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Bette Davis by David Thomson
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Category: New Biography | Series: Great Stars
'She could look demure while behaving like an empress. Blonde, with eyes like pearls too big for her head, she was very striking, but marginally pretty and certainly not beautiful ...But it was her edge that made her memorable - her upstart superiority, her reluctance to pretend deference to others'. Be ...Show more
Gary Cooper by David Thomson
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Category: New Music Books | Series: Great Stars
'Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, and ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight'. On screen he was the ultimate all-American hero: lean, laconic and masculine, a lone sheriff battling his enemies in "High Noon", or a tough individualist in "T ...Show more
Humphrey Bogart by David Thomson
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Category: New Entertainment | Series: Great Stars
'Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you. You may not like what I say, but you better believe it.' He became a legend as 'Bogie', the world-weary, wise-cracking outsider, ...Show more
Ingrid Bergman by David Thomson
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Category: New Music Books | Series: Great Stars
'Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, 'natural' Swedish girl - she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation'. Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Ingrid Berg ...Show more
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