Author: Frank Castelluccio
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425176092
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The only biography of Vivian Vance is now in paperback, with dozens of rare photographs and handwritten correspondence. Drawn from exclusive interviews with the actress's friends and acquaintances, as well as her own unpublished memoirs, this book tells the whole story about the former glamor girl, including her struggle with a violent depression, her failed love affairs, and her tumultuous friendship with Lucille Ball.
The Other Side of Ethel Mertz
Author: Frank Castelluccio
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425176092
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The only biography of Vivian Vance is now in paperback, with dozens of rare photographs and handwritten correspondence. Drawn from exclusive interviews with the actress's friends and acquaintances, as well as her own unpublished memoirs, this book tells the whole story about the former glamor girl, including her struggle with a violent depression, her failed love affairs, and her tumultuous friendship with Lucille Ball.
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425176092
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The only biography of Vivian Vance is now in paperback, with dozens of rare photographs and handwritten correspondence. Drawn from exclusive interviews with the actress's friends and acquaintances, as well as her own unpublished memoirs, this book tells the whole story about the former glamor girl, including her struggle with a violent depression, her failed love affairs, and her tumultuous friendship with Lucille Ball.
The Other Side of Ethel Mertz
Author: Frank Castelluccio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879198265
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Fascinating." -Hollywood Reporter "Good stuff." -New York Daily News The entertaining, complex, and surprising true story of the funniest -and most instantly recognizable -sidekick in TV history: Vivian Vance.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879198265
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Fascinating." -Hollywood Reporter "Good stuff." -New York Daily News The entertaining, complex, and surprising true story of the funniest -and most instantly recognizable -sidekick in TV history: Vivian Vance.
Meet the Mertzes
Author: Rob Edelman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466850469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. This meticulously researched book contains interviews with Frawley's and Vance's colleagues, friends, and relatives, and explores their personal and professional lives before, during, and after I Love Lucy. With a complete filmography and videography of each, Meet the Mertzes finally sets the record straight on the lives and legacies of these compelling stars who detested one another. You'll learn about: -Vance's successful Broadway career prior to I Love Lucy -Frawley's vaudevillian roots and his passion for baseball -Vance's nervous breakdown after the collapse of her first marriage -Frawley's drinking and carousing -Lucille Ball's caustic relationship with both of her costars -Vance's hatred of being known to the world as Ethel Mertz
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466850469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Meet the Mertzes is an expansive dual biography chronicling the lives of two of America's most popular situation-comedy actors, William Frawley and Vivian Vance, who portrayed Fred and Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy. This meticulously researched book contains interviews with Frawley's and Vance's colleagues, friends, and relatives, and explores their personal and professional lives before, during, and after I Love Lucy. With a complete filmography and videography of each, Meet the Mertzes finally sets the record straight on the lives and legacies of these compelling stars who detested one another. You'll learn about: -Vance's successful Broadway career prior to I Love Lucy -Frawley's vaudevillian roots and his passion for baseball -Vance's nervous breakdown after the collapse of her first marriage -Frawley's drinking and carousing -Lucille Ball's caustic relationship with both of her costars -Vance's hatred of being known to the world as Ethel Mertz
I Loved Lucy
Author: Lee Tannen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312302740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Few people knew Lucille Ball the way Lee Tannen did. Lee first met Lucy as a child, but their close and enduring relationship began almost twenty-five years later. Now, Tannen gives us an intimate portrait of the "lost" Lucy years: from what life was like in her Beverly Hills and Palm Springs hideaways to how she traveled, what she ate, and how she entertained. I Loved Lucy reveals for the first time the private face of a beloved star whose public persona is the most famous in television history.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312302740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Few people knew Lucille Ball the way Lee Tannen did. Lee first met Lucy as a child, but their close and enduring relationship began almost twenty-five years later. Now, Tannen gives us an intimate portrait of the "lost" Lucy years: from what life was like in her Beverly Hills and Palm Springs hideaways to how she traveled, what she ate, and how she entertained. I Loved Lucy reveals for the first time the private face of a beloved star whose public persona is the most famous in television history.
A Book
Author: Desi Arnaz
Publisher: William Morrow &Company
ISBN: 9780688003425
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: William Morrow &Company
ISBN: 9780688003425
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Don't Drink the Water
Author: Woody Allen
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573608179
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Farce / 12m, 4f / Int. A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking. It's not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa. Nevertheless, they carefully
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573608179
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Farce / 12m, 4f / Int. A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking. It's not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa. Nevertheless, they carefully
Desilu
Author: Coyne S. Sanders
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688135145
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A dual biography of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball focuses on the star-crossed marriage that sired one of the most powerful production empires in television history but ended in disintegration.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688135145
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A dual biography of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball focuses on the star-crossed marriage that sired one of the most powerful production empires in television history but ended in disintegration.
Morbid Curiosity
Author: Alan W. Petrucelli
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101140496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"It's shocking and sinful, and I couldn't put it down!" -Joan Rivers The strange, startling, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths. Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated? Which manly appendage of Napoleon's was cut off during his autopsy? (And where did it go?) What went to the grave (literally) with River Phoenix, Frank Sinatra, and Princess Diana? Death is fascinating. Just think about the last time you slowed down as you passed the scene of a car accident. When a public figure bites the dust, the curiosity only increases. From Attila the Hun to Marie Antoinette, from Heath Ledger to Anna Nicole Smith, the deaths of the rich and famous spark endless speculation and tabloid fodder. Their lives-and deaths-are grave matters.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101140496
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"It's shocking and sinful, and I couldn't put it down!" -Joan Rivers The strange, startling, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths. Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated? Which manly appendage of Napoleon's was cut off during his autopsy? (And where did it go?) What went to the grave (literally) with River Phoenix, Frank Sinatra, and Princess Diana? Death is fascinating. Just think about the last time you slowed down as you passed the scene of a car accident. When a public figure bites the dust, the curiosity only increases. From Attila the Hun to Marie Antoinette, from Heath Ledger to Anna Nicole Smith, the deaths of the rich and famous spark endless speculation and tabloid fodder. Their lives-and deaths-are grave matters.
Sidekicked
Author: Kim Powers
Publisher: Steele Spring Stage Rights
ISBN: 9781647230401
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Full-Length Script | After years of playing Ethel Mertz, the housecoat-wearing sidekick to America's favorite sit-com star on I Love Lucy, Vivian Vance has a lot she needs to get off her chest. In her dressing room on the night of the show's final filming, she issues an SOS to her long-time analyst: help me understand who I really am before I'm stuck being Ethel forever. And she relives it all: the Good, the Bad, and the Lucy. (1F, 1 Offstage Voice)
Publisher: Steele Spring Stage Rights
ISBN: 9781647230401
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Full-Length Script | After years of playing Ethel Mertz, the housecoat-wearing sidekick to America's favorite sit-com star on I Love Lucy, Vivian Vance has a lot she needs to get off her chest. In her dressing room on the night of the show's final filming, she issues an SOS to her long-time analyst: help me understand who I really am before I'm stuck being Ethel forever. And she relives it all: the Good, the Bad, and the Lucy. (1F, 1 Offstage Voice)
Spying in High Heels
Author: Gemma Halliday
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
ISBN: 0984857400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in embezzled funds - and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300 pound psychic and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer. But can she catch a killer before the killer catches up to her.
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
ISBN: 0984857400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in embezzled funds - and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300 pound psychic and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer. But can she catch a killer before the killer catches up to her.