Word: korda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, Andrew Birkin ∙Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙W.H. Auden, Charles Osborne ∙White House Years, Henry Kissinger
...Heights and The Scarlet Pimpernel; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Oberon was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson on the island of Tasmania. Educated in India, she left for England in 1928, worked as an extra and dance hostess until she met and married Film Producer Alexander Korda. Her 1933 portrayal of Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII made her a star. Divorcing Korda in 1945, she went on to play such Hollywood roles as George Sand in A Song to Remember and Josephine opposite Marlon Brando's Napoleon in Desir...
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙ Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙ The White Album, Joan Didion ∙ W.H. Auden, Charles Osborne ∙ Zebra, Clark Howard
NONFICTION: African Calliope, Edward Hoagland Charmed Lives, Michael Korda Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe The White Album, Joan Didion Zebra, Clark Howard
Maybe Alexander Korda was careless about ordering his affairs because he had witnessed so many of the century's upheavals. Maybe it was the strong under current of melancholy in his temperament that caused him to regard all permanencies as delusions. Whatever. Michael Korda 's title is apt, and he has fashioned from his uncle's life, and from his own struggle not to become a pale copy of him, a book that is rather like one of his uncle's historical films-warm, well structured, humorous, a little larger and more roman tic than life...