The Fixers
Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine
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Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of Hollywood and little-remembered even there, but as General Manager and Head of Publicity for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, they lorded over all the stars in Hollywood’s golden age from the 1920s through the 1940s—including legends like Garbo, Dietrich, Gable and Garland.
When MGM stars found themselves in trouble, it was Eddie and Howard who took care of them—solved their problems, hid their crimes, and kept their secrets. They were “the Fixers.” At a time when image meant everything and the stars were worth millions to the studios that owned them, Mannix and Strickling were the most important men at MGM.
Through a complex web of contacts in every arena, from reporters and doctors to corrupt police and district attorneys, they covered up some of the most notorious crimes and scandals in Hollywood history, keeping stars out of jail and, more importantly, their names out of the papers. They handled problems as diverse as the murder of Paul Bern (husband of MGM’s biggest star, Jean Harlow), the studio-directed drug addictions of Judy Garland, the murder of Ted Healy (creator of The Three Stooges) at the hands of Wallace Beery, and arranging for an unmarried Loretta Young to adopt her own child—a child fathered by a married Clark Gable.
Through exhaustive research and interviews with contemporaries, this is the never-before-told story of Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling. The dual biography describes how a mob-related New Jersey laborer and the quiet son of a grocer became the most powerful men at the biggest studio in the world.
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The Fixer
- Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn
- De: Josh Young, Manfred Westphal
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays, Manfred Westphal
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 192
During the height of Hollywood’s golden age, one man lorded over the city’s lurid underbelly of forbidden sin and celebrity scandal like no other: Fred Otash. An ex-Marine turned L.A.P.D. vice cop, Otash became the most sought-after private detective and fixer to the stars by specializing in the dark arts that would soon dominate the entertainment industry. The Fixer delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood’s most infamous private detective and “fixer” to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative files.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For Hollywood gossip lovers!
- De Janna Wong Healy en 06-01-24
De: Josh Young, y otros
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James Arness
- An Autobiography
- De: James Arness, James E. Wise Jr.
- Narrado por: Mike Hennessy
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
James Arness gives the full story on his early years, his family, his military career and his film work in Hollywood, including appearances in the cult-favorite science fiction movies Them! and The Thing. He had a very long run on television’s Gunsmoke and a role in the miniseries How The West Was Won. His post-theatrical period is also covered. This is the long anticipated account of one of the icons of 20th–century television.
De: James Arness, y otros
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Inside Gilligan's Island
- From Creation to Syndication
- De: Sherwood Schwartz
- Narrado por: Mike Hennessy
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 13
While every new TV series has to face some problems, no show had to overcome greater obstacles than Gilligan's Island. In spite of that, no series has achieved greater success, as measured by the fact that Gilligan's Island has given rise to three TV movies, two animated series, and is the most rerun program in the entire history of television.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The complete Gilligan's Island story
- De Steven Gerweck en 03-24-24
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Tragic Hollywood, Beautiful, Glamorous And Dead
- De: Jackie Ganiy
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
Have you always been fascinated by the morbid side of Hollywood? Did you cut your teeth on books like Hollywood Babylon, and shows like Mysteries And Scandals? This book promises to deliver all the salacious details about the stars you remember, not for their films, but for their tragic short lives. What really happened to Natalie Wood aboard The Splendor that cold November night? Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated? Just how decadent were the days of the silent movies? Maybe you think you've heard it all? Trust me, you haven't! Chock full of new details, shocking photos and even a ...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Stories were interesting
- De Karmen King en 03-28-25
De: Jackie Ganiy
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Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard
- Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream
- De: Sam Staggs
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 63
Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It’s also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great - and who were, in turn, destroyed by it. One of the most critically admired films of the 20th century, Sunset Boulevard is also famous as silent-star Gloria Swanson’s comeback picture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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ABRIDGED VERSION BADLY NEEDED!
- De The Louligan en 01-18-22
De: Sam Staggs
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With Love, Mommie Dearest
- The Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic
- De: A. Ashley Hoff, Bruce Vilanch - foreword
- Narrado por: Kim Niemi
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Christina Crawford's book was an immediate bestseller, addressing the infrequently discussed topic of child abuse. When Paramount Pictures released the film, starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford, it was critically panned, and remains one of the most legendary critical bombs in film history. The lavish, big-screen adaptation drew unexpected laughter in the scenes depicting life in the Crawford household. Rarely have such good intentions been met with such ridicule.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING narrator for a wonderful book!
