About the Book

Ellis Amburn's magnificent biography of the Academy Award^®-winning actress and legendary beauty captures the unparalleled Elizabeth in all her tragedy and splendor—her tumultuous loves, her doomed affections, her shocking excesses, her courage, and her inimitable style. Filled with stunning revelations about the men in her life—Burton, Clift, Hilton, Dean, Fisher—it is a glorious celebration of the turbulent life of a brilliant star that none in Hollywood or heaven could ever outshine.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780062096920
• ISBN 10: 0062096923
• Imprint: Harper
• On Sale: 03/28/2011
• Pages: 592
• List Price:9.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : ART / Film & Video
• BISAC2 : PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
• BISAC3 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
• BISAC4 : PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General

Ellis Amburn

Biography

Ellis Amburn worked as a reporter-researcher at Newsweek before becoming a book editor at Putnam, where he edited Jack Kerouac, John Le Carre, William Golding, Edward Albee, and Paul Gallico. He was also editor-in-chief at Delacorte and William Morrow, and edited/collaborated on books by Shelley Winters, Sammy Davis, Jr., Lana Wood, and with Priscilla Presley on her #1 national bestseller Elvis and Me. Mr. Amburn is the author of The Sexiest Man Alive: A Biography of Warren Beatty; Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story; Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin; Buddy Holly; and Subterranean Kerouac.

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