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10 best books like Grace: Secret Lives of a Princess (James Spada): Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming, Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit, Behind the Secret Window, Timebends: A Life, Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait, Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot, Natalie Wood, Citizen Hearst

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
AuthorStephanie Hemphill
On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own, Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems.

With photos and an extensive list of facts...
Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming
AuthorMyrna Loy
The actress Myrna Loy looks back on her career as a Hollywood star who appeared in over 125 movies, including The Best Years of Our Lives and The Thin Man She begins her story in Montana and tells how she came to Hollywood where her talent for dancing and her personal charm soon made her very popular; Jimmy...
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis
AuthorEd Sikov
ISBN0805075488
The legendary Hollywood star blazes a fiery trail in this enthralling portrait of a brilliant actress and the movies her talent elevated to greatness She was magnificent and exasperating in equal measure. Jack Warner called her "an explosive little broad with a sharp left." Humphrey Bogart...
Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit
AuthorBrigid O'Donoghue
ISBN1560778520
This book has been lying around my house for what seemed like ages and it was only today that I actually read it.

Honestly I was hesitant to read it mostly because it seemed like the annoying self-help book that seem to be dominating the lives of North American society. It was a self-help book and...
Behind the Secret Window
AuthorNelly S. Toll
ISBN0803713622
For thirteen months during World War II, Nelly Toll and her mother were hidden from the Nazis in the small bedroom of a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland. Just eight years old when she went into hiding in 1943, Nelly began keeping the diary that would inspire this powerful and moving memoir of her childhood....
Timebends: A Life
AuthorArthur Miller
ISBN0140249176
The trouble with autobiographies is that only part of most people's lives is interesting. So it is here. I wanted to read about Marilyn Monroe but we get only small parts out of two chapters. Miller glosses over the breakup of his first marriage and the formation of his relationship with the most famous...
Audrey Hepburn: An Intimate Portrait
AuthorDiana Maychick
ISBN0806580003
When she began writing her biography of Audrey Hepburn, author Diana Maychick never dreamed she would have such unprecedented access to the reclusive and legendary star. Audrey Hepburn insisted that a proper biography could never be completed unless she was willing to share some intensely personal...
Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
AuthorStarr Smith
ISBN0760328242
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II--and they were legion--Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform: as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air...
Natalie Wood
AuthorGavin Lambert
ISBN0375410740
She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in "Miracle on 34th Street. "Her adolescence in "Rebel Without a Cause. "Her coming of age? Still playing in "Splendor in the Grass "and "West Side Story" and countless other hit movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her debut in 1946,...
Citizen Hearst
AuthorW.A. Swanberg
ISBN0883659700
William Randolph Hearst: just a name today, but once the mightiest force in American journalism. His income was $15 million a year (when it meant something)--yet he teetered constantly on the brink of financial disaster. He was a paradox: conservative on some issues, a radical reformer on others (he...
Katharine Hepburn: A Remarkable Woman
AuthorAnne Edwards
ISBN0312206569
Katharine Hepburn: grande dame of American actresses, fierce individualist, and living legend. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards and winner of four, Hepburn achieved stardom against formidable odds. The woman behind the legend emerges in this sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of her exceptional...
Grace
AuthorRobert Lacey
ISBN0399138722
The three stars are for the information provided about Grace Kelly, which is the only reason, in my opinion, to read this one. I find this book lacking both in heart and emotional insight. Minus this, the reader feels an emotional distance from Grace, making some of her dalliances seem tawdry rather than...
Gable & Lombard
AuthorWarren G. Harris
ISBN0671217445
When I'm reading a biography/history, there are a few rules that, if they are broken, immediately make it fail the "smell test" for me.

1. No conversations that couldn't possibly have been heard. In Gable & Lombard, Warren Harris somehow is able to tell us what Carole Lombard said as her...
Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
AuthorC. David Heymann
Based on more than a thousand interviews with stars, directors, producers, designers, friends, family, business associates, employees, and others and on extensive research among previously undisclosed court, business, medical, and studio documents, Liz portrays Taylor's entire life and career...
Bette Davis: A Biography
AuthorBarbara Leaming
Drawn largely from conversations with her friends, lovers, fellow actors, and family members, here is the full story of cinematic legend Bette Davis (1908-1989). Leaming chronicles the Academy Award-winner's work in such memorable films as Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, Dark Victory, All About Eve,...
Judy
AuthorGerold Frank
ISBN0306808943
Based on over 200 interviews and full access to her personal papers, letters, contracts, and photos, as well as the complete cooperation of her children, husbands, relatives, doctors, fellow actors, and directors, this biography explores with candor and empathy the tempestuous, theatrical life...
Times to Remember
AuthorRose Fitzgerald Kennedy
ISBN0385476574
"Fusty" barely begins to cover it, although some of that is understandable. She was essentially a Victorian/Edwardian who lived well into the late 20th century, and she managed to control an exceptional series of tragedies with steel in her spine and a rosary in her hands. The real problem with this...
My Story
AuthorSarah Ferguson
ISBN0671004395
This book should be retitled "1001 Excuses for my Bad Behaviour" (see what I did there?)
Unlike the late Princess Diana, Sarah Ferguson was more than old enough and experienced enough to know what she was getting herself in to when she married Prince Andrew. She continuously blames the Royal monarchy...
It's Only a Movie: A Personal Biography of Alfred Hitchcock
AuthorCharlotte Chandler
ISBN1557836922
Applause Books" It's Only a Movie is the best book ever written about my father. It really is amazing." Patricia Hitchcock North by Northwest. Psycho. Rear Window. The Birds. Vertigo. When it comes to murder and mayhem, shock and suspense, the films of Alfred Hitchcock can not be surpassed. For this...
Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn
AuthorKen Cuthbertson
ISBN0571199658
Known as "Mickey" to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 1920s; ran away to the Belgian Congo as a Red Cross worker during the Great Depression; was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s; had an illegitimate child with the head of the British Secret...
The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life
AuthorCharles Higham
ISBN0471485233
Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VIII, and cost him his throne. Until Charles Higham's 1.3 million-copy bestseller, much of her life was a glamorous mystery. Now, fifteen years later, major new...
Victoria: An Intimate Biography
AuthorStanley Weintraub
ISBN0452269792
I didn't know a lot about Queen Victoria herself before going into this book, although I'm fairly familiar with the time during which she reigned, so this book was very informative, if nothing else. Sadly, though, at times it also felt plodding. I don't expect biographies to be action-packed or suspenseful,...
Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography
AuthorAndrew Morton
ISBN0312359861
1992: Andrew Morton showed a Princess in a light we had never seen before--Diana: Her True Story became a #1 New York Times bestseller.

1999: Andrew Morton revealed the young woman behind the blue dress--Monica’s Story was a #1 New York Times bestseller.

January 15, 2008: Andrew...
True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess
AuthorWendy Leigh
ISBN0312342365
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...
I'm Chevy Chase ... and You're Not
AuthorRena Fruchter
ISBN1852273461
Chevy Chase is a much-loved Hollywood star. His success as a writer and actor on Saturday Night Live in the 70s made him a household name.

It had been a long, hard route to the top for Chevy. Behind the fame lay a childhood riddled with abuse. But his remarkable strength and determination helped...
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