Download or read book Summary of Rob Edelman Audrey Kupferberg s Meet the Mertzes written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-06T22:59:00Z with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Bill Frawley was born in 1887 in Burlington, Iowa. He was of Irish descent and grew up in Burlington with his brother and sister. He worked for the Burlington Insurance Company and established his own insurance/real-estate agency in 1891. #2 Frawley had a thick head of golden curls as a youngster. He and his brother, Paul, sang in the choir at the local St. Paul’s Church. Between 1895 and 1900, Corbett was in the box scores of twenty-nine official bush-league contests, appearing as a gate attraction and batting. 274. #3 Bill Frawley, the actor, was born in 1939 in Des Moines County. He was headed for a career as a railroad employee, but he was also a great performer who enjoyed theatricals. His mother wanted him to study bookkeeping and shorthand, but he wanted to be an actor. #4 The circumstances surrounding Frawley’s entry into show business are unclear. Some accounts say he went to Chicago on railroad business, while others say he was relocated to Chicago. Regardless, his mother quickly stifled his artistic aspirations.
Download or read book Meet the Mertzes written by Rob Edelman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. This meticulously researched book contains interviews with Frawley's and Vance's colleagues, friends, and relatives, and explores their personal and professional lives before, during, and after I Love Lucy. With a complete filmography and videography of each, Meet the Mertzes finally sets the record straight on the lives and legacies of these compelling stars who detested one another. You'll learn about: -Vance's successful Broadway career prior to I Love Lucy -Frawley's vaudevillian roots and his passion for baseball -Vance's nervous breakdown after the collapse of her first marriage -Frawley's drinking and carousing -Lucille Ball's caustic relationship with both of her costars -Vance's hatred of being known to the world as Ethel Mertz
Download or read book Fashion Costume and Culture written by Sara Pendergast and published by U·X·L. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a history of human decoration and adornment.
Download or read book Desilu written by Coyne S. Sanders and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-05-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual biography of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball focuses on the star-crossed marriage that sired one of the most powerful production empires in television history but ended in disintegration.
Download or read book The Other Side of Ethel Mertz written by Frank Castelluccio and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only biography of Vivian Vance is now in paperback, with dozens of rare photographs and handwritten correspondence. Drawn from exclusive interviews with the actress's friends and acquaintances, as well as her own unpublished memoirs, this book tells the whole story about the former glamor girl, including her struggle with a violent depression, her failed love affairs, and her tumultuous friendship with Lucille Ball.
Download or read book The Last Yankee written by Society for American Baseball Research (Sabr) and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles, essays, statistics, and lore on the game of baseball.
Download or read book American Rebel written by Marc Eliot and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Rebel, bestselling author and acclaimed film historian Marc Eliot examines the ever-exciting, often-tumultuous arc of Clint Eastwood's life and career. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood--one of film's greatest living legends--represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema. Eliot writes with unflinching candor about Eastwood's highs and lows, his artistic successes and failures, and the fascinating, complex relationship between his life and his craft. Eliot's prodigious research reveals how a college dropout and unambitious playboy rose to fame as Hollywood's "sexy rebel," eventually and against all odds becoming a star in the Academy pantheon as a multiple Oscar winner. Spanning decades, American Rebel covers the best of Eastwood's oeuvre, films that have fast become American classics: Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, and Gran Torino. Filled with remarkable insights into Eastwood's personal life and public work, American Rebel is highly entertaining and the most complete biography of one of Hollywood's truly respected and beloved stars–-an actor who, despite being the Man with No Name, has left his indelible mark on the world of motion pictures.
Download or read book Ball of Fire written by Stefan Kanfer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, “queen of the B-pluses.” But on the small screen she was a superstar–arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy’s genius and places it in the context of her conflicted and sometimes bitter personal life. Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions. Here is the beauty who became a master of knock-down slapstick; the control freak whose comic alter ego thrived on chaos, the worshipful TV housewife whose real marriage ended in public disaster. Here, too, is an intimate view of the dawn of television and of the America that embraced it. Charming, informative, touching. and laugh-out-loud funny, this is the book Lucy’s fans have been waiting for.
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Download or read book Matthau written by Rob Edelman and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2002-09-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America's heart as one of the great comic talents of his generation. Born Walter Matuschanskayasky into Jewish tenements on New York's Lower East Side, he was a child actor in New York Yiddish theater, and later a World War II Air Force radioman-gunner. He paid dues for ten years on Broadway, in summer stock, and on television before landing his film debut The Kentuckian in 1955. By the time of his 1968 casting as cantankerous but lovable slob Oscar Madison in the film version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, Matthau had won major Hollywood stardom. Based on dozens of interviews and extensive research, this book covers the breadth of his often-complicated personal life and multi-faceted career, including his unforgettable performances in such films as The Fortune Cookie, A Guide for the Married Man, Plaza Suite, Charley Varrick, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Sunshine Boys, The Bad News Bears, California Suite, and Grumpy Old Men.
Download or read book Baseball on the Web written by Rob Edelman and published by Mis Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a listing of Web sites about baseball, covering major and minor leagues, individual teams, baseball history, and Web sites run by fans
Download or read book Intermediate Korean written by Andrew Sangpil Byon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This workbook presents twenty-four individual grammar points, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their second year of learning Korean. Grammar points are followed by examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning. Intermediate Korean is suitable for both class use as well as independent study. Key features include: clear, accessible format many useful language examples all Korean entries presented in Hangul with English translations jargon-free explanations of grammar abundant exercises with full answer key subject index. Clearly presented and user-friendly, Intermediate Korean provides readers with the essential tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations, making it an ideal grammar reference and practice resource for students with some knowledge of the language.
Download or read book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought written by Chad Alan Goldberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French tradition: 1789 and the Jews -- The German tradition: capitalism and the Jews -- The American tradition: the city and the Jews
Download or read book Going Off Script written by Giuliana Rancic and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller from the entertainment journalist, television personality, reality show star, and author, Giuliana Rancic. In her hilarious memoir Going Off Script, Giuliana Rancic gives readers an honest look at her life on and off camera. From a young age she dreamed of becoming a TV anchorwoman, but her path to her dream job was far from straight, leading her instead to Hollywood news and a bounty of LA misadventures (featuring notables such as Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Russell Crowe). In spite of her glamorous Hollywood life, however, Giuliana could not escape some rockier times, including her battles with infertility and breast cancer. Here, she reveals the whole truth behind her well-publicized struggles, and the highly controversial decisions she had to make. Candid, funny, and poignant, Going Off Script is an autobiography that proves you don't always have to follow the rules to get the life you've always dreamed of.
Download or read book Robert Mitchum written by Lee Server and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-03-06 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of actor Robert Mitchum in a biography of one of Hollywood's biggest and most colorful stars.
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