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Judy Holliday

Gary Carey

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Description:(The following overview was taken directly from the inside cover of the book jacket.)"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 career 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.But Holliday never wanted to be an actress. Throughout her career she was haunted by insecurities about her physical appearance and her talent. She never felt comfortable with the gossip and glamour of Hollywood, yet she managed to hold her own against its impersonal, sometimes vicious, ways.The daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Holliday grew up amid the intellectual and political ferment of the Twenties and Thirties. She remained politically conscious throughout her life and was interrogated and blacklisted as a Communist sympathizer during the Hollywood witch-hunts in the Fifties.Holliday sought little more than a life of stability and quiet intelligence. And yet she was never able to fully extricate herself from a complicated web of relationships that included an overprotective mother, an early lesbian lover, and a number of unsuccessful alliances--a failed marriage to clarinetist David Oppenheim, liaisons with Nicholas Ray and Peter Lawford; a passionate interlude with Sydney Chaplin, her handsome leading man in The Bells Are Ringing; and a final, poignant affair with jazz musician Gerry Mulligan.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 many other difficulties in her life--had a quality of tragedy and triumph that seemed to be Holliday's hallmark."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Judy Holliday. To get started finding Judy Holliday, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: (The following overview was taken directly from the inside cover of the book jacket.)"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 career 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.But Holliday never wanted to be an actress. Throughout her career she was haunted by insecurities about her physical appearance and her talent. She never felt comfortable with the gossip and glamour of Hollywood, yet she managed to hold her own against its impersonal, sometimes vicious, ways.The daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Holliday grew up amid the intellectual and political ferment of the Twenties and Thirties. She remained politically conscious throughout her life and was interrogated and blacklisted as a Communist sympathizer during the Hollywood witch-hunts in the Fifties.Holliday sought little more than a life of stability and quiet intelligence. And yet she was never able to fully extricate herself from a complicated web of relationships that included an overprotective mother, an early lesbian lover, and a number of unsuccessful alliances--a failed marriage to clarinetist David Oppenheim, liaisons with Nicholas Ray and Peter Lawford; a passionate interlude with Sydney Chaplin, her handsome leading man in The Bells Are Ringing; and a final, poignant affair with jazz musician Gerry Mulligan.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 many other difficulties in her life--had a quality of tragedy and triumph that seemed to be Holliday's hallmark."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Judy Holliday. To get started finding Judy Holliday, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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