Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait
10 best books like Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait (Diana Maychick): Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words, Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years, Audrey Hepburn: A Biography, Audrey: A Life in Pictures, True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess, Cary Grant: A Class Apart, The Audrey Hepburn Treasures, Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures
Author | George Barris |
ISBN | 0806524537 |
No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, she was no ordinary screen goddess. Few really knew her. What others wrote, she called "Lies! Lies! Lies!"
Here, at last, is Marilyn Monroe's account, in her own singular voice....
Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years
Author | Tony Nourmand |
ISBN | 0811858022 |
Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, Paris When It Sizzles, Breakfast at Tiffany'sthese early films established Audrey Hepburn as the epitome of stylish grace and playful elegance. This collection of legendary and never-before-seen Paramount poster art, lobby cards, magazine covers, costume...
Audrey Hepburn: A Biography
Author | Warren G. Harris |
ISBN | 1568951566 |
This novel also has one true fault, and the fault is that underneath all of the well-researched facts and trivia and all the information and precision found in this biography, the biographer is simply not a very good writer. Biographies are generally written in a semi-formal tone, and certainly not...
Audrey: A Life in Pictures
Author | Carol Krenz |
ISBN | 1567995314 |
From winning over audiences in "Roman Holiday" to becoming an international spokesperson for Unicef, Audrey Hepburn was one of the 20th century's most beloved celebrities. She captivated audiences with her poise, classic beauty and class. Audrey Hepburn's pictures, such as "Breakfast at Tiffany's"...
True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess
Author | Wendy Leigh |
ISBN | 0312342365 |
This is the worst biography I have ever read and the most disappointing book I've read in a long time. Leigh seems obsessed with Grace's romantic life and spends more time trying to root out scandal than conveying meaningful information about Grace Kelly's personality and character. The writing was...
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Author | Graham McCann |
ISBN | 0231108850 |
Born in Bristol to a working class family as Archie Leach, Cary Grant rose to become an icon of cinema's Golden Age. He embodied the stylish, sophisticated gentleman, but set himself apart from others of that ilk by retaining a gentle sense of self-mocking humour, and his humble roots meant he never allowed...
The Audrey Hepburn Treasures
Author | Ellen Erwin |
ISBN | 0743289862 |
With nearly thirty movies, countless awards, and an unwavering commitment to UNICEF, Audrey Hepburn's life served as an example of both style and purpose. From her early dance performances for the Dutch resistance during World War II to her London cabaret days and her breakthrough roles in "Gigi"...
Author | Barry Paris |
ISBN | 0425182126 |
The most ambitious and personal account ever written about Hollywood's most gracious star-Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris is a "moving portrayal" (The New York Times Book Review) that truly captures the woman who captured our hearts...
With the insights of family and friends who never before...
Her beauty has proved timeless—should we be surprised? Equally graceful whether moving or standing still, blessed with a balletic poise, luminous dark eyes, and an exquisite profile a queen might envy, Audrey Hepburn would no doubt have become famous in her youth even if the movies hadn’t...
Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures
Author | Pierre-Henri Verlhac |
ISBN | 1862057753 |
From her captivating debut in Roman Holiday in 1953, Audrey Hepburn redefined notions of Hollywood elegance and sophistication. This gorgeously illustrated book celebrates her popularity as an enduring icon, providing a unique insight into her career, personality, and trademark style that still...
Author | Alexander Walker |
ISBN | 0312180462 |
Innocent, elegant, ethereal in her beauty, Audrey Hepburn stood alone among the actresses of her time. From her first moment of fame in Roman Holiday, through the triumphs of Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady, her screen presence was unique. Gregory Peck called her "a magical combination of high...
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
Author | Donald Spoto |
ISBN | 0307237583 |
Her name is synonymous with elegance, style and grace. Over the course of her extraordinary life and career, Audrey Hepburn captured hearts around the world and created a public image that stands as one of the most recognizable and beloved in recent memory. But despite her international fame and her...
Jimmy Stewart: A Biography
Author | Marc Eliot |
ISBN | 1400052211 |
Jimmy Stewart’s all-American good looks, boyish charm, and deceptively easygoing style of acting made him one of Hollywood’s greatest and most enduring stars. Despite the indelible image he projected of innocence and quiet self-assurance, Stewart’s life was more complex and sophisticated...
Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit
Author | Sean Hepburn Ferrer |
ISBN | 0671024795 |
Now in paperback, an intimate look at the woman the world adored, by the son who adored her with unique photos, drawings, and other rare Audrey memorabilia.
She dazzled millions as Gigi. Eliza Doolittle. Holly Golightly. But to her most adoring fan, Audrey Hepburn was best known for her role...
Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball
Author | Kathleen Brady |
ISBN | 1504018923 |
Everyone loved Lucy, the scheming, madcap redhead who ruled television for more than twenty years. In life, however, Lucille Ball presented a far more complex and contradictory personality than was ever embodied by the television Lucy. In Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball Kathleen Brady presents...
How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life
Author | Melissa Hellstern |
ISBN | 0525948236 |
A rare glimpse into the woman behind the mystique and the definitive guide to living genuinely with glamour and grace.
"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book and remembering--because you...
Ingrid: A Personal Biography of Ingrid Bergman
Author | Charlotte Chandler |
ISBN | 0743294211 |
Ingrid Bergman was one of the biggest and most glamorous stars in Hollywood -- until she became one of the most controversial, when an international scandal threatened to end her career. She had starred in several now-classic films: "Casablanca, Spellbound, Notorious, Gaslight, " and her co-stars...
James Dean: The Mutant King: A Biography
This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock ’n’ roll’s politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully...
Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
Author | Stephen O'Connor |
ISBN | 0226616673 |
In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the Children's...
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood
Author | Suzanne Finstad |
ISBN | 0609809571 |
Natalie Wood was always a star; her mother made sure this was true. A superstitious Russian immigrant who claimed to be royalty, Maria had been told by a gypsy, long before little Natasha Zakharenko's birth, that her second child would be famous throughout the world. When the beautiful child with the...
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe
Author | Donald H. Wolfe |
ISBN | 0688162886 |
“Donald Wolfe has written one of the most absorbing accounts of Marilyn’s life to date.”
—Fred Lawrence Guiles, author of Norma Jean
“Admirable!...Wolfe takes us very close indeed to the dark truth about Monroe, the Kennedys, and that lonely death in the California night.”
—Anthony...
Author | Pamela Clarke Keogh |
ISBN | 0060193298 |
Everyone, it seems, is a fan of Audrey's. She was Gigi, a princess, Holly Golightly, a nun, Maid Marian, even an angel. And we believed her in every role. But Audrey Hepburn was also one of the most admired and emulated women of the twentieth century, who encouraged women to discover and highlight their...