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The Bennetts. An Acting Family.
Brian Kellow
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Description for The Bennetts. An Acting Family.
A chronicle of the Bennett family - of stage and screen. The saga begins with Richard Bennett, one of the bright lights of the New York stage during the early 20th century and his daughters Constance and Joan, both film stars, as well as Barbara, whose promising beginnings as a dancer gave way to a turbulent marriage and alcoholism. Num Pages: 520 pages, 54 photographs. BIC Classification: AN; APB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 40. Weight in Grams: 946.
The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen. The saga begins with Richard Bennett, a small-town Indiana roughneck who grew up to be one of the bright lights of the New York stage during the early twentieth century. In time, however, Richard's fame was eclipsed by that of his daughters, Constance and Joan, who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and found major success there. Constance became the highest-paid actress of the early 1930s, earning as much as $30,000 a week in melodramas. Later she reinvented herself as a comedienne ... Read more
The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen. The saga begins with Richard Bennett, a small-town Indiana roughneck who grew up to be one of the bright lights of the New York stage during the early twentieth century. In time, however, Richard's fame was eclipsed by that of his daughters, Constance and Joan, who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and found major success there. Constance became the highest-paid actress of the early 1930s, earning as much as $30,000 a week in melodramas. Later she reinvented herself as a comedienne ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813123295
SKU
V9780813123295
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About Brian Kellow
Brian Kellow, features editor of Opera News magazine, is the coauthor of Can't Help Singing: The Life of Eileen Farrell. He lives in New York and Connecticut.
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