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Online resource digital clippings file		CELEBRITIES Digital clippings file available Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CELEBRITIES URL status: URL: 'http://file://Q:/S/CELEBRITIES.zip' Checked: 31/08/2021 1:17:17 PM Status: Error Details: Failed to send HTTP request (WinHttpSendRequest) More info
subject clippings file		CELEBRITIES. AUSTRALIA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CELEBRITIES. AUSTRALIA More info
subject clippings file		CELEBRITIES IN FILMS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CELEBRITIES IN FILMS More info
newspaper article		Dark desires in Sydney Morning Herald [Spectrum] (20/06/2015) p.1 Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE; AMY (UK, Asif Kapadia, 2015) Author: Bunbury, Stephanie PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: STARS; CELEBRITIES; AMY (UK, Asif Kapadia, 2015) Summary: Article about the documentary Amy, which is the story of deceased singer Amy Winehouse, as well as looking at the perils of stardom for entertainers More info
Levy Collection book		Hollywood confidential : an inside look at the public careers and private lives of Hollywood's rich and famous / Coral Amende New York: Plume, c1997. Call No: 465.1 AME Author: Amende, Coral Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Plume PubDate: c1997 PhysDes: xiii, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: ACTORS; HOLLYWOOD; CELEBRITIES Summary: "Tinseltown has always been the mecca for image and ego, the Babylon of outlandish wealth and outrageous acts. Now Hollywood Confidential serves up the dish, rumors, lists, firsts, and worsts about the glitziest, trashiest, most megalomaniacal celebrities of our time. From how they got their start and how much they're worth to their rich fantasy lives and who's been with whom, you'll read it all here: hundreds of our favorite stars, from Demi, Sharon, and Arnold to Keanu, Winona, and Quentin. Here are the "Most Embarrassing Oscar Moments," "Coming Apart at the Scenes," "Shortest Marriages in Hollywood History," "The Anti-Social Register," and "Odd Couples." Completely unauthorized, uncensored, and unabashed, Hollywood Confidential unveils the secrets of the stars, proving once and for all that there really is no business like show business. " -BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0452277914 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Hollywood, interrupted : insanity chic in Babylon - the case against celebrity / by Andrew breitbart an Mark Ebner Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. Call No: 46(794) BRE Author: Breitbart, Andrew; Ebner, Mark Edition: 2004 Place: Hoboken, New Jersey Publisher: John Wiley and Sons PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 394 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Subject: HOLLYWOOD; CELEBRITIES; LOVE, COURTNEY; MADONNA; JACKSON, MICHAEL; SPIELBERG, STEVEN Summary: Hollywood, Interrupted is a sometimes frightening, occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part of show business personalities. Charting celebrities from rehab to retox, to jails, cults, institutions, near-death experiences and the Democratic Party, Hollywood, Interrupted takes readers on a surreal field trip into the amoral belly of the entertainment industry. Each chapter — covering topics including warped Hollywood child-rearing, bad medicine, hypocritical political maneuvering and the complicit media — delivers a meticulously researched, interview-infused, attitude heavy dispatch which analyzes and deconstructs the myths created by the celebrities themselves. Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood, Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more. -- publisher's web site ISBN: 9780471706243 More info
