Anne Edwards

La más grande de las estrellas de MGM; veintidós películas en diez años. Bodas, divorcios, intentos de suicidios, peleas dramáticas, amores licenciosos, contratos extraordinarios, descalabros financieros, alcohol, drogas, y, al final, una vida destruida en plena juventud.Estos fueron los años fulgurantes, dramaticos de una de las estrellas mas completas del universo de Hollywood. Y esta es su historia relatada por una persona que convivio con ella. Una biografia desgarrada, cruel, pero verdadera en la que nos aparece la autentica actriz.

La fama le llegó muy pronto. Mantuvo relaciones con algunos de los hombres más importantes de Hollywood, entre ellos el director John Ford y el joven y gallardo millonario Howard Hughes. su famosa relacion con spencer tracy catolico, casado y alcoholico nos revelo los aspectos mas notables y energicos de la actriz. Fue una de las mas grandes y perdurables estrellas y Anne Edwards vuelve a los escenarios de sus obras de mayor exito de Broadway y Hollywood. Esta biografia es una obra repleta de informacion sobre el mundo del espectaculo visto desde dentro y de anecdotas fidedignas. es ademas un retrato fascinante no solo de la invencible Hepburn, sino de todo un periodo, la epoca dorada de Hollywood.

" Callas, ses défauts, ses colères, ses amours... Sa vie de gloire et de tragédies est restituée ici de façon saisissante. " The Tampa TribuneEnfant prodige, malmenée entre une mère autoritaire et un

Without doubt the twentieth century''s most celebrated operatic diva, Maria Callas blazed new paths, set new standards and changed the face of opera for ever. With her incandescent fame,extraordinary voice and dramatic talent, she should have led a sublimely happy life, yet betrayal and tragedy were her constant companions. Callas is both icon and myth, her private life indelibly coloured by passion, vulnerability, rejection, the madness of a voracious press and personal tragedy. The mystery of Callas''s last days, the charlatan who preyed upon her, her private angst over Onassis, her thwarted affair with the homosexual Italian director Visconti and her traumatic New York childhood and youthful struggle to survive in war-torn Greece are told in this vivid account. Anne Edwards shows us the real Maria Callas, whose craving for affection and complex neurosis affected not only her life but her music.

María Callas nos sigue deslumbrando, a veinte años de su muerte, porque fue la indiscutida diva de la ópera del siglo XX y también porque su vida y su muerte quedaron signadas por una maquiavélica telaraña de escándalo, misterio y engaño. Anne Edwards, la reconocida biógrafa de los famosos, cuenta su verdadera historia. Desde su infancia como niña prodigio, María se enfrentó a una madre cruel y ambiciosa que la separó de su padre y de la Nueva York natal para llevarla a Grecia, ignorante de la guerra inminente que se cernía sobre Europa. Allí inició una brillante carrera como cantante lírica llegaría a cambiar la ópera definitivamente-, y una vida personal llena de sufrimiento y de frustraciones. Fueron varios los hombres que marcaron a María Callas para siempre: Luchino Visconti, el magistral director de cine, de quien se enamoró a pesar de saber que era homosexual; Battista Meneghini, su marido treinta años mayor, que la usó para su propio beneficio; y Aristóteles Onassis, dueño de un imperio marítimo, con quien mantuvo una apasionada relación en la cumbre del poder, el lujo y el dinero, y que la dejó para casarse con Jacqueline Kennedy porque creía que este matrimonio le facilitaría sus negocios en los Estados Unidos. Anne Edwards refuta la historia que sostiene que Callas tuvo un hijo misterioso con Onassis y cuenta la traición y estafa de su íntima amiga, descubriendo el velo sobre sus últimos años. Una gran obra para conocer a fondo el carácter único de la diva, su consagración como máxima estrella, la pasión y la intriga de una vida signada por la tragedia.

Edwardss biography presents a complete picture of the late actressand not just the boozing, drug-addicted caricature of a woman central to lesser biographies. We learn, for example, that Garland saw it as her duty to provide for her family financially, a generosity that her mother Ethel exploited with disastrous results. Above all, Judy Garland sought to please, whether it was an audience or a studio head, and therein lies her powerful and heartbreaking story.

The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the worlds oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Prince Albert II, the Grimaldisan ambitious, hot-blooded, unscrupulous race, swift to revenge and furious in battlehave ruled Monaco. Against all odds, they have proved themselves masterful survivors, still in possession of their lands and titles despite the upheavals of the French Revolution and the First and Second World Wars, when royal heads rolled and most small countries met their demise.With insufficient weaponry and military forces far too small to go into combat against their more powerful neighbors, France and Italy, the Grimaldis endured by their cunning and their shrewd choice of bridesrich women and high connections in the most influential courts of Europe, and often, strong sexual appetites. The French noblemans daughter who married Louis I later became the mistress of France Louis XIV. Her son, Antoine I was wed to an aristocratic wife who outdid her mother-in-law by having so many lovers her husband took to hanging them in effigy.The seafaring adventurer Prince Albert I was unfortunate enough to have two wives, one British, one American, who ran off with their lovers. His second wife, the American Alice Heine, a fabulously rich heiress from New Orleans and the widowed Duchesse de Richelieu, was the model for Prousts Princess of Luxembourg. Heine used her own wealth to bring grandeur, culture, and sophistication to the palatial center of Monte Carlo; and with the introduction of gambling, an internationally celebrated resort was born, initially for the privileged few and later for raffish cafe society,The last section of the book is devoted to the most recent generations of the Grimaldis. Here, a new image of Rainier III emerges as both man and monarch, beginning with his blighted childhood as the son of divorced parents and of a mother scorned as illegitimate. And preceding the drama of his marriage to Grace Kelly, there is an account of his intense love affair with a French film start and reasons behind his sisters lifelong malice and envy of him. The final note is necessarily tragic, detailing in full the deaths of both Princess Grace and Princess Carolines husband in sudden and shocking accidents

