Лучшие книги Дэвида Брета

Марлен Дитрих оставила в истории кино свой яркий, не стираемый временем след и еще при жизни стала легендой. Совершив переворот в моде, кино, стиле и женском сознании, она олицетворяла собой тип прекрасной и обаятельной женщины, которая обрела непоколебимую силу духа и с царственным величием преодолела отчаяние одиночества. Причудливые виражи судьбы и ошеломительная карьера этой женщины, замешанные на искусстве, политике и сексе, не дают утихнуть спорам о ней и в ХХI веке.

Марлен Дитрих оставила в истории кино свой яркий не стираемый временем след и еще при жизни стала легендой.
Совершив переворот в моде, кино, стиле и женском сознании, она олицетворяла собой тип прекрасной и обаятельной женщины, которая обрела непоколебимую силу духа и с царственным величием преодолела отчаяние одиночества.
Причудливые виражи судьбы и ошеломительная карьера этой женщины, замешанная в искусстве, политике и сексе не дают утихнуть спорам о ней и в XXI веке.

Though there have been numerous biographies of Greta Garbo, this is the first to fully investigate the two so-called missing periods in the life of this most mysterious and enigmatic of all the Hollywood stars. The first, during the late 1920s, when Garbo disappeared completely for several months, forcing the studio to employ a lookalike, was almost certainly to conceal a pregnancy. The second occurred during World War II, when Garbo was employed by British intelligence to track down Nazi sympathizers. In Greta Garbo: Divine Star, David Bret has acquired a large amount of previously unsourced material along with anecdotes from friends and colleagues of the star which have never before been published. For the first time, he paints a complete portrait of her childhood and youth in Sweden. Bret has also sourced copies of all Garbo's films—with the exception The Divine Woman, of which no print survives, including the silent—before scenes were trimmed or cut.

David Bret is one of Britain's leading showbusiness biographers. His many, highly successful, biographies include those of Edith Piaf, Doris Day, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Errol Flynn, and Mario Lanza.

Clark Gable was the archetypal Hollywood gentleman, the kind of man red-blooded women lusted after, and who their envious husbands yearned to be. Yet as David Bret reveals, Gable was also bisexual, a facet of his complex persona that was airbrushed out in an age when such men were invariably mocked as effete and lily-livered. Bret recounts Gable's two failed marriages to women who turned a blind eye towards his affairs with men, such as the actors Earl Larimore, Johnny Mack Brown, William Haines, and Rod LaRocque — men whom Gable outed to the press to prevent himself from being outed. Bret also reveals exclusively that Gable's wartime "heroics," which saw him promoted through the ranks from private to major in less than a year, were no more than an elaborate publicity stunt, which subsequently embarrassed the U.S. government. Bret draws on a wealth of unpublished material to examine every aspect of Clark Gable's career and personal life, telling his story as it has never been told before — wholly uncensored, with accuracy and passion.

Издание на английском языке.

Формат: 16,5 см x 23,5 см.

Book DescriptionA candid portrait of one of the most memorable stars—and notorious rogues—of the Silver Screen.