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Axel Madsen
Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck-to name a few-maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to…
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Distributed in 2015 by Open Road Distribution.
The ultimate Hollywood story revealed: the sizzling relationship between Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of America’s most influential political family, and Gloria Swanson, one of the most prominent silent film stars of…
Distributed in 2015 by Open Road Distribution. Original copyright date: 1976.
A dual biography of the two most influential socio-political moralists of the twentieth century, whose lives were intertwined personally and intellectually for more than forty-six years. Madsen provides an engrossing…
The authorized biography of the celebrated film director William Wyler, a giant in his craft, who directed such classics as Ben-Hur, Funny Girl, and Roman Holiday.
Sonia Delaunay, wife of painter RobertDelaunay, and co-founder of the Orphist school in 1910, was the center of a brilliant circle in Paris. Madsen offers a rich and compelling look…
A biography of one of the twentieth century’s greatest fashion icons, reissued to coincide with the biopic Coco avant Chanel.
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Marshall Field was the least flawed of the Gilded Age robber barons. This book weaves business, politics, and celebrity into a tale of five generations of Fields from the first…
On The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors: A well-written biography. -New York Times On Stanwyck: The Life and Times of Barbara Stanwyck: Madsen’s admirably researched, insightful…
The first major biography of the famous and controversial director John Huston, whose thirty-seven films including The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, and The African Queen are considered classics and garnered…
Chronicles Gabrielle Chanel’s remarkable climb from poverty to the forefront of the international fashion industry and explores her illustrious collection of friends and lovers.