Wallis Simpson rocked the British royal familyand indeed society at largewhen the twice-divorced American socialite agreed to marry David Windsor, otherwise known as King Edward VIII, forcing his abdication of the throne. This novelization of this chapter in Walliss life starts with the couples first encounter in 1920, their romance beginning in 1934, and finally their marriage following the abdication of the King in 1937. Based entirely on research both in the United States and Britain, this is a solid factual presentation of the tumultuous events surrounding a kings abdication, brought to life with dialogue and the story arc of a fine novel.

He was an actor, newly divorced, whose controversial tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild was drawing more attention than his fading film career. She was a contract player at MGM, unmarried and rapidly growing too old to play the starlet. It was time, she decided, to settle down and become Mrs. Somebody Important. So Nancy Davis contrived an introduction to Ronald Reagan, and the Reagans march into history began. The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage is a penetrating portrayal of one of the most powerful couples of the twentieth century. Distinguished biographer Anne Edwards paints the first in-depth, intimate portrait of the man who became our fortieth president and the woman without whom he might never have reached such heights. It was a dramatic love story from the start: Nancy was always first in Reagans thoughts and he was paramount in Nancys actions. But this obsessional love had a darker side for the four Reagan children. Anne Edwards brings the Reagans dysfunctional family life into sharp focus, along with a fascinating array of supporting players such as Reagans evangelistic mother, Nelle, Frank Sinatra, and Gerald Ford. Few first ladies had as much power as Nancy Reagan, and few were so widely disliked. Anne Edwards shows a side of her never before revealed---from Nancys ardent defense of Reagans interests with both opponents and supporters, to the most difficult battle yet, the struggle to maintain her husbands dignity through his descent into Alzheimers disease.The Reagans is an original and mesmerizing look at one of Americas most important presidential marriages.

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 life and loves. Filled with accounts of her relationships with Spencer Tracy, Howard Hughes, and many others, here is the fascinating story of a determined and invincible woman. From her ferociously guarded private life to Broadways lights and Hollywoods Golden Age, A Remarkable Woman reveals a star whose courage and magnetism knew no bounds. Throughout her life Hepburn spoke her mind, mixing a native Yankee forthrightness with the social conscience she learned from her parents and her own brand of stubbornness. This book is a fascinating look not only at the invincible Katherine Hepburn but at a whole erathe golden age of Hollywood set against the struggles for womens equality and the glittering lights of Broadway.

On September 23, 1947, a number of the film industrys leading writers, producers, and directors received subpoenas that summoned them to Washington to testify before the Un-American Activities Committee of the House of Representatives. The McCarthy era had begunand with it the destruction of hundreds of careers. This bold, multidimensional novel recreates life in the inner circles of the film industry in Washington, Hollywood, and the major capitals of Europe, portraying desparate people trying to rebuild their lives in the wake of McCarthyism.

First published in 1986 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Early Reagan is still the most in-depth portrayal of the pre-government years of the late president. The book uncovers Reagans formative years: childhood poverty, film stardom, and his politicization via the Screen Actors Guild. Anne Edwards interviewed more than two hundred people important in the life of Reagan as well as those of his two wives, Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis. The book concludes with Reagans entry into politics in 1966, when he announced his candidacy for Governor of California in the living room of his hilltop San Onofre home. As the late historian Barbara Tuchman noted, For anyone who wants to know about the circumstances . . . that formed Ronald Reagan into a political figure, this is the book to read.

La más grande de las estrellas de la MGM; veintidós películas en diez años. Bodas, divorcios, intentos de suicidios, peleas dramáticas, amores licenciosos, contratos extraordinarios, descalabros financieros, alcohol, drogas, y, al final, una vida destruida en plena juventud. Estos fueron los años fulgurantes, dramaticos de una de las estrellas mas completas del universo de Hollywood. Y esta es su historia relatada por una persona que convivio con ella. Una biografia desgarrada, cruel, pero verdadera en la que se nos muestra a la autentica Judy Garland.Conocida por sus aplaudidas biografias de celebridades, Anne Edwards aborda la narrativa vital de una estrella del Hollywood de los años dorados y demuestra que la vida de Judy Garland no fue en absoluto un camino de baldosas amarillas, esa recurrente metafora visual de la felicidad en la fabula de El mago de Oz.Si soy tal leyenda, ¿por que me siento tan sola? ¿Por que me siento en casa durante horas mirando el maldito telefono? Las leyendas estan muy bien si tienes a alguien alrededor que te ama, un hombre que no teme enamorarse de Judy Garland.Judy Garland

"La aparición de estos escritos causó reacciones contradictorias.Su fuerza y validez confirman una vez más la necesidad,a pesar de todo..."