book		The spectacular modern woman : Feminine visibility in the 1920s / Liz Conor Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. Call No: 451 02 "192" CON Author: Conor, Liz Edition: 1st ed. Source: USA Place: Bloomington, Indiana Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 334 p. : b+w ill. ; 23 cm Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; PROSTITUTES IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; MEDIA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; ADVERTISING; CARTOONS; CELEBRITIES IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE; KELLERMAN, ANNETTE; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; LYELL, LOTTIE; MOTH OF MOONBI, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926); GIRL OF THE BUSH, A (AT, Franklyn Barrett, 1921); FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); GREENHIDE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926) Summary: In The Spectacular Modern Woman, Liz Conor illustrates how technological advances in image reproduction transformed Wetter industrial societies into visual or ‘oculacentric’ cultures with significant and complex consequences for women’s lives. With the rise of mass media, Conor shows how women’s identities were intimately tied to the visual culture of the day. [Taken from back cover]. ISBN: 0253216702 More info
journal article		Star! in Lumiere (June, 1973) iss.24 p.16-19 Author: Nicholls, Rod PhysDes: Article Subject: HOLLYWOOD; CELEBRITIES; ACTORS Summary: Article on the Hollywood 'star' system of actors and actresses being chosen for roles based on how their name runs at the box-office. More info
Interim book		Stars in our eyes : the star phenomenon in the contemporary era / Edited by Angela Ndalianis and Charlotte Henry London: Praeger Publishers, 2002. Call No: 465.1 STA Author: Henry, Charlotte; Ndalianis, Angela Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Praeger Publishers PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: xviii, 185p. : illus. : 24cm. Subject: ACTORS; ANIMATION; CELEBRITIES IN FILMS; COMPUTER GAMES; DE NIRO, ROBERT; HOPPER, DENNIS; Peckinpah, Sam; PRINCESS OF WALES, DIANA; REEVES, KEANU; SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD; STALLONE, SYLVESTER; ROCKY (US, John G. Avildsen, 1976) Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN: 0275974804 More info
book		Television Personalities : stardom and the small screen / James Bennett London ; New York: Routledge, 2011. Call No: 465.1 BEN Author: Bennett, James Source: US Place: London ; New York Publisher: Routledge PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: xii, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: BROADCASTING; PERSONALITIES ON TV; CELEBRITIES Summary: " Celebrities have come to increasingly dominate the media and its study in contemporary culture. Although acknowledged as part of this general rise in the importance of celebrity culture, television's specific forms of stardom have until now remained largely under-theorised. Television Personalities examines how television personalitites function as commodities, and also function ideologically, thus relating them to issues of class, national identity, sexuality, gender and social history. Television Personalities sets out a new way of considering televisual fame, arguing that it must be understood on its own terms, and thus establishing the televsion personality as a particular set of performers whose celebrity is contstructed through discourses of ordinariness, authenticity and intimacy. The book is divided into three sections that trace the historical development of televisual fame from the 1950s through to the emergence of 'DIY' celebrity in the digital era" -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([206]-215] and index. ISBN: 9780415481892 Contents: Introduction -- The television personality system. TV must train its own stars : the invention of the television personality -- An "irreconcilable opposition" : music hall, radio and the emergence of televisual skill -- "Too much glamour"? : glamour, gender and "in-vision" announcers -- "Oooh, I'm an entertainer-- it's what I do" : political economy, performance and pleasure. "You don't know anyone ..."