Film stars don't die in Liverpool : a true story /
by Turner, Peter.
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BookPublisher: London : Pan Books, 2017Description: 144 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781509860425 (pbk.) :; 1509860428 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 791.4302 TURSubject(s): Grahame, Gloria -- Health | Turner, Peter, 1952- -- Friends and associates | Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsSummary: On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his chaotic and often eccentric family's home in Liverpool. Liverpool born and bred, Turner had first set eyes on Grahame when he was a young actor, living in London. Best known for her portrayal of irresistible femme fatales in films such as 'The Big Heat', 'Oklahoma' and 'The Bad and the Beautiful', for which she won an Oscar, Grahame electrified audiences with her steely expressions and heavy lidded eyes and the heroines she bought to life were often dark and dangerous. 'Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool' is an affectionate, moving and wryly humourous memoir of friendship, love, and stardom.
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| 791.4302 MON Marilyn Monroe: fragments poems, intimate notes, letters | 791.4302 SEL Hollywood hellraisers: | 791.4302 SEL Don't let the bastards grind you down: how one generation of British actors changed the world | 791.4302 TUR Film stars don't die in Liverpool : a true story / | 791.4302 TUR Film stars don't die in Liverpool : a true story / | 791.4302 WAT Role models | 791.4302 WIN Tales I never told |
Originally published: London: Chatto and Windus, 1986.
On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his chaotic and often eccentric family's home in Liverpool. Liverpool born and bred, Turner had first set eyes on Grahame when he was a young actor, living in London. Best known for her portrayal of irresistible femme fatales in films such as 'The Big Heat', 'Oklahoma' and 'The Bad and the Beautiful', for which she won an Oscar, Grahame electrified audiences with her steely expressions and heavy lidded eyes and the heroines she bought to life were often dark and dangerous. 'Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool' is an affectionate, moving and wryly humourous memoir of friendship, love, and stardom.
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