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Title: The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Others by Jane Ellen Wayne ISBN: 0-7867-1117-5 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 22 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: I enjoyed Golden Girls of MGM very, very much. I consider it a Hollywood reference book. Although Jane Ellen Wayne has a humorous writing style at times, she gets her facts straight and documents the iives of Hollywood legends accurately. So much has been written about Lana Turner, Greta Garbo. Liz Taylor, etc., but Wayne comes up with facts that weren't previously known. For those who are not acquainted with the Golden Era, this book is an excellent chance to read about it. There's much to learn about MGM and the great LOuis B. Mayer and the star system. It's a very good read. I recommend it highly.
Rating: 1
Summary: Biased and uninteresting
Comment: I bought this book at a local bookstore and I'm grateful because it'll be much easier to return there than on Amazon. Some reviews said that this author didn't say much about anyone but I disagree. I found her bias towards and against some actresses obvious. This leads me to believe that we are only getting half of the story. I mean calling Joan Crawford a "victim" is laughable to me. If you know anything about Joan, you know that she was no one's victim.
Also, many of the conversations that Wayne quotes have no source. How do we know that they were real or just garbage that she made up? Either she stole some of these quotes from other books or they existed in her head. We don't know because she rarely explains where she got her information.
This is like a one-sided Cliff's notes version of the lives of these fabulous women. And if anyone would like to use this as source material, may I suggest using it to solve the mystery of how so many beautiful, fascinating, sexy women fell for Mickey Rooney? I would really like an explaination on that!!
Rating: 1
Summary: How did this author ever get published?
Comment: Ms. Wayne is one of the worst writers I have ever read. Not only is her writing amateurish and ungrammatical, it is downright annoying. Your average seventh grader is probably a better writer.
I could put up with her writing if the book did not have numerous other faults.
One example of this book's many faults is that in the chapter on Hepburn, the decade between 1928 and 1938 -- when Hepburn started in the movies and achieved stardom -- is not even mentioned. I don't know if this is Wayne's fault or simply an editing glitch.
I bought this book because I am a fan of several of these actresses, but I was disappointed that most of the information on them appeared to have been stolen from other sources. Including conversations at which the author could not possibly have been present is the height of bad journalism and a hallmark of sleazy biographical writing. In addition, I didn't learn anything new about any of the actresses whom I had already read a lot about, and I tired of the sensationalistic recounting of their affairs, abortions, tantrums, divorces, drunkenness, and so forth. How about mentioning something positive about them? Surely there was something. But wait. I guess that doesn't sell books.
If you want to learn about these stars, there are bound to be well-researched, balanced, in-depth books about each one, particularly Crawford and Hepburn. So don't waste your money on this crapfest.
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Title: Hollywood Divas : The Good, The Bad, and The Fabulous by James Robert Parish ISBN: 0071408193 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, With Filmographies for Each by Daniel Bubbeo ISBN: 0786411376 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Ava Gardner: Beautiful, Wild, Innocent by Gilles Dagneau, Sandra Eiko Tokunaga ISBN: 8873014968 Publisher: Gremese Editore Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier by J. Randy Taraborrelli ISBN: 0446531642 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg ISBN: 0399151648 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 11 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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