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In 1919, a young widow from Chicago arrives in Hollywood with almost no money but unlimited ambition. She?s determined to make her seven year-old daughter the greatest movie star of them all. From child starlet to screen goddess, this is the story of the meteoric rise of Baby Jewel. Propelled through the star system by her glamorous, calculating mother Elva, Baby?s life unrolls in spools of celluloid. Running Time blends fictional characters with a historical cast of thousands, including DW Griffith, Theda Bara, Louis B Mayer, Bugsy Siegel, Howard Hughes, Errol Flynn, Hedda Hopper, WR Hearst and Marion Davies.
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Gavin Lambert?s elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood in a way that has yet to be rivalled (Armistead Maupin)
One of the most ingenious, imaginative, scholarly, and entertaining blends of fiction and fact that I have ever read? I would go so far as to say that this is the first novel which movie buffs can read with respect to the author?s accuracy (Alexander Walker ?One doesn?t have to have lived and worked in Hollywood to be amused and fascinated by this novel with a dual identity. This is the portrait of an indefatigable woman but also quite unmistakably a unique life-history of the American film industry)
' Paul Bowles
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One of the most ingenious, imaginative, scholarly, and entertaining blends of fiction and fact that I have ever read? I would go so far as to say that this is the first novel which movie buffs can read with respect to the author?s accuracy (Alexander Walker ?One doesn?t have to have lived and worked in Hollywood to be amused and fascinated by this novel with a dual identity. This is the portrait of an indefatigable woman but also quite unmistakably a unique life-history of the American film industry)
' Paul Bowles
Gavin Lambert was born in England but has lived for much of his life in Hollywood. He is the author of several novels (The Slide Area, Inside Daisy Clover, The Goodbye People), non-fiction (including On Cukor, The Dangerous Edge) and screenplays (Sons and Lovers, for which he gained an Academy Award nomination, and Inside Daisy Clover). Gavin Lambert's biography of Lindsay Anderson has recently been published and he is currently writing a biography of Natalie Wood.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0140064990
- ISBN 13 9780140064995
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages464
- IllustratorSERGE KRONGLIKOFF(COVER PHOTOGRAPH)
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