How to be a movie star : Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood / William J. Mann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.Description: 484 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780547134642
  • 0547134649
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/8092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PN2287.T18 M36 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
How to be a movie star -- When in Rome -- Educating a movie star -- The most exciting girl -- Acting out -- Over the top -- Protecting interests -- A second chance on life -- No deodorant like success -- Rewriting the rules -- How to stay a movie star.
Summary: Despite all the gossip, the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very human woman has never been captured. Biographer Mann uses untapped sources and conversations to show how she ignited the sexual revolution with her on- and off-screen passions, helped kick down the studio system by taking control of her own career, and practically invented the big business of celebrity star-making. And he tells the full truth without losing Taylor's magic, daring, or wit. But it is the private Elizabeth that will surprise--a woman of heart and loyalty, who defends underdogs, a savvy professional whose anger at the studio's treatment of her led to a lifelong battle against that very system. Here is Elizabeth Taylor as she was meant to be, leading her epic life on her own terms, playing the game of supreme stardom at which she remains, to this day, unmatched.--From publisher description.Summary: Was Elizabeth Taylor the greatest product of the Hollywood star machine or its greatest victim? Mann's smart, engaging, clear-eyed case study . . . locates the real person somewhere between her private life and her public image
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-458) and index.

Despite all the gossip, the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very human woman has never been captured. Biographer Mann uses untapped sources and conversations to show how she ignited the sexual revolution with her on- and off-screen passions, helped kick down the studio system by taking control of her own career, and practically invented the big business of celebrity star-making. And he tells the full truth without losing Taylor's magic, daring, or wit. But it is the private Elizabeth that will surprise--a woman of heart and loyalty, who defends underdogs, a savvy professional whose anger at the studio's treatment of her led to a lifelong battle against that very system. Here is Elizabeth Taylor as she was meant to be, leading her epic life on her own terms, playing the game of supreme stardom at which she remains, to this day, unmatched.--From publisher description.

Was Elizabeth Taylor the greatest product of the Hollywood star machine or its greatest victim? Mann's smart, engaging, clear-eyed case study . . . locates the real person somewhere between her private life and her public image

How to be a movie star -- When in Rome -- Educating a movie star -- The most exciting girl -- Acting out -- Over the top -- Protecting interests -- A second chance on life -- No deodorant like success -- Rewriting the rules -- How to stay a movie star.

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