- De A. Diozzi en 06-16-24
De: A. Ashley Hoff, y otros
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Confidential Confidential
- The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
- De: Samantha Barbas
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities' carefully constructed images and built a media empire. Confidential became the best-selling magazine on American newsstands in the 1950s, surpassing Time, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. Confidential's spectacular rise was followed by an equally spectacular fall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating! Painstaking Research & Documentation
- De A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. en 05-22-19
De: Samantha Barbas
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The Fixers
- The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President
- De: Joe Palazzolo, Michael Rothfeld
- Narrado por: Jim Frangione
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
With his blunt-force fame and the myths he’s propagated about himself, Donald Trump has always moved in a world of gossip barons, crooked lawyers, and porn stars. But when he became the Republican nominee for the presidency in 2016, all of these characters crawled out from the underbelly of Trump’s stardom and stumbled onto the global stage with him. In The Fixers, Joe Palazzolo and Michael Rothfeld have produced a deeply reported and exquisitely drawn portrait of that world, full of secret phone calls, hidden texts, and desperate deals,.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disturbing
- De Adam X en 01-16-20
De: Joe Palazzolo, y otros
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
- The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television
- De: Foster Hirsch
- Narrado por: Foster Hirsch
- Duración: 36 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, Cinemascope and Vistavision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios, the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating from start to finish
- De Steve C. en 02-01-25
De: Foster Hirsch
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The Hollywood Studios
- House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies
- De: Ethan Mordden
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
Hollywood in the years between 1929 and 1948 was a town of moviemaking empires. The great studios were estates of talent: sprawling, dense, diverse. It was the Golden Age of the Movies, and each studio made its distinctive contribution. But how did the studios, "growing up" in the same time and place, develop so differently? What combinations of talents and temperaments gave them their signature styles?
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3 out of 5 stars
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The reader falls quite short of the book
- De Eleanor en 07-20-09
De: Ethan Mordden
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The Genius of the System
- Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
- De: Thomas Schatz, Steven Bach - preface
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 24 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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At a time when the studio is making a stunning comeback, film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's traditional blend of business and art. Working from industry documents, Schatz traces the development of house styles, the rise and fall of careers, and the making - and unmaking - of movies, from Frankenstein to Spellbound to Grand Hotel. The Genius of the System gives the definitive view of the workings of the Old Hollywood and the foundations of the New.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Textbook on Old Hollywood
- De Charlie Morton en 05-26-23
De: Thomas Schatz, y otros
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A Murder in Hollywood
- The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime
- De: Casey Sherman
- Narrado por: Casey Sherman
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all—a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato, thug for the infamous west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen, her personal life became violent and unpredictable. Lana's teenage daughter, Cheryl, watched her beloved mother's life deteriorate as Stompanato's intense jealousy took over.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what you think…
- De christopher j rago en 02-26-24
De: Casey Sherman
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Longstreet at Gettysburg
- A Critical Reassessment
- De: Cory M. Pfarr
- Narrado por: Mike Hennessy
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
This is the first book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that Longstreet's record has been discredited unfairly, beginning with character assassination by his contemporaries after the war and, persistently, by historians in the decades since. By closely studying the three-day battle, and conducting an incisive historiographical inquiry into Longstreet's treatment by scholars, this book presents an alternative view of Longstreet as an effective military leader.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Longstreet Vindicated
- De Mr. Noodle en 10-24-23
De: Cory M. Pfarr
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Tinseltown
- Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
- De: William J. Mann
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,905
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,913
By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence; yet Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies - including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everybody's a dreamer...
- De Steven en 01-08-15
De: William J. Mann
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Beverly Hills Confidential
- A Century of Stars, Scandals and Murders
- De: Barbara Schroeder, Clark Fogg
- Narrado por: Rich Miller
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
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Acid-throwing brides, axe-murdering maids, mysterious deaths at Greystone mansion, and the real story of what happened the night a superstar publicist was gunned down on Sunset Boulevard; just a few of the many stories in this "Rip-roaring" story featuring the first 100 years of grand times and grand crimes in the world's glamour capital of Beverly Hills.
De: Barbara Schroeder, y otros
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The Big Goodbye
- Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
- De: Sam Wasson
- Narrado por: Sam Wasson
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 509
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 419
Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This book is cursed
- De Dobbs en 04-13-20
De: Sam Wasson
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Scandals of Classic Hollywood
- Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
- De: Anne Helen Peterson
- Narrado por: Romy Nordlinger
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 158
Believe it or not, America's fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Perez Hilton, Charlie Sheen's breakdown, and allegations against Woody Allen. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren't always the saints that we make them out to be. Part biography, part cultural history, the stories contained in this book cover the stuff that films are made of: love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and botched cover-ups.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting journey
- De Jennifer en 10-07-14
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Ferocious Ambition
- Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom
- De: Robert Dance
- Narrado por: Greg D. Barnett
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Joan Crawford's remarkable forty-five-year motion picture career is one of the industry's longest. Signing her first contract in 1925, she was crowned an MGM star four years later and by the mid-1930s was the most popular actress in America. In the early 1940s, Crawford's risky decision to move to Warner Bros. was rewarded with an Oscar for Mildred Pierce. This triumph launched a series of film noir classics. She teamed with rival Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, proving that Crawford, whose career had begun by defining big-screen glamor, had matured into a dramatic actress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Most Excellent Film Biography
- De Patrick A. Oconnor en 05-02-24
De: Robert Dance
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Great book, very helpful in business and economic. It is definitely very interesting and easy to understand and follow. Overall great interesting book to listen to.
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