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Title: Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen (Hollywood Legends Series) by Jane Lenz Elder ISBN: 1-57806-210-1 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Only complete biography
Comment: This is the only complete biography of Alice Faye written since her death in 1998. To those who admire Alice Faye it is a very well researched and interesting book covering her entire life. But the pictures in the book do not do her full justice. The best book there is The Alice Faye movie book,
Rating: 5
Summary: An All-Round Interesting Book
Comment: Good things do happen to good people! In Ms. Elder's comprehensive biography of Alice Faye's we experience a young girl who emerges from a broken and impoverished home unscarred and loving. Her dreams of becoming a dancer place her in an atmosphere of traveling bands and their leaders, one night stands, and the New York night club scene, and in this atmosphere where so many others lost their ideals, she enjoys the friendship and respect of all her co-workers, male and female, as well as success.. She enters the Hollywood movie arena of the 40's and 50's, where Mr. Zanuck and moguls of the movie studios try to dictate movie roles to her, yet she holds fast to what she inherently knows is correct and triumphs. And when she knows the time is right for her to quit show business and begin a private life, she does so and has many happy years with her family in a good marriage.
Ms. Elder's excellent writing maintains a balance between the career of Ms. Faye and the social and business environment in which she found herself. Indeed, this book gives splendid insight into the world of show business, from the early night club scene in New York to the developing Hollywood movie business with its contract players, radio broadcasts, and the early days of television. Of particular interest is the role of the newspaper reporters and the film magazines, as well as the role of the movie studios' publicity departments.
This is an all-round interesting book, well researched and documented. I felt I really knew Alice by the end of the book, and admired her strength and values.
Rating: 5
Summary: More Than Just A Biography
Comment: Alice Faye was an ordinary woman who led an extraordinary life. In this well researched, lucidly written biography, Jane Lenz Elder explores the many contradictions of Alice Faye: her struggles with stage fright and poor self image despite her enormous stage presence and success, her commitment to marriage and family despite a busy professional life, and her courageous willingness to act in her own best interests in a day when performers were expected to conform to the rigid codes of the Hollywood contract system.
But this book is more than just another biography of a silver screen legend. Ms Elder's background as a historian is evident in the detailed background provided. The reader will learn about the difficulties of life in Hell's Kitchen in the early years of the 20th century, how Prohibition created the night club milieu in which Faye developed her skills, and how business was conducted during the heyday of the great Hollywood studio chiefs.
The result is a rich story about a simple woman during one of the most interesting times in Hollywood history.
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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: 0786711175 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 22 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Peekaboo : The Story of Veronica Lake by Jeff Lenburg ISBN: 0595192394 Publisher: Backinprint.Com Pub. Date: 08 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Virginia Mayo: The Best Years of My Life by Virginia Mayo, Lc Van Savage ISBN: 1888725532 Publisher: Beachhouse Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream by Ronald L. Davis ISBN: 0806133309 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Van Johnson: Mgm's Golden Boy by Ronald L. Davis ISBN: 1578063779 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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