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Stefan Kanfer ha querido reunir en este libro los clásicos del sinsentido de Groucho fragmentos de sus libros y guiones cinematográficos, artículos escritos por él para las revistas The New Yorker o The Saturday Evening Post, entrevistas y artículos publicados por la prensa, improvisaciones exquisitas y bromas incontestables lanzadas durante el concurso televisivo You Bet Your Life Apueste su vida, además de parte de la correspondencia interca...

Brando was one of those rare artists whose work forever altered the landscape of his craft. Stefan Kanfer examines the evolution of Brandos singular genius against the background of his tumultuous personal life.

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Kanfer delivers the definitive biography of one of the great movie icons of the 20th century, and a wide-reaching appraisal of the actor's singular legacy. Through it all, Kanfer paints a background of the social and cultural context in which Bogart became, for all time, the one and only Bogie.

In Stardust Lost, Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life. Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibrant part of the immigrant experience. Kanfer invokes the energy, belief, and pure chutzpah it took to establish and run the thriving, influential theaters. He reveals the nightly drama and comedy that played out behind the scenes as well as onstage, a...

Stefan Kanfer is the author of a number of acclaimed books, including one on the history of animation, and a journalist writing for Time and The New York Times Book Review.

Manhattanites have always had a disdain for the rearview mirror. That's where trends begin, and the citizens of Gotham are concerned with the here and now rather than the then and there. Yet Manhattan's history is rich, filled with personalities who helped create the modern theater and made Broadway the center of show business-a distinction it still holds. The Voodoo That They Did So Well takes an endearing look at some of these giants. Stefan...

De Beers Consolidated Mines is fighting for its life. The most powerful and secretive cartel in the world faces diamond smuggling in Angola, disruption in Russia, and a world-wide recession. But this is not the first emergency De Beers has confronted in its long history of struggle and survival. In The Last Empire, Stefan Kanfer chronicles the nineteenth-century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beer's humble South African farmstead in...

Stefan Kanfer, acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal. Beginning with Brando's turbulent childhood, Kanfer follows him to New York where he made his star-making Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at age twenty-three. Brando then decamped for Hollywood, and K...

Brando was one of those rare artists whose work forever altered the landscape of his craft. Stefan Kanfer examines the evolution of Brandos singular genius against the background of his tumultuous personal life.

Brando was one of those rare artists whose work forever altered the landscape of his craft. Stefan Kanfer examines the evolution of Brandos singular genius against the background of his tumultuous personal life.

From the New York Times best-selling biographer of Groucho and Lucille Ball, comes a comprehensive portrait of one of the most influential actors of our time, Marlon Brando.

Humphrey Bogart: it's hard to think of anyone who's had the same lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at the young age of fifty-seven more than half a century ago, his influence among actors and filmmakers, and his enduring appeal for film lovers around the world, remains as strong as ever. What is it about Bogart, with his unconventional looks and noticeable speech impediment, that has captured our collective imagination fo...

First time in paperback: the behind-the-scenes story of the cartoon business from its silent-era beginnings to today's computer-generated animation--and how these 'toons reflect America's values and dreams.

For more than 50 years Lucille Ball has been television's most recognizable and beloved face. In this biography, author Stefan Kanfer goes beyond the icon to examine the difficult life and enduring work of the most influential woman in modern American comedy.

This definitive biography of one of the world's greatest comedians unflinchingly yet affectionately uncovers the man behind the cigar. Here is the amazing career of the man the world recognized as Groucho: the improbable disasters of the vaudeville years, the Marx Brothers, an act so funny W.C. Fields refused to follow it, the unprecedented Broadway success of The Cocoanuts" and Animal Crackers, the cinematic triumphs of Duck Soup and A Night ...

Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived. Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal movies, passages from his books, his articles for magazines ranging from "The New Yorker to the "Saturday Evening Post, the choicest ad-libs and quips from his long-running game show, "You Bet Your Life, and selected letters, including his classic correspondence with T. S. Eliot. It's all here-th...

In this comprehensive biography of one of the great movie icons of our time, Stefan Kanfer, the acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball, Groucho Marx, and Marlon Brando, illuminates the life and career of Humphrey Bogart. Along the way, Kanfer gives us a wide-reaching cultural appraisal of the movies many of us know and love as masterpieces of American cinema: The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, and countless others. He appraise...