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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood / Gail Crowther.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2024Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover editionDescription: ix, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1982185791 (hardcover)
  • 9781982185794 (hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54
LOC classification:
  • PS 3531 P238C 2024
Contents:
Introduction: Out there -- Getting there -- Hollywoodland -- A star is born -- The dreary ivory tower -- A soldier of the republic -- Smash-up -- No happy endings -- Epilogue -- Dorothy Parker films -- Dorothy Parker bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Summary: "The glamorous extravagances and devastating lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker--from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband's suicide. Parker's involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before."-- Provided by publisher.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PS 3531 P238C 2024 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000186867

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-291) and filmography (pages 241-242).

Introduction: Out there -- Getting there -- Hollywoodland -- A star is born -- The dreary ivory tower -- A soldier of the republic -- Smash-up -- No happy endings -- Epilogue -- Dorothy Parker films -- Dorothy Parker bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography.

"The glamorous extravagances and devastating lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker--from leaving New York City to work on numerous classic screenplays such as the 1937 A Star Is Born to the devastation of alcoholism, a miscarriage, and her husband's suicide. Parker's involvement with anti-fascist and anti-racist groups, which led to her ultimate blacklisting, and her early work in the civil rights movement that inspired her to leave her entire estate to the NAACP are also explored as never before."-- Provided by publisher.

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