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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Joan Crawford, Doris Day, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Kay Kyser, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, Mina Loy, Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian, Martin Melcher, Blanche Calloway, Marion Bloom. Excerpt:Blanche Calloway (February 9, 1904 - December 16, 1978) was a Jazz singer , bandleader , and composer from Baltimore, Maryland . She is not as well known as her younger brother Cab Calloway , but she may have been the first woman to lead an all male orchestra. Cab Calloway often credited her with being the reason he got into show business. She made her first recordings in 1925, with Louis Armstrong as a sideman on the session. She recorded with a number of groups from the late 1920s through 1935, recording with Ruben Reeves and his River Boys in 1929 and fronting the Andy Kirk band briefly before forming Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys (with several members of that organization). In 1938 she disbanded the orchestra and worked as a solo act. In 1939 she converted to the Church of Christ, Scientist From the 1950s through the 1970s, she worked as a disc jockey and later program director at WMBM in Florida. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Doris Day Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff ; April 3, 1922) is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental Journey ", and, in 1948, appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas . During her entertainment career, she had appeared in thirty-nine films, recorded more than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award , and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in mot... ... Read more

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Title: FRANK AND FEARLESS.(photographing actress Joan Crawford by photojournalist Eve Arnold)(Critical Essay)
Author: Florence Jacobowitz
Publication: CineAction (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: CineAction
Page: 14

Article Type: Critical Essay

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Chapters: American Christian Scientists, British Christian Scientists, Canadian Christian Scientists, Joan Crawford, Doris Day, Marlon Brando, Milton Berle, Dalton Trumbo, Mary Pickford, Val Kilmer, Howard Hawks, Ginger Rogers, Michael Nesmith, Danielle Steel, Henry Fonda, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Theodore Dreiser, King Vidor, H. R. Haldeman, Mary Baker Eddy, Robert Duvall, Joseph Cornell, Anna May Wong, Thomas M. Davis, Henry Paulson, Chris Shays, Colleen Dewhurst, 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, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, 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, Frank Johnston, 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: 491. 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 fil...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=781005 ... Read more

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Hand signed publicity photo of of the famous actress Joan Crawford. Very Good, heavy photo stock with autograph in faint blue ballpoint pen ink. The signature is faint, having faded with age, but is visible in the upper left quadrant of the photo. It reads: "Hello to John Oliner from Joan Crawford".It comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from North American Rarities. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Joan Crawford, Robert Rodriguez, Tully Blanchard, Alberto Gonzales, Ann Harding, Dustin Lance Black, Florence Bates, Oliver North, Rick Riordan, David Scott, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Christopher Cross, Jose Lothario, David Wesley, William Henry Keeler, Jeremy Tucker, Bruce Mcgill, Edward White, Wilmer Allison, Jessica Drake, Justin Olsen, John E. Blaha, Justin Cage, Penny Drake, Stephen Herek, Will Lee, Eddie Lawson, Percy Sutton, Yolanda Saldívar. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Joan Crawford, de son vrai nom Lucille Fay LeSueur, est une actrice et une productrice américaine née le 23 mars 1905 à San Antonio au Texas et décédée le 10 mai 1977 à New York. Joan Crawford est l'une des stars les plus symboliques de l'âge d'or d'Hollywood. Sa carrière couvre, sur plus de quarante ans, les différentes époques des grands studios américains. Elle joua les filles délurées (les « flappers ») des années folles, les jeunes femmes arrivistes dans les années 1930, les femmes victimes dans des mélodrames des années 1940 et 50. Elle obtient un Oscar en 1945 pour Le Roman de Mildred Pierce. Elle a été l'une des actrices américaines dont l'étoile a brillé le plus longtemps et la seule vedette du muet qui soit demeurée encore une grande star au cours des années 1960. Joan Crawford dans les années 20D'origine modeste et de parents séparés avant sa naissance, Lucille Fay LeSueur se passionne pour la scène et le spectacle dès son plus jeune âge (son beau-père, qui quitte également sa mère, est propriétaire d'un théâtre à Lawton en Oklahoma). Elle adopte, en même temps que le pseudonyme de son beau-père, un nom de scène : Billie Cassin. Âgée d'à peine douze ans, elle effectue divers travaux ménagers, elle travaille ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Joan Crawford, Paula Zahn, Jeane Kirkpatrick, William Inge, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Mitchell, Clarence Cannon, Annie Potts, Gordon Gilkey, Jonathan Holden, Dawn Wells, Martha Beall Mitchell, Shirley Adele Field, Frances Crowe, Ashley Litton, Emily J. Reynolds, Homer Rainey, William Ashbrook, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Karith Foster. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. 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: Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 May 10, 1977) was an American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well-received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled "box office poison". After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company, through her marriage to company president Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forcibly retired in 1973. She continued acting in film and television regularly thro...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=45969 ... Read more

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In the second novel of the Tinseltown trilogy, Joan Crawford returns to MGM in 1953. Her comeback to her alma mater is to make the garish musical Torch Song. Joan suspects that it’s hokum, and that she’s getting too old for such parts, but she is desperate to make it work. That includes living at the studio in her dressing room during production. All the while, a psycho killer Joan Crawford drag queen stalks Hollywood to eliminate other Joan Crawford drag queens, and Joan is so strung out on vodka and super strength diet pills that she isn’t sure if she has taken up murder herself. Her gay best friend is poised ready to help her party. A powerful gangster is only interested in saving her reputation until death, and her loyal hairdresser has a son who has his own sneaky Joan Crawford secrets. The final epic showdown between Joan Crawford and Joan Crawford is beyond any movie ending ever filmed. ... Read more

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Chapters: Converts to Christian Science, Former Christian Scientists, Joan Crawford, Doris Day, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Joseph Blatchford, James Hetfield, Jean Harlow, List of Christian Scientists, Spalding Gray, Kay Kyser, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, Mina Loy, William Everson, Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian, Charles Brigham, Martin Melcher, Blanche Calloway, Marion Bloom, Lists of Christian Scientists. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. 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: Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, (19 May 1879 2 May 1964) was the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons. (Constance Markiewicz was the first woman elected to the House of Commons in December 1918 after running for the Sinn Féin party in 1918 General Election, but in line with Sinn Féin's abstentionist policy she did not take her seat. Markiewicz was also detained in Holloway Prison at the time.) Nancy Astor represented the Conservative Party and was the wife of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor. Astor was born Nancy Witcher Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, in the United States. Her father was Chiswell Dabney Langhorne and her mother was Nancy Witcher Keene. Her father's earlier business venture had depended at least in part upon slave labor and had been badly damaged by the fallout from the American Civil War, causing the family to live in near-poverty for several years before Nancy was born. After her birth her father began working to regain the family wealth, first with a job as an auctioneer and later with a job that he obtained with the railroad by using old contacts from his work as a contractor. By the time she was thirteen years old, the Langhornes were again a rich family with a sizeable home. Chiswell Langhorne later moved the fa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=59363 ... Read more