Shirley Booth - 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 Shirley Booth write by David C. Tucker. This book was released on 2015-03-26. Shirley Booth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Oscar-winning Best Actress for her tour-de-force role in Come Back, Little Sheba, Shirley Booth would ultimately win every major acting award that could be bestowed on an actress. Awarded three Tony Awards, two Emmys, and a Golden Globe, Booth was described by the judges at the Cannes Film Festival as "The World's Best Actress." Yet today fans know her best as the warm-hearted, busybody maid of television's Hazel. This, the first biography of the beloved star, provides complete coverage of a career that encompassed theater, film, radio, and television, and co-stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. It begins with Shirley's childhood in Brooklyn, and her rebellious decision to become an actress against the wishes of her strict father. Included is complete coverage of her tumultuous marriage to radio comedian Ed Gardner (of "Duffy's Tavern" fame), and a second, happier union that ended abruptly with her husband's death of a heart attack. Readers of this exhaustively researched biography will come to know a versatile and gifted star whose career spanned almost 60 years. Appendices provide extensive details of her Broadway, film, radio and television (episode-by-episode) credits.
Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth - 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 Shirley Booth write by Jim Manago. This book was released on 2008. Shirley Booth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jim Manago chronicles Shirley Booth's many years of radio broadcasting, playing in stock theater roles, starring in successful and abortive Broadway shows, to finally reach and go beyond her award winning Broadway performance in Come Back, Little Sheba. "Love is the Reason for it all...." takes the reader through her entire career. The new biography of Shirley Booth examines the critical reception to Shirley's performances, utilizes interviews with her friends and associates, and most notably provides Shirley's own words to reveal her distinct philosophy of life "--From publisher description.
The Time of the Cuckoo
The Time of the Cuckoo - 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 Time of the Cuckoo write by Arthur Laurents. This book was released on 1983. The Time of the Cuckoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leona Samish, a single American woman of a "certain age" takes a long-planned European vacation from her job as a secretary and finds herself in a pensione in Venice, Italy. At a street market, she meets the handsome proprietor Renato DiRossi, entering into a casual flirtation which turns into an affair. Her complacency is jolted when she discovers he is married, has several children and is quite happy with the arrangement as is. Long-dormant frustrations and anger come to the surface as Leona faces the harsh reality of this new found infatuation and her own romantic notions of love. Shirley Booth and later Katharine Hepburn ("Summertime") played the leading role.
For Bill His Pinup Girl: The Shirley Booth & Bill Baker Story
For Bill His Pinup Girl: The Shirley Booth & Bill Baker Story - 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 For Bill His Pinup Girl: The Shirley Booth & Bill Baker Story write by Jim Manago. This book was released on 2010-12. For Bill His Pinup Girl: The Shirley Booth & Bill Baker Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Actress Shirley Booth entertained audiences with her superb comedic and dramatic skills in stage, screen, radio and television productions. Shirley's loving marriage to Army Corporal Bill Baker Jr. during the height of World War II brought her an idyllic life on a working dairy farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1946. The couple's togetherness would end abruptly a few years later, but Shirley's love for Bill remained always. For Bill, His Pinup Girl glimpses those tender years with several precious, never-before-seen photographs belonging to Shirley's family, offers later views of her onstage in the 1954 Broadway musical By the Beautiful Sea, and provides the transcript of a lost television interview with Merv Griffin from 1963. "He loved the farm. He'd seen so much devastation during the war that he wanted to make things grow. But he did too much. He always did the heavy work while his helper drove the tractor. He didn't know he had a heart condition." - Shirley Booth. Jim Manago authored the well-received biography, Love is the Reason for it All: The Shirley Booth Story. The book captured Shirley's determination to succeed, her minimalist approach to acting, and distinct philosophy of life. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy (St. John's University, N.Y.), and received his M.A. in Cinema Studies (The College of Staten Island, CUNY). Jim & Donna Manago Books http: //shirleybooth.info
Food of Japan
Food of Japan - 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 Food of Japan write by Shirley Booth. This book was released on 2000. Food of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers information on the history, culture, recipes, and techniques of Japanese cuisine.
