Judy Holliday

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JUDY HOLLIDAY
An Intimate Life Story Gary Carey
The wit, intelligence, and grace of Judy Holliday's acting mark her as one of the great comediennes of the Forties and Fifties. From her brilliant, Oscar-winning performance in Born Yesterday to her warm and sensitive portrait of Ella Peterson in The Bells Are Ringing, Holliday's style was one of subtlety and true originality.
In this intimate biography, Gary Carey traces the threads of a fascinating but tragically short life and career. What emerges is a portrait of a woman of deep uncertainties and profound ambivalence who found in herself the strength, the drive, and the courage to succeed.
Despite a number of professional setbacks, Holliday's careeer was remarkably successful: immediate praise for her part as one of the satiric Revuers (along with Adolph Green and Betty Comden); an Oscar for Born Yesterday; and critical acclaim for nearly every one of her stage and screen performances.
In 1965, at the age of forty-four,... Tovább

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JUDY HOLLIDAY
An Intimate Life Story Gary Carey
The wit, intelligence, and grace of Judy Holliday's acting mark her as one of the great comediennes of the Forties and Fifties. From her brilliant, Oscar-winning performance in Born Yesterday to her warm and sensitive portrait of Ella Peterson in The Bells Are Ringing, Holliday's style was one of subtlety and true originality.
In this intimate biography, Gary Carey traces the threads of a fascinating but tragically short life and career. What emerges is a portrait of a woman of deep uncertainties and profound ambivalence who found in herself the strength, the drive, and the courage to succeed.
Despite a number of professional setbacks, Holliday's careeer was remarkably successful: immediate praise for her part as one of the satiric Revuers (along with Adolph Green and Betty Comden); an Oscar for Born Yesterday; and critical acclaim for nearly every one of her stage and screen performances.
In 1965, at the age of forty-four, Holliday died of cancer. The strength and courage with which she faced her death — as she had the many other difficulties in her life — had a quality of tragedy and triumph that seemed to be Holliday's hallmark.
Also by Gary Carey and published by Robson Books
ALL THE STARS IN HEAVEN
The definitive appraisal of Louis B. Mayer and M. G.M., tracing the remarkable success story of a man whose name became synonymous with big-time Hollywood and the studio that once boasted of having 'more stars than there are in heaven'.
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From her tempestuous tomboy days and her first fumbling appearances in summer stock, to her twenty devoted years with Spencer Tracy and her recognition as a legend in her own lifetime, Gary Carey's candid biography captures the spirit of one of the most intriguing of stage and film personalities. Vissza