books by Charlotte Chandler

books by Charlotte Chandler

books:

Charlotte Chandler

Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography

Charlotte Chandler

Simon & Schuster, 2008

Not the Book You Wanted
Not the Girl Next Door is not the book we Crawford fans wanted, which is a pity because Charlotte Chandler has never before let me down. Her book on Bette Davis was astonishingly good! What happened with Crawford? Don't know. All I could think of was that she had ...

Confessions of a Nightingale

Charlotte Chandler, Ray Stricklyn

Samuel French Inc Plays, 1987

Confessions of a Nightingale
This aproximately 90 minute play for 1 actor portaying Tennesee Williams is based on the interviews with this famous writer that appeared in the book The Ultimate Seduction. In this play Mr. Willians, responding to questions from offstage, recounts his career, his ...

Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends

Charlotte Chandler

Simon & Schuster, 2007

A rare glimpse of Groucho toward the end of his life
As the author points out, Groucho was a willing participant in this book but didn't live to see its publication. Charlotte Chandler spent a good deal of time with Groucho in his home toward the end of his life, and it's a perspective not offered by other authors (and ...

Not the Girl Next Door, Joan Crawford
Charlotte Chandler

Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition, 2008

A large print edition of the biography of Joan Crawford.

Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, A Personal Biography

Charlotte Chandler, Billy Wilder

Applause Books, 2004

A WILD, ENJOYABLE READ ABOUT A MOST PERFECT DIRECTOR
There is no one wilder in Hollywood than Billy - Billy Wilder, that is. And the new bio of him, "Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder: A Personal Biography," is as close to the "perfect" non-critical, fun history of a man and his movies. Written by Charlotte Chandler (whose ...

Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography

Charlotte Chandler

Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2008

Ingrid Bergman, a Personal Biography
This was a well-written story about Ingrid Bergman...I had seen her in several movies but did not know about her background. Just things I had read and heard about her. The author really captured her fascinating life in detail from her birth until her death...and ...

It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock - A Personal Biography
Charlotte Chandler

Simon & Schuster Australia, 2005

It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography

Charlotte Chandler

Simon & Schuster, 2005

I Loved This Book
I thought this book was excellent. I love Hitchcock movies, and this is the first biography I have read. I thought it contained wonderful anecdotes and interviews with some of the most famous movie stars of the time. I loved the little summaries of each movie ...

The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis - A Personal Biography

Charlotte Chandler

Applause Books, 2007

A centerfold of black and white photos completes a wonderful coverage
The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, A Personal Biography is a recommended pick for any collection strong in movie star biographies, especially those which aren't overstocked on Bette Davis coverage's already. Film biographer Charlotte Chandler interviewed ...

The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, A Personal Biography
Charlotte Chandler

Simon and Schuster, 2006

A memoir that reveals Bette Davis in her own words, her accounts of career, failed marriages, affairs, and feuds.

Sophy Rickett (Photoworks)
Mark Durden, Urs Stahel, ...

Steidl, 2005

Sophy Rickett's subjects are primarily photographed at night, often located in peripheral and mundane environments. In both color and black and white, her work uses landscape to explore narrative and formal possibilities while it examines and ponders on the potential of photography to conceal as much as it reveals.

Ingrid: A Personal Biography
Charlotte Chandler

Pocket Books, 2008

The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, a Personal Biography
Charlotte Chandler

Pocket Books, 2007

Bettina von Zwehl (Photoworks Monograph)
Darian Leader, Joanna Lowry, ...

Steidl/Photoworks, 2006

Bettina von Zwehl's portraits in series impose exacting conditions on her subjects. She photographs them as they wake from deep sleep, as they hold their breath, as they recover from physical exertion, drenched in rain or listening intently to music in a darkened room. She orchestrates a climate in which they must relinquish control of the way ...

I, Fellini

Charlotte Chandler

Random House, 1995

A remarkable insight to the #1 genius of film in the century
This book was written with love over 14 years of friendship. Fellini speaks all, and I mean everything about his life in the movies. Charlotte Chandler records and organizes interviews with the director so that the entire piece (except one little chapter at the end) is ...