Marc Eliot
Born
The United States
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Cary Grant: A Biography
18 editions
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2004
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Jimmy Stewart: A Biography
8 editions
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published
2006
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American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood
24 editions
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published
2009
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Steve McQueen: A Biography
18 editions
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2011
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To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles
4 editions
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published
1998
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Nicholson: A Biography
14 editions
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2013
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Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince : a Biography
13 editions
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published
1993
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American Titan: Searching for John Wayne
9 editions
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2014
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The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard
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Michael Douglas: A Biography
11 editions
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2012
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“The last thing DeMille added to his $13 million film before he delivered the final negative to Paramount was his introduction that ran before the opening credits, filmed with him standing behind a microphone in front of a blue-and-white curtain (the colors of the Israeli flag). His intention was to emphasize the “importance” of what the audience was about to see and how authentic the film really was, and to make the spiritual connection to the Holocaust. DeMille says, in part: “The theme of this picture is whether man ought to be ruled by God’s law, or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Rameses. Are men the property of the state or are they free souls under God? This same battle continues throughout the world today. Our intention was not to create a story, but to be worthy of the divinely inspired story, created three thousand years ago . . .” The introduction was almost always cut after the film’s initial run. That”
― Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon
― Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon
“At the height of this construction frenzy, a couple of opportunistic real estate developers hang a sign near the top of the hills surrounding the valley to advertise their new housing development. It has fifty-foot-high white letters that spell out HOLLYWOODLAND. It is meant to stay there only for one year, or until all the units are sold, whichever happens first, but it never comes down. Shortened to HOLLYWOOD in 1949, it becomes a hovering symbol of the industry of dreams, and to this day watches over Tinseltown like the giant statue of Jesus over Rio de Janeiro. With”
― Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon
― Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon
“When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.”
― Cary Grant: A Biography
― Cary Grant: A Biography
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