Barry Paris - Bibliography

View Larger
Image

Barry Paris; Anna Fields

More About this Book

View Larger
Image

Audrey Hepburn

Barry Paris

The richly detailed and highly revealing biography of a genuine screen legend who was adored throughout the world. With unprecedented access to family and friends, never-before-published photographs, and meticulous research, biographer Barry Paris gives us a vibrant new portrait of Hepburn.

More About this Book

Other editions: Softcover - 2001

View Larger
Image

Song of Haiti: The Lives of Dr. Larimer and Gwen Mellon at Albert Schweitzer Hospital of Deschapelles

Barry Paris

Paris tells the story of Larry and Gwen Mellon and the passion that inspired them to leave behind a world of almost unfathomable luxury to devote their lives to the practice of medicine amongst the poorest of the poor. of photos.

More About this Book

View Larger
Image

Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov

Barry Paris; Stella Adler

In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the work of Henrik Ibsen ("The crea-tion of the modern theater took a genius like Ibsen...Miller and Odets, Inge and O'Neill, Williams and Shaw, swallowed the whole of him"), August Strindberg ("He understood and predicted the forces that would break in our lives"), and Anton Chekhov ("Chekhov doesn't want a play, he wants what happens in life. In life, people don't usually kill each other. They talk").Through the plays of these masters, Adler discusses the arts of playwriting and script interpretation ("There are two aspects of the theater. One belongs to the author and the other to the actor. The actor thinks it all belongs to the author...The curtain goes up and all he knows are the lines...It is not enough...Script interpretation is your profession").She looks into aspects of society and class, and into our cultural past, as well as the evolution of the modern spirit ("The actor learns from Ibsen what is modern in the modern theater. There are no villains, no heroes. Ibsen understands, more than anything, there is more than one truth").Stella Adler--daughter of Jacob Adler, who was universally acknowledged to be the greatest actor of the Yiddish theater, and herself a disciple of Stanislavsky--examines the role of the actor and brings to life the plays from which all modern theater derives: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, An Enemy of the People, and A Doll's House; Strindberg's Miss Julie and The Father; Chekhov's The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, and Three Sisters ("Masha is the sister who is the mystery. You cannot reach her. You cannot reach the artist. There is no logical way. Keep her in a special pocket of feelings that are complex and different"). Adler discusses the ideas behind these plays and explores the world of the playwrights and the history--both familial and cultural--that informed their work. She illumines not only the dramatic essence of each play but its subtext as well, continually asking questions that deepen one's understanding of the work and of the human spirit. Adler's book, brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, puts her famous lectures into print for the first time.

More About this Book

View Larger
Image

Garbo: A Biography

Barry Paris

Drawing in hitherto unavailable material, including Garbo's notebooks, letters and an astonishing set of 100 tape-recorded conversations, plus interviews with her surviving fiends and family in Sweden and America, Barry Paris makes the reader suddenly aware of the unknown human being behind the legend. Paris's exploration of her "lost" decades supplants the notion of Garbo "the enigma" with the real and complicated woman.65 photos.

More About this Book

Other editions: 1995

Tony Curtis: The Autobiography

Barry Paris; Tony Curtis

More About this Book

Louise Brooks

Barry Paris

Through unique access to her diaries and letters, the author takes the reader beyond the icon to the sexual and psychological truth of "the girl in the black helmet," and shows why she is now both a legend and a cult figure.127 b&w photos and drawings.

More About this Book

Other editions: Hardcover - 1989