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Garden of Dreams : The Life of Simone Signoret /
"The incomparable Simone Signoret, one of the grand actresses of the twentieth century and one of France's most notable stars, considered herself the "oldest discovery" in Hollywood. After years of blacklisting during the McCarthy era, she was thirty-eight years old when she ente...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Garden of Dreams : |b The Life of Simone Signoret / |c Patricia A. DeMaio. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Long Four-Year Night; Chapter 1: A Secret Desire; Chapter 2: "I Was an Only Child"; Chapter 3: "The Peace Has Been Saved, Papa"; Chapter 4: The Phony War; Chapter 5: "A Big Spot on My Life"; Chapter 6: "The Grand Doors to a Splendid Dream"; Chapter 7: "There's No Law Against Dreaming"; Chapter 8: "The End Was in the Air"; Part II: Yves Montand; Chapter 9: "This Was the End for Us"; Chapter 10: "Something Indiscrete and Irreversible"; Chapter 11: "I Do Not Like to Speak of My Personal Life"; Chapter 12: The Stockholm Appeal; Part III: The Ideal Couple. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Chapter 13: "The Finest Film I Ever Made"Chapter 14: Therese Raquin; Chapter 15: Witches and Devils; Chapter 16: Disillusioned; Chapter 17: "Sentimental People"; Part IV: Mccarthyist Purgatory; Chapter 18: Me and the Colonel; Chapter 19: Room at the Top; Chapter 20: From the Trough to the Crest of the Wave; Chapter 21: Small World; Chapter 22: "A Whacking Down to Size"; Chapter 23: "Sad, and Abysmally Stupid"; Part V: Monstrous Egocentricity; Chapter 24: The Little Foxes; Chapter 25: Zorba the Greek; Chapter 26: "Sorry, William Shakespeare"; Chapter 27: The Seagull. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Chapter 28: Army of ShadowsPart VI: Monstra Sacre; Chapter 29: A Dark Chapter; Chapter 30: Garden of Dreams; Chapter 31: Nostalgia; Chapter 32: "The Next Day, She Smiled"; Part VII: Autumn Leaves; Chapter 33: "My Guilty conscience"; Chapter 34: Adieu, Volodia; Chapter 35: "All I Ever Really Had in Mind"; Acknowledgments; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. | |
| 520 | |a "The incomparable Simone Signoret, one of the grand actresses of the twentieth century and one of France's most notable stars, considered herself the "oldest discovery" in Hollywood. After years of blacklisting during the McCarthy era, she was thirty-eight years old when she entered Hollywood through the back door in the 1959 British blockbuster Room at the Top. Her portrayal of the endearing Alice Aisgill earned her the Academy Award in 1960, the first French actor to win a coveted Oscar. Though a latecomer to Hollywood, Signoret was already an international star who had survived the Nazi occupation of Paris, emerging in 1945 as a beautiful, promising actress capable of communicating more emotion through body language than dialogue alone could achieve. She gained a reputation as the thinking man's sex symbol, and in several films she portrayed prostitutes with subtlety and depth. She was fiercely protective of her privacy. But after winning the Oscar, she was dragged through the gutter when her second husband, Yves Montand, had a widely publicized affair with Marilyn Monroe. Many attributed her rapid aging and alcoholism to this betrayal. She endured this perception in silence, all the while demonstrating a remarkable capacity to reinvent herself as a best-selling author, respected social activist, and revered actress who remained in the cinema, her "garden of dreams," for over four decades. Patricia A. DeMaio combines Signoret's courageous story with Montand's biography to reveal new information and insight into Signoret's humanitarian efforts and the vibrant film career that sustained her"-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
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