'I used to be Snow White, but I drifted...' Drawing on unpublished material from Mae West's personal papers, acclaimed biographer Simon Louvish offers us the first comprehensive book on West's legendarily sassy life and work. He examines her early vaudeville career, her transgressive and controversial Broadway plays (such as Sex), and her film career. The book also tracks Mae's later career from the 1940s through the 1970s, with new material on her larger-than-life Las Vegas and nightclub acts, and fascinating insight into her life with her companion-till-death, Paul Novak. Louvish, having inspected reams of West's private writings, also provides a completely new perspective on her as an original writer and creator, and traces the origin and development of the famous 'Mae West quips'. This is certainly the first book to tell West's tale with verifiable accuracy, as one of the great showbiz sagas of the twentieth century. It is both a distinctively American and rambunctiously universal tale.
Simon Louvish Bücher
Simon Louvish ist ein israelischer Autor und Filmemacher, dessen Werke sich oft mit dem Leben fiktiver Charaktere beschäftigen, die zwischen Kriege, Spionage und gesellschaftliche Umwälzungen geraten. Seine Erzählungen erforschen die Komplexität der menschlichen Existenz in turbulenten Zeiten. Neben Romanen verfasst er auch Biografien und literaturwissenschaftliche Studien, in denen er faszinierende Lebenswege und künstlerische Beiträge bedeutender Persönlichkeiten aufdeckt. Louvishs Stil zeichnet sich durch Tiefe und die fesselnde Wirkung der von ihm geschaffenen Welten aus.
Chaplin : the Tramp's odyssey
- 432 Seiten
- 16 Lesestunden
A study of one of the cinema's most famous artists, Charlie Chaplin, whose Tramp persona is famous the world over, even to those who have never seen his films.
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Keystone, the life and clowns of Mack Sennett
- 352 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Presents a portrait of the father of American slapstick--the iron worker-turned-actor who pioneered a dizzying vocabulary of on-camera gags, gaffes, and gyrations.
Coffee with Groucho
- 144 Seiten
- 6 Lesestunden
With a foreword by the actor, director, and playwright described as “the greatest living exponent of Groucho Marx’s material” by The New York Times, and text by the author of Monkey Business, a biography of the Marx Brothers, this bio brings the wisecracking, cigar-chomping, eyebrow-raising comedian to life on the page. Groucho discusses such issues as the film Duck Soup, the rules of comedy, the directors he worked with, and his talented brothers Harpo and Chico (“You know, of course, those two aren’t really acting when they play those scenes. They’re just being themselves.”).