Kay Francis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kay Francis write by Scott O'Brien. This book was released on 2007. Kay Francis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I Can't Wait To Be Forgotten pays tribute to Kay's compassionate nature, her concern for others, her great contributions on behalf of those serving in the armed forces during World War II, and the financial legacy she contributed to The Seeing Eye. Kay felt that being of some service to others was far more important than focusing totally on promoting herself and a film career. Readers will be surprised to learn about the real Kay Francis in retirement. Her godsons paint a portrait of a woman who lived in the moment, and generated a great deal of loving warmth. Many rare, unpublished photos from Kay's youth and retirement years are featured in her biography. Interviews from co-workers, friends and children of her ex's complete the picture of one of Hollywood's most glamorous and intriguing stars.
Kay Francis
Kay Francis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kay Francis write by Lynn Kear. This book was released on 2015-02-12. Kay Francis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kay Francis came of age in the Roaring Twenties and relished the era's hedonistic pursuits. Her career as an actress was launched at the same time, and before her death in 1968, she had appeared on many theater stages, in more than 60 films, on radio, in USO tours, as a model, and on television. The tall, stylish actress had a husky voice and dark beauty that was striking on film. Despite her financial success, relaxed morals, and life as a socialite, the millionaire actress shunned luxuries such as limousines and sprawling estates popular among Hollywood elite. The actress, who insisted she wanted to be forgotten, left behind scrapbooks, boxes of memorabilia and detailed diaries. These rich resources help provide an exhaustive look at the life of one of Hollywood's most intriguing early stars. Francis' biography is the heart of this book, beginning with her family background and her upbringing by a vaudevillian actress mother. The story of her extensive career and never-ending romantic pursuits is peppered with comments from the media and her own diaries, and supplemented with ample photographs. A chronology gives dates of theater openings, film releases, marriages, television and radio appearances, births and deaths. A filmography includes complete cast and credit lists.
The Complete Kay Francis Career Record
The Complete Kay Francis Career Record - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Complete Kay Francis Career Record write by Lynn Kear. This book was released on 2016-03-30. The Complete Kay Francis Career Record available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the definitive guide to the film, stage, radio and television career of Kay Francis, one of the most glamorous stars from the golden age of Hollywood. For each film, the authors provide a thorough synopsis plus cast and crew information (including biographies), opening dates, production notes, behind-the-scenes details, and reviews. In addition, information is provided on her stage, radio, and television appearances, and a section is devoted to collecting Kay Francis memorabilia, including such items as cigarette cards, sheet music and soundtracks. Also covered is the stage and vaudeville career of Kay Francis' mother, Katherine Clinton. A brief biography of Kay Francis is provided, along with an insightful foreword by film scholar James Robert Parish. Truly a treasure trove for Kay Francis fans and anyone interested in classic filmmaking in the 1930s and 1940s, the book includes more than 130 illustrations, many of them rare.
One More Dance
One More Dance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One More Dance write by Kay Francis. This book was released on 2011-07-18. One More Dance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beth Waterford has been struggling to rebuild her life around her riding friends and her family since her husbands sudden death. She is content for the most part until the other man she might have married forty years ago unexpectedly comes courting. Should she choose to abandon her hard won peace to risk a new life with an old love that disappointed her in the past? Reluctantly, she reaches out, finds herself in love again, fighting his daughter who will not accept a woman in her fathers life and her own uncertainties. The honeymoon is planned but the groom disappears. His daughter says he is dead. Beths psychic friend insists he is not. How hard will she fight to find the truth?
A Woman's View
A Woman's View - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Woman's View write by Jeanine Basinger. This book was released on 2013-09-04. A Woman's View available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now, Voyager, Stella Dallas, Leaver Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life, Mildred Pierce, Gilda…these are only a few of the hundreds of “women’s films” that poured out of Hollywood during the thirties, forties, and fifties. The films were widely disparate in subject, sentiment, and technique, they nonetheless shared one dual purpose: to provide the audience (of women, primarily) with temporary liberation into a screen dream—of romance, sexuality, luxury, suffering, or even wickedness—and then send it home reminded of, reassured by, and resigned to the fact that no matter what else she might do, a woman’s most important job was…to be a woman. Now, with boundless knowledge and infectious enthusiasm, Jeanine Basinger illuminates the various surprising and subversive ways in which women’s films delivered their message. Basinger examines dozens of films, exploring the seemingly intractable contradictions at the convoluted heart of the woman’s genre—among them, the dilemma of the strong and glamorous woman who cedes her power when she feels it threatening her personal happiness, and the self-abnegating woman whose selflessness is not always as “noble” as it appears. Basinger looks at the stars who played these women and helps us understand the qualities—the right off-screen personae, the right on-screen attitudes, the right faces—that made them personify the woman’s film and equipped them to make believable drama or comedy out of the crackpot plots, the conflicting ideas, and the exaggerations of real behavior that characterize these movies. In each of the films the author discusses—whether melodrama, screwball comedy, musical, film noir, western, or biopic—a woman occupies the center of her particular universe. Her story—in its endless variations of rags to riches, boy meets girl, battle of the sexes, mother love, doomed romance—inevitably sends a highly potent mixed message: Yes, you women belong in your “proper place” (that is, content with the Big Three of the women’s film world—men, marriage, and motherhood), but meanwhile, and paradoxically, see what fun, glamour, and power you can enjoy along the way. A Woman’s View deepens our understanding of the times and circumstances and attitudes out of which these movies were created.