? : the political economy of television fame -- The art of "being yourself" : pleasure, meaning and achievement in performance -- The television personality system revisited : ideology, multiplatform and DIY fame. Just "an ordinary bloke" : national identity and ideology -- Get Internet famous! (even if you're nobody) : multiplatform fame and the television personality system in the digital era -- Conclusion. More info
book		Watching them be : star presence on the screen from Garbo to Balthazar New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Call No: 465 HAR Author: Harvey, James Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux PubDate: 2014 PhysDes: xiii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Subject: STAR SYSTEM; STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES IN FILMS Summary: Demystifying the "star presence" in cinema, this provocative look at how aura is communicated in movies throughout history celebrates the actors and directors who have particularly conveyed a feeling of transcendence including Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Robert De Niro and Roberto Rossellini. Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index ISBN: 9780571211975 Contents: Part One: Icons -- Garbo -- Dietrich and Sternberg -- Bergman and Selznick -- Wayne and Ford -- Davis and Wyler -- Charles Laughton --; Part Two: Realists -- Robert De Niro -- Altman's Nashville -- Jackie Brown and Others -- Godard's Close-ups --; Part Three: Transcenders -- Bergman and Rossellini -- Dreyer's Heroines -- Balthazar More info
book		Whatever became of ... ? : fifth series / Richard Lamparski New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1974. Call No: 802.27 WHA v.5 Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES Summary: "The story of what has happened to famous personalities of yesteryear"-BOOK JACKET Notes: Based on the author's radio program, Whatever became of ... ? ISBN: 0517516853 LON: 75001372; 379859 Contents: -- Kirk Alyn -- Amon 'n' Andy -- Heather Angel -- Corliss Archer -- Henry Armstrong -- Nils Asther -- Baby sandy -- John Barrymore, Jr. -- Matthew Beard, Jr. -- Lee Bowman -- "Pappy" Boyington -- Hilary Brooke -- Tom Brown -- Jane Bryan -- John Bubbles -- May Sutton Bundy -- Sue Carol -- "Captain Midnight" -- "Nick Carter, Master Detective" -- Florence Chadwick -- Lita Grey Chaplin -- Mickey Cohen -- Anita Colby -- Viola Dana -- Gail Davis -- Frances Dee -- Philip Dorn -- Ruth Etting -- "Front Page Farrell" -- Edith Fellows -- Virginia Field -- "The First Nighter" - Ditra Flame, "The Lady in Black" -- Jane Frazee -- Jane Froman -- Tony Galento -- William Gargan -- "The Great Gildersleeve" -- Virginia Grey -- Jean Hagen -- Neil Hamilton -- Russell Hayden -- Louis Hayward -- Darryl Hickman -- Jose Iturbi -- Adele Jergens -- Allan Jones -- "Lorenzo Jones," Karl Swenson --Allyn Joslyn -- Beatrice Kay -- Ricky Keith -- Miliza Korjus -- Kurt Kreuger -- June Lang -- Jack La Rue -- Mary Livingston -- William Lundigan -- Jeffrey Lynn -- Dorothy McGuire -- Guy Madison -- Margo -- Marion Marlowe -- The Mauch Twins -- Vaughn Meader -- Perle Mesta -- Miss America of 1942 -- Miss America of 1943 -- Archie Moore -- David Nelson -- Jimmy Nelson -- Ray Noble -- Anita Page -- Cecilia Parker -- Gail patrick -- Jean parker -- Lee Patrick -- Herbert A. Philbrick -- Jimmy Piersall -- Francis Gary Powers -- Gene Raymond -- Donna Reed -- Betty Rowland -- Lili St. Cyr -- Olga San Juan -- The Seven Little Foys -- Anne Shirley -- Larry Simms, "Baby Dumpling" -- Charles Starrett -- Linda Stirling -- Gale Storm -- Gloria Stuart -- Gene Tierney -- Martha Tilton -- "Vera Vague", Barbara Jo Allen -- "Vic and Sade" -- Burt Ward -- Michael Whalen -- Michael Wilding -- Lois Wilson -- George "Foghorn" Winslow -- More info
