Research Catalog

Title

The Hollywood book of extravagance : the totally infamous, mostly disastrous, and always compelling excesses of America's film and TV idols / James Robert Parish.

Author

Parish, James Robert

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, 2007.

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Details

Description

vii, 280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

A fascinating look at the lavish indulgences of Tinseltown's rich and famous, spans from yesterday's matinee idols to today's hottest celebrities.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Television actors and actresses > United States > Biography
• Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-264) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. So much, so young -- Drew Barrymore -- Danny Bonaduce -- Gary Coleman -- Jackie Coogan -- Macaulay Culkin -- Patty Duke -- Lindsay Lohan -- Tori Spelling -- 2. So much ego -- Richard Burton -- Bette Davis -- Rex Harrison -- Al Jolson -- Jerry Lewis -- Madonna -- Jayne Mansfield -- Burt Reynolds -- Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Barbra Streisand -- Mae West -- 3. So much neurosis -- Woody Allen -- Jean Arthur -- Kim Basinger -- Marlon Brando -- Joan Crawford -- Greta Garbo -- Betty Hutton -- Jennifer Jones -- Oscar Levant -- Marilyn Monroe -- Sean Penn -- Peter Sellers -- 4. So much partying -- John Barrymore -- John Belushi -- Montgomery Clift -- Sandra Dee -- Robert Downey Jr. -- Chris Farley -- W.C. Fields -- Judy Garland -- David Hasselhoff -- Dick Haymes -- Whitney Houston -- Buster Keaton -- Veronica Lake -- Bela Lugosi -- Liza Minnelli -- River Phoenix -- Elvis Presley -- Richard Pryor -- Zachary Scott -- Charlie Sheen -- Gale Storm -- 5. So much power -- Johnny Carson -- Michael Eisner -- Mel Gibson -- Louis B. Mayer -- Louella Parsons -- Martha Stewart -- Lew Wasserman -- 6. So much rich living -- Marion Davies -- Zsa Zsa Gabor -- Sonja Henie -- Paris Hilton -- Howard Hughes -- Demi Moore -- Mary Pickford -- Gloria Swanson -- 7. So much romancing -- Warren Beatty -- Clara Bow -- Louise Brooks -- Charlie Chaplin -- Joan Collins -- Tony Curtis -- Marlene Dietrich -- Errol Flynn -- Ava Gardner -- Lorenzo Lamas -- Jude Law -- Julia Roberts -- Mickey Rooney -- Frank Sinatra -- Elizabeth Taylor -- Lana Turner -- Shelley Winters.

ISBN

• 9780470052051 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0470052058 (cloth)

LCCN

^^2006100246

OCLC

• 76898077
• SCSB-11996805

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library