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Aubrey Malone
Actresses who married their directors.
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Explore queer cinema over time with this comprehensive encyclopedia, helping readers understand films, directors, actors, themes, and other topics related to LGBTQ cinema history.
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Find out about Marlon Brando's funny side.
This is an account of the life of barnstorming author Ernest Hemingway. Aubrey Malone has immersed himself in recent research to discover what led the author through a tumultuous personal…
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Aubrey Malone was born in Ballina and lived there until his father, the well-known solicitor Hugh Dillon-Malone, retired in 1969 and the family moved to Dublin. Ballina Stories and Poems…
The complete story on Marilyn Monroe’s last film.
Aubrey Malone is the youngest of nine children born to Hugh Dillon-Malone, a solicitor from Ballina, a town in the West of Ireland, in 1953. In this detailed memoir he…
This reference helps readers navigate the perilous odyssey those of an LGBTQ orientation had to face in an age less enlightened than our own, when an attraction to members of…
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This book offers a history of films with Biblical, spiritual, and supernatural themes.
This new biography contains excerpts from interviews and articles by and about Curtis all the way from his teens in the Bronx to his death at 85 in 2010. Many…
Beginning with silent film vamp Theda Bara and continuing with icons like Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch, this study of film industry misogyny describes how female stars were…
Presents the first full-scale biography of Sidney Lumet, a man generally regarded as one of the most affable directors of his time. Using the oral testimonies of those who worked…
Scotland is famous for its sense of humour. This collection brings together quotes about Scotland and the Scots, as well as the sage wit and wisdom of some of its…
This intricate, highly detailed book also looks at the effect of the blacklist on the awarding of Oscars, and the various prejudices that saw many people excluded from the winner’s…
Writers and alcohol have long been associated - for some, the association becomes unmanageable. Drawing on rare sources, this collection of brief biographies traces the lives of 13 well known…
Biography of world famous poet Charles Bukowski
Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th century, are chronicled in this volume. The freewheeling…
Spanning no less than five generations, this is the story of a Midleton-born nurse who rises to the top of her profession in the 1960s before marriage to a carpet…
Brian Kilcoyne finds it difficult to cope with the death of his mother. His father is an alcoholic and he doesn’t get on with his brother. He leaves his farm…
This is the final part of Aubrey Malone’s Ballina trilogy. It sees him expanding his orbit from his native town to Dublin and foreign countries. What hasn’t changed is the…
‘We’re all losers in life in some way, ’ Aubrey Malone contends in this memoir, ‘but that’s what makes us interesting.’ It documents his college years in Ballina, County Mayo…
Aubrey Malone's memoir begins with him entering life as the youngest of nine children born to Hugh Dillon-Malone, a colourful solicitor, in Ballina in 1953. His life is a hubbub…
A farmer ends up in a wheelchair after a car crash that results in his wife's death. His son's relationship to him is complicated by a woman who comes into…
Many wise words are spoken in jest but many more stupid ones are said in earnest, as this book demonstrates. How about this comment on a football match from Cristiano…
Copiously illustrated both with stills from the film and candid shots of the stars between takes and off the set, this is the definitive study of Hollywood’s definitive western.
From George Bernard Shaw to Dara O'Briain, the very best of Irish wit
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Tired of receiving the same old advice from everyone you know? Anxious to change yourself in ways that will surprise even yourself? If so, you need to sample this riveting…
A novel and balanced assessment of one of the greatest stars of the silver screen.
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Maureen O'Hara is the first book-length biography of the screen legend hailed as the Queen of Technicolor.
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40? Feel old? Can’t do the things you once could do? Flab getting the better of you? Don’t worry! How to survive the big 40 gives you a fun yet…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
