4 STARS"hirty-six years after Marilyn Monroe's death (at the age of 36), Leaming, prolific celebrity biographer, picks through the bones and neuroses of the ultimate Hollywood icon. More than 200 books have been written on the subject; only a few biographies (namely, Donald Spoto's revisionist Ma...
Barbara Leaming certainly scoured the primary sources for her information on screen legend Bette Davis. She went through Davis' personal scrapbooks, letters, diaries and business documents for a fuller picture of the life of one of the premiere actresses of cinema's golden age. The biography is v...
Too much had happened in the violent and bloody month since he and Kick had said good-bye. The 5th Coldstream Battalion had arrived in Normandy three days before General Sir Bernard Montgomery, the commander of Allied ground forces in Normandy, opened a major offensive, Operation Epsom, with the ...
Now suddenly, on April 8—the very day that Bette had informed him she will be opening in the play—from his office in Boston, Harlow writes a letter whose barely suppressed frenzy about whether or not she has been cast as Hedvig suggests that in the interim he has read and been profoundly disturbe...
Given the guest list, however, which included prominent figures from the worlds of politics, media, and the arts, the national press was soon trumpeting an occasion described by turns as “the event of the summer on Cape Cod” and as Jackie’s “farewell to sadness and … emergence definitely into a n...