Dropped names : famous men and women as I knew them / Frank Langella.

Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight in a small Mexican village; Elizabeth Taylor devouring homemade pasta and tenderly wrapping him in her pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to s...

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Main Author: Langella, Frank
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xii, 356 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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