book		Whatever became of ... ? : second series / Richard Lamparski New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1968. Call No: 802.27 WHA v.2 Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1968 PhysDes: 206 p. : ill.; 24 cm Series: Second series Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES Summary: "The story of what has happened to more famous personalities of yesteryear"-BOOK JACKET Notes: Based on the author's radio program, Whatever became of ... ?; Fifth printing LON: 68009092; 716356 Contents: Acknowledgements -- "Bud" Abbott -- Ted Atkinson -- Gene Austin -- "Axis" Sally -- Binnie Barnes -- Beverly Bayne -- Dave Beck -- Edgar Bergen -- Warren K. Billings -- John Boles -- William Boyd -- Joe E. Brown -- Viginia Bruce -- Madeleine Carroll -- Ezzard Char;es -- Ina Claire -- Betty Compson -- Billy Conn -- Katharine Cornell -- Ricardo Cortez -- Dolores Costello -- Glenn Cunningham -- Garry Davis -- Hazel Dawn -- Dizzy Dean -- Carol Dempster -- Andy Devine -- Thomas E. Dewey -- Billie Dover -- Eddie Dowling -- Morton Downey -- Ann Dvorak -- Faye Emerson -- Charles Farrell -- Brenda Frazier -- Janet Gaynor -- Billy Gilbert -- Leo Gorcey -- Hank Greenberg -- Corinne Griffith -- Dick Haymes -- Horace Heidt -- Eleanor Holm -- Tim Holt -- Darla Hood -- Maria Jeritza -- Annette Kellerman -- Evelyn Keyes -- Arthur Lake -- Frances Langford -- Laura La Plante -- Pinky Lee -- Lotte Lehmann -- Nathan Leopold -- Ted Lewis -- Harold Lloyd -- Jacqueline Logan -- Marjorie Main -- Giovanni Martinelli -- Jessie Matthews -- Victor Mature -- Butterfly McQueen -- Lauritz Melchior -- King Michael I of Rumania -- Mitzi -- Colleen Moore -- "Gorgeous Gussie" Moran -- Dennis Morgan -- Gertrude Niesen -- "Mrs. Nussbaum" -- Jack oakie -- Margaret O'Brien -- Ann Pennington -- Lily Pons -- Eleanor Powell -- William Powell -- Aileen Pringle -- Esther Ralston -- Jeanette Rankin -- Paul Robeson -- Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson -- Rubinoff -- Harold Russell -- Barbara Ann Scott -- Howard Scott -- Artie Shaw -- Johhny Sheffield -- Simone Simon -- Penny Singleton -- Smith and Dale -- Buffalo Bob Smith -- Gladys Swathout -- Sonny Tufts -- Mickey Walker -- Ethel Waters -- Weyerhauser Baby, The -- Ireene Wicker -- Esther Williams -- Claire Windsor -- Fay Wray -- More info
book		Whatever became of...? : All new tenth series : 100 profiles of the most-asked-about movie stars and TV personalities : hundreds of never-before-published facts, dates, etc., on celebrities : over 200 then-and-now photographs / Richard Lamparski New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. Call No: 802.27 WHA Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: viii, 214 p. : ports. ; 23 cm Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES ISBN: 0517562294 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Whatever became of...? : first series / Richard Lamparski ; Introduction by Cleveland Amory New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1972. Call No: 802.27 WHA v.1 Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 207p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES Summary: "The story of what has happened to famous personalities of yesteryear"-BOOK JACKET Notes: Introduction by Cleveland Amory; Based on the author's radio program, Whatever became of ... ?; Ninth printing ISBN: 0517501147 Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Beverly Aadland -- Larry Adler -- Amos 'n' Andy -- Annabella -- John J. Anthony -- Eddie Arcaro -- Richard Arlen -- Adele Astaire -- Charles Atlas -- Mischa Auer -- Gene Autry -- Baby Peggy -- Elaine Barrie Barrymore -- Freddie Bartholomew -- Elisabeth Bergner -- The