Stefan Kanfer

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1) Tough without a gun: the life and extraordinary afterlife of Humphrey Bogart

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Kanfer, Stefan

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

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The definitive biography of one of the great movie icons of the twentieth century, and a wide-reaching appraisal of the actor's singular legacy.

2) Somebody: the reckless life and remarkable career of Marlon Brando: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando

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Kanfer, Stefan

Pub. Date

2008

Language

English

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Interweaves Marlon Brando's tumultuous personal life with his remarkable acting career to document the actor's troubled childhood, stage and film work, often contradictory attitude toward his craft, and the tragedies that marked his final years

3) Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando

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Kanfer, Stefan

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English

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Brando is perpetually fascinating, both for the power of the characters he portrayed and for his tumultuous personal life. Bestselling biographer Stefan Kanfer seamlessly intertwines the man and the work to give us the fullest and most illuminating appraisal yet. Kanfer takes us from Brando's troubled childhood to his arrival in New York in the 1940s, where he studied with the legendary Stella Adler and became, at age twenty-three, the star of Broadway...

4) Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball

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Kanfer, Stefan

Language

English

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As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, "queen of the B-pluses." But on the small screen she was a superstar-arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy's genius and places it in the context of her conflicted and sometimes bitter personal life. Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions. Here is the beauty who became a master of knock-down...