelado por asesinato, y el suicidio de su hija. ... Read more

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1974 - 1st Edition - Delacorte Press - Hardcover - Bud: The Brando I Knew - The Untold story of Brando's private life - By Carlo Fiore - Biography - Photos throughout - VG Condition - Collectible ... Read more

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Hard to find book
This was a hard to find book. When it arrived it was packed with extra care and it arrived quickly. ... Read more

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Entertainment Weekly, July 16, 2004. Cover story is a tribute to the recently deceased Marlon Brando ... Read more

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Marlon Brando was one of the most private superstars in modern times, who only stepped into the lime light to promote a new film or causes close to his heart. While several books exist based on that material, there has never been a personal biography with a first-hand view of the inner sanctum until George Englund's "Marlon Brando: The Naked Actor". Having been repeatedly urged to write by Brando himself (as he had been given his first Hollywood break by Brando), Englund started this memoir in earnest a few months before Brando died on 1 July 2004 in order to capture the real Brando behind the star. Looking back in time, Englund writes down his incisive memories from when he befriended the young Marlon in 1954 then on the cusp of his meteoric rise as the sex symbol equivalent of Marilyn Monroe and the beginning of becoming a close confidant for almost fifty years from whom Brando sought frank advice. Englund draws on stories from Jackie Kennedy to Marilyn Monroe that only he and Brando knew. But he also shows how the seeds of decline and suspicion were there from the start.From the stories a young actor emerges who was beautiful in every way - driven by his instinctive talent to break new ground, athletic, muscular, seductive, intelligent and generous. Gradually, however, Brando turned into the very person whom he loathed his father and humiliated at every turn. Overweight and trying to diet on a regime of his own invention, he was overcome by inertia at the end of his life in all - even his famed powers of seduction - but his talent. ... Read more

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This unique collection of humorous and thoughtful quotes from some of Hollywood's greatest actors, directors, and others in the industry includes memorable sayings from Woody Allen ("I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens"), Bill Cosby, Robert Mitchum, Marlon Brando, Mae West ("I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign"), and many others. Black-and-white photos. (Great Quotations Publications) ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Thomson Gale on February 13, 2004. The length of the article is 474 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Marlon Brando: el rostro impenetrable.(notas sobre vida y obra de actor)(exposición-homenaje en el Museo del Cinema de Girona)
Author: Belén Lorenzana
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 13, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 991Page: 78(1)

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This digital document is an article from Contenido, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1807 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Marlon Brando, "el dios actor": llamado así por la revista premiere, fue el creador de un estilo inigualable que redefinió a las estrellas masculinas del cine y sirvió de inspiración a grandes actores como James Dean, Paul Newman, Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, John Malkovich, Sean Penn y Edward Norton.(Biografía)
Author: Alejandro León
Publication: Contenido (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 533Page: 104(6)

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