Boswell Sisters -- James J. Braddock -- Bobby Breen -- John W. Bricker -- Donald Budge -- Judy Canova -- Primo Carnera -- Georges Carpentier -- Irene Castle -- Chester Conklin -- Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan -- Charles E. Coughlin -- Larry "Buster" Crabbe -- Bebe Daniels -- Martin Dies -- Helen Gahagan Douglas -- Jessica Dragonette -- Irene Dunne -- Gertrude Ederle -- Hamilton Fish -- Paulette Goddard -- Dagmar Dogowsky -- "Red" Grange -- Fred A. Hartley -- Gabriel Heatter -- Sonja Henie -- Alger Hiss -- Libby Holman -- Carl Hubbell -- Helen Hull Jacobs -- Ray H. Jenkins -- Johnny -- Bobby Jones -- Christine Jorgensen -- Leatrice Joy -- Hubert F. Julian -- Ruby Keeler -- Patsy Kelly -- Rockwell Kent -- Alexander Kerensky -- William F. Knowland -- Veronica Lake -- Alfred M. Landon -- Lila Lee -- Joan Leslie -- John L. Lewis -- Charles A. Lindbergh -- Ella Logan -- Lum 'n' Abner -- Magda Lupescu -- David Manners -- Ilona Massey -- Patsy Ruth Miller -- Helen Wills Moody -- Miss America of 1919 -- Miss America of 1941 -- Pola Negri -- Ramon Novarro -- Gerald P. Nye -- Jesse Owens -- Larry Parks -- Jack Pearl -- Luise Rainer -- Sally Rand -- Anne Revere -- Irene Rich -- Harry Richman -- Lanny Ross -- Evelyn Rudie -- Max Schmeling -- John T. Scopes -- Norma Shearer -- Gerald L. K. Smith -- Gale Sondergaard -- Phil Spitalny -- Anna Sten -- Stepin Fetchit -- Blanche Sweet -- Constance Talmadge -- Arthur Tracy: "The Street Singer" -- Gene Tunney -- "Jersey Joe" Walcott -- Johnny Weissmuller -- Bert Wheeler -- Burton K. Wheeler -- More info
book		Whatever became of...? : third series / Richard Lamparski New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1973. Call No: 802.27 WHA v.3 Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1973 PhysDes: 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES Summary: "The story of what has happened to more famous personalities of yesteryear"-BOOK JACKET Notes: Based on the author's radio program, Whatever became of ... ?; Fourth printing ISBN: 051750443X Contents: -- Sherman Adams -- The Andrews Sisters-- Lew Ayres -- Kenny Baker -- Busby Berkeley -- Sally Blane -- Betty Blythe -- Evelyn Brent -- Betty Bronson -- Louise Brooks -- Earl Browder -- Johnny Mack Brown -- Spring Byington -- James F. Byrnes -- Corinne Calvet -- Mary Carlisle -- Hoagy Carmichael -- Linda Christian -- Dorothy Collins -- Jerry Colonna -- Joyce Compton -- Dick Contino -- Cheryl Crane -- Laraine Day -- Dolores Del Rio -- The Dionne Quintuplets -- Ruth Donnelly -- Ray Dooley -- Fifi D'Orsay -- Vivian Duncan -- Cliff Edwards -- Ralph Edwards -- Andre Eglevsky -- Clifton Fadiman -- Peggy Fears -- Jimmy Fidler -- Shep Fields -- Susanna Foster -- Rudolph Friml -- Peggy Ann Garner -- Charles Gehringer -- Max Gordon -- Jack Haley -- Jon Hall -- Billy Halop -- June Haver -- "Helen Trent" -- "Henry Aldrich" -- Sterling Holloway -- Rochelle Hudson -- Jackie "Butch" Jenkins -- "Just Plain Bill" -- Christine Keeler -- John F. Kieran -- Otto E. Kruger -- Hal Le Roy -- George Liberace -- "Ma Perkins" -- May McAvoy -- Mary Margaret McBride -- Joel McCrea -- Spanky McFarland -- Fibber McGee -- "The Mad Russian" -- Una Merkel -- Robert Montgomery -- Dickie Moore -- Mantan Moreland -- Arthur Murray -- Anna Q. Nilsson -- Elliott Nugent -- Helen O'Connell -- John Payne -- George Raft -- Duncan Renaldo -- Mandy Rice-Davies -- Charles "Buddy" Rogers -- Will Rogers, Jr. -- Mike Romanoff -- Lillian Roth -- Lizabeth Scott -- Randolph Scott -- Vivienne Segal -- Jack Sharkey -- Sylvia Sidney -- Ginny Sims -- Ethel Smith -- "Stella Dallas" -- Senator Glen H. Taylor -- "Tokyo Rose" -- Alexandra Tolstoy -- "Tonto" -- Peter Townsend -- Myrtle ("Myrt and Marge") Vail -- Evelyn Venable -- King Vidor -- Jerry Voorhis -- Marie Wilson -- Tony Zale -- Vera Zorina -- More info

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