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Book Beyond Tallulah

Download or read book Beyond Tallulah written by Sam Wyly and published by Melcher Media Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Sam Wyly became America's boldest big-time entrepreneur.

Book Tallulah

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tallulah Bankhead
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2023-11-15
  • ISBN : 149685375X
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Tallulah written by Tallulah Bankhead and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her father and her uncle were U.S. congressmen. Her grandfather was a U.S. senator. Although born to privilege in Alabama and groomed in a convent school, Tallulah Bankhead resolved not to be just another southern belle. Quickly she rose to the top and became an acclaimed actress of London's West End and on the Broadway stage. Her performances in many plays of the 1920s brought her to the notice of Hollywood. She starred in such Paramount films as My Sin, Faithless, The Devil and the Deep, and Thunder Below. Even though she won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), she never achieved the prominence in movies that she enjoyed in the theater and on radio. On the New York stage she originated the starring roles of Regina Giddens in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and of Sabina in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Tallulah, like Eudora, Flannery, and Coretta, was a southern woman identifiable by her first name. Her flamboyant public personality may be the most fully realized and memorable character Bankhead ever played. She became famous for her snappy repartee, candid quotes, and scandalous lifestyle. She was disposed to remove her clothes and chat in the nude. Overfond of Kentucky bourbon and wild parties, she was a lady baritone who called everybody “Dahling.” In Tallulah, first published in 1952 and a New York Times bestseller for twenty-six weeks, Bankhead's literary voice is as lively and forthright as her public persona. She details her childhood and adolescence, discusses her dedication to the theater, and presents amusing anecdotes about her life in Hollywood, New York, and London. Along with a searing defense of her lifestyle and rambunctious habits, she provides a fiercely opinionated, wildly funny account of American stage at a time when the movies were beginning to cast theater into eclipse. This is not only a memoir of an independent woman but also an inside look at American entertainment during a golden age.

Book Tallulah Falls

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christine Fletcher
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2007-05-29
  • ISBN : 1599900955
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Tallulah Falls written by Christine Fletcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having left her Orgeon home to meet a troubled friend in Florida, high-school student Tallulah finds herself stranded in Tennessee and taken in by the employees of a veterinary clinic.

Book Tallulah s Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Mackrell
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 2013-07-04
  • ISBN : 1447254023
  • Pages : 87 pages

Download or read book Tallulah s Story written by Judith Mackrell and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamorized, mythologized and demonized – the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signalled another cataclysmic world change. Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston, wore fashionable clothes and partied with the rest of their peers, they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world. Tallulah’s Story is extracted from Judith Mackrell’s acclaimed biography, Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation.

Book Losing the Field

Download or read book Losing the Field written by Abbi Glines and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Field Party series—a southern soap opera with football, cute boys, and pick-up trucks—from USA TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines. Tallulah Liddell had been defined by her appearance for as long as she could remember. Overweight and insecure, she preferred to fly under the radar, draw as little attention to herself so no one can hurt her. The only boy who did seem to ever notice her was her longtime crush, Nash Lee. But when he laughs at a joke aimed at Tallulah the summer before their senior year, Tallulah’s love dissipates, and she becomes determined to lose weight, to no longer be an object of her classmates’—and especially Nash’s—ridicule. Nash Lee has it all—he’s the star running back of Lawton’s football team, being scouted by division one colleges, and on track to have a carefree senior year. But when an accident leaves him with a permanent limp, all of Nash’s present and future plans are destroyed, leaving him bitter, angry, and unrecognizable from the person he used to be. Facing a new school year with her new body, Tallulah is out to seek revenge on Nash’s cruelty. All does not go according to plan, though, and Tallulah and Nash unexpectedly find themselves falling for each other. But with all the pain resting in each of their hearts, can their love survive?

Book One from the Hart

Download or read book One from the Hart written by Stefanie Powers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her career, Stefanie Powers has notched up so many stage, screen and TV credits that her name alone recalls memories as varied as her roles. 'One From the Hart' is the story of a resourceful, empowered woman and her atypical celebrity life.

Book Beyond the Crossroads

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Gussow
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2017-09-05
  • ISBN : 1469633671
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Crossroads written by Adam Gussow and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.

Book Beyond the Mafia

Download or read book Beyond the Mafia written by Sue Mahan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-06-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comparative perspective of 'non traditional' organized crime in the United States and Latin America - beyond the Mafia.

Book The Current

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1886
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book The Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tallulah  Darling of the Gods

Download or read book Tallulah Darling of the Gods written by Kieran Tunney and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1973 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Night She Disappeared

Download or read book The Night She Disappeared written by Lisa Jewell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, 'DIG HERE.' Could this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple? And what exactly is buried in this haunted ground?"--

Book The Hacker s Handbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danny Wilson
  • Publisher : BookRix
  • Release : 2018-09-06
  • ISBN : 3743879948
  • Pages : 54 pages

Download or read book The Hacker s Handbook written by Danny Wilson and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomorrow is another day....Just believe!! Reality comes and goes but faith is eternal. The down-trodden,homeless,and misunderstood matter.

Book Poems of Places  America

Download or read book Poems of Places America written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making IT Work

Download or read book Making IT Work written by Jeffrey R. Yost and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies. The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions of workers, but is often overshadowed by the hardware and software products industries. In this book, Jeffrey Yost shows how computer services, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, have played a crucial role in shaping information technology—in making IT work. Tracing the evolution of the computer services industry from the 1950s to the present, Yost provides case studies of important companies (including IBM, Hewlett Packard, Andersen/Accenture, EDS, Infosys, and others) and profiles of such influential leaders as John Diebold, Ross Perot, and Virginia Rometty. He offers a fundamental reinterpretation of IBM as a supplier of computer services rather than just a producer of hardware, exploring how IBM bundled services with hardware for many years before becoming service-centered in the 1990s. Yost describes the emergence of companies that offered consulting services, data processing, programming, and systems integration. He examines the development of industry-defining trade associations; facilities management and the firm that invented it, Ross Perot's EDS; time sharing, a precursor of the cloud; IBM's early computer services; and independent contractor brokerages. Finally, he explores developments since the 1980s: the transformations of IBM and Hewlett Packard; the offshoring of enterprises and labor; major Indian IT service providers and the changing geographical deployment of U.S.-based companies; and the paradigm-changing phenomenon of cloud service.

Book Songs of the South

Download or read book Songs of the South written by Jennie Thornley Clarke and published by Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company. This book was released on 1896 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond DiMaggio

Download or read book Beyond DiMaggio written by Lawrence Baldassaro and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Italian-Americans in baseball.