39 Results for : bankhead
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Redeeming Features: A Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 919min
With Redeeming Features, set mainly in New York, London, Arizona, and various parts of Europe, British designer Nicholas Haslam has written, with great charm and passion, a completely engaging memoir about pretty much everyone you have ever heard of anywhere in the 20th and 21st centuries. Like a "WASP Zelig", from the 1950s until 2008, the frenetically social and ebullient Haslam has managed, according to Vanity Fair, to "pop up from decade to decade alongside some of the most fascinating people in our cultural history." Now a successful designer with clients from Moscow to Marrakesh, in the 1950s, fresh out of art school, he started learning at the knees of such aristocratic bohemians as Lady Diana Cooper and photographer, designer, and diarist Cecil Beaton. Of course he also came across Chips Channon, actress Tilly Losch, designer Oliver Messel, and photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. Haslam is a brilliant mimic with a great eye, so aside from revealing people's speech eccentricities, he gives you a perfect description of a room where a given social gathering is taking place. In the 60s he was working at various English newspapers and British Vogue before going to New York with British photographer David Bailey (Antonioni's Blow-Up was about Bailey) and model Jean Shrimpton. There he worked for the art director at American Vogue in the days of Diana Vreeland, and Haslam gives a lively rundown on that office and its editors. In non-working hours he was hanging out with Djuna Barnes and Cole Porter, Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Crawford and Jane Russell, with Dorothy Parker, ballet star Edward Villella, and John Richardson. By 1963 Haslam was art director of Huntington Hartford's magazine Show, spent time at the Factory, and starred in the Warhol film, Kiss, with Baby Jane Holzer. He was beginning to decorate and continued when, in 1966, he bought a ranch near ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001069/bk_acx0_001069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Marriage Plot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 923min
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.” Anthony Trollope. It’s the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead – charismatic loner and college Darwinist – suddenly turns up in a seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus – who’s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange – resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they have learned. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology laboratory on Cape Cod, but can’t escape the secret responsible for Leonard’s seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love. Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pittu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000936/bk_hcuk_000936_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Marriage Plot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 930min
It’s the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine tries to understand why “it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in 18th-century France,” real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead—charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy—suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old “friend” Mitchell Grammaticus—who’s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange—resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology Laboratory on Cape Cod, but can’t escape the secret responsible for Leonard’s seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love. Are the great love stories of the 19th century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Pittu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001297/bk_aren_001297_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Garden on Sunset: Garden of Allah, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
Right before talking pictures slug Tinsel Town in the jaw, a luminous silent screen star converts her private estate into the Garden of Allah Hotel. The lush grounds soon become a haven for Hollywood hopefuls to meet, drink, and revel through the night. George Cukor is in the pool, Tallulah Bankhead is at the bar, and Scott Fitzgerald is sneaking off to a bungalow with Sheilah Graham while Madame Alla Nazimova keeps watch behind her lace curtains. But the real story of the Garden of Allah begins with its first few residents, three kids on the brink of something big. Marcus Adler has a lot to prove after his father catches him and the police chief's son with their pants down. He flees Pennsylvania for Hollywood with his mouth shut and his eyes open, and begins to write the lines all those starlets will say out loud. Can a smart, sensitive guy find his own voice in a town that's just learning to talk? Kathryn Massey's childhood was a grinding routine of auditions, but she couldn't care less about being a movie star. When she takes off with her typewriter, determined to become a newspaper reporter, she finds that breaking into the boys' club is tougher than breaking free of her bossy mother. To make it in this town, she'll need some serious moxie. Gwendolyn Brick is a sweet Southern beauty who's come a long way to try her luck on the big screen. She's hoping the same succulent lips the guys want to kiss will land her more than a bit part on a casting couch. She's going to need some help keeping everyone in line. Nobody gets a free pass in Hollywood, but a room at the Garden on Sunset can get your foot in the door. The Garden on Sunset is the first in Martin Turnbull's series of historical novels set during Hollywood's golden age. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John C. Zak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/005444/bk_acx0_005444_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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John Bankhead Magruder
John Bankhead Magruder - A Military Reappraisal: ab 24.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Fanatic (aka Die! Die! My Darling!)
Directed by Silvio Narizzano (Georgy Girl), Fanatic, also known as Die! Die! My Darling, stars Hollywood great Tallulah Bankhead in her final film performance. She stars as the psychotic religious zealot Mrs Trefoile, who terrorises and imprisons her dead son's fiancée Patricia (Stefanie Powers) and is determined to 'cleanse' her soul... With a supporting cast that includes the ever-excellent Yootha Joyce, Peter Vaughn and a young Donald Sutherland in one of his earliest screen roles, Fanatic is a rich and disturbing thriller, powered by a superb Richard Matheson script and a power-house performance from the legendary Bankhead. Region free- Shop: odax
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Batman: The Second Season Part Two
Greetings, Citizens! With perfectly pitched scripts and the iconic high-camp cleverness of ''POW!,'' ''Thwack!'' and ''Zap!'' graphics, Batman leapt off the pages of the comics and into our living rooms to become one of the biggest hits in television history. These final 30 episodes of the Second Season will bring more rollicking and mysterious mayhem designed to defeat our Caped Crusaders! With felonious foes lined up for revenge, like the venomous Black Widow, chilling Mr. Freeze and cagey Penguin, Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) must match wits with the wiliest. Sit back and tune into the double-crosses and conundrums that confound our calm, cool and be-cowled crime fighters. Now completely remastered, all the originality, crime-fighting action and arch-villainy of special guest stars like Tallulah Bankhead, Victor Buono and Eli Wallach are on DVD in pristine splendor like never before - for those who were there, and for a new generation of Bat-fans!- Shop: odax
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The Daydreamer
The early life of 19th-century Danish fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen is shown in this delightful Rankin-Bass fantasy, with stop-motion animated sequences depicting his dreams of such stories as "The Little Mermaid," "The Ugly Duckling," "Thumbelina," and "The Emperor's New Clothes." Paul O'Keefe, Jack Gilford, and Margaret Hamilton star, Tallulah Bankhead, Patty Duke, Boris Karloff, Hayley Mills, and Terry-Thomas are among the voice talents. 99 min. Standard, Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono, Subtitles: English, audio commentary, theatrical trailers.- Shop: odax
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The Daydreamer
A Rankin/Bass Animagic Classic! Join young Hans Christian Andersen as he daydreams his way to adventure through his most famous fairytales. In The Little Mermaid, everyone's favorite girl of the sea (Hayley Mills) must triumph over the evil Sea Witch (Tallulah Bankhead) with a little help from Father Neptune (Burl Ives). In The Emperor's New Clothes, a pair of villainous tailors (Victor Borge and Terry-Thomas) create a surprising new outfit for a gullible king (Ed Wynn). The fun continues with Oscar-winner Patty Duke as Thumbelina, Ray Bolger as the Pieman, Boris Karloff as a sinister rat, Margaret Hamilton as the mean Mrs. Klopplebobbler and much more in this timeless kid's classic filmed in both live-action and 'Animagic' by Rankin/Bass, the creators of Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Wacky World of Mother Goose.- Shop: odax
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