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Jan 22, 2008 · Books. Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power. Virginia Rounding. Macmillan, Jan 22, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 592 pages. From the acclaimed author of Grandes Horizontales comes a book that the Washington Post calls "a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman." Dutiful daughter, passionate lover, doting grandmother ...
The great lover Bookreader Item Preview ... Intrigued, she watched as Rupert skilfully managed his male and female admirers, all of whom seemed to be in love with him ...
The Great Lover had been a play produced on Broadway by George M. Cohan and Sam Harris back during World War I years, but as the background is opera you will not hear a note of Cohan's in the story. As those early sound days also brought a glut of musical films MGM had Irene Dunne playing a young opera ingenue who falls under the spell of womanizing opera star Adolph Menjou.
Jun 25, 2024 · Rudolph Valentino (born May 6, 1895, Castellaneta, Italy—died August 23, 1926, New York, New York, U.S.) was an Italian-born American actor who was idolized as the “Great Lover” of the 1920s silent era of film. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) When Guglielmi was 11, his father, a veterinarian, died from malaria.
Brief Synopsis. Read More. The French Surete and private eye Higgins are after a killer who uses innocent young Americans in a crooked gambling racket, and who sets sail on an ocean liner that also carries inept scoutmaster Freddie Hunter and his troop of boys. Freddie, who's been a "boy scout" too long, has designs on gorgeous Duchess Alexandria.
"The Great Lover" has Bob Hope back in top form, tossing out funny one-liners against a backdrop of menace, a premise which worked well for his vein & cowardly comic character. As a scout master getting involved with the lovely Rhonda Fleming--and murder--Hope gets hilariously in way over his head on board a ship sailing across Europe.
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Jun 1, 2010 · “A brilliant, complicated man is the centre of Jill Dawson’s The Great Lover, and while she draws extensively on historical records of Brooke and his contemporaries, it is her decisions as a novelist that make this account of his life fascinating as well as faithful. . . . . The story that emerges is strong, satisfying, and memorable.”
