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    I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses
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    I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses
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    I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses

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    About this audiobook

    Film and television actor and New York Times bestselling author Robert Wagner's memoir of the great women movie stars he has known.

    In a career that has spanned more than sixty years Robert Wagner has witnessed the twilight of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the rise of television, becoming a beloved star in both media. During that time he became acquainted, both professionally and socially, with the remarkable women who were the greatest screen personalities of their day. I Loved Her in the Movies is his intimate and revealing account of the charisma of these women on film, why they became stars, and how their specific emotional and dramatic chemistries affected the choices they made as actresses as well as the choices they made as women.

    Among Wagner's subjects are Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Swanson, Norma Shearer, Loretta Young, Joan Blondell, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Dorothy Lamour, Debra Paget, Jean Peters, Linda Darnell, Betty Hutton, Raquel Welch, Glenn Close, and the two actresses whom he ultimately married, Natalie Wood and Jill St. John. In addition to offering perceptive commentary on these women, Wagner also examines topics such as the strange alchemy of the camera-how it can transform the attractive into the stunning, and vice versa-and how the introduction of color brought a new erotic charge to movies, one that enabled these actresses to become aggressively sexual beings in a way that that black and white films had only hinted at.

    Like Wagner's two previous bestsellers, I Loved Her in the Movies is a privileged look behind the scenes at some of the most well-known women in show business as well as an insightful look at the sexual and romantic attraction that created their magic.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 15, 2016
    ISBN9781524703349
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    • 2/5
      Robert Wagner loves women, and that love shines in his novel about the movie icons of yesteryear. Wagner brings in many fascinating tidbits about each of the actresses, but his style cuts the flow of the story. Many times, I flounder when reading, and wonder which actress Wagner is describing. I learned many lessons while reading the story, and the most important is that becoming an actress in the early days of the cinema was not for the feeble. Wagner brings a humanity and a vulnerability to the actresses.
    • 3/5
      Wagner comments on various actresses with the chapters divided by decades. He spends his time on the beautiful ones and only includes Thelma Ritter as a character actress. However, he also leaves out several popular beauties like Betty Grable, Hedy Lamarr, Grace Kelly, Julie Christie, and others. There were no actresses of color mentioned like the beautiful Dorothy Dandridge. There was a spelling error on page 42 where Marion Davies was spelled as Marian Davies.
    • 4/5
      A trip down memory lane. Not that I'm old enough to have been alive when many of these ladies were at the height of their career, but it did trigger memories of a very important time in my life. When I was a preteens and young teen, my younger sister and myself spent nearly every weekend with my grandparents, they spoiled us shamelessly, not so much with things but with their undivided attention and love. Every Saturday, late afternoon my younger sister and grandmother would go to one of my aunts houses to play cards or bunco. I stayed home with my grandfather, by choice, and we would watch the oldies on the television. Remember falling in love with Gene Tierney, Carol Baker and others, my grandfather had a major crush on Maureen O'Hara. Wonderful times.Love the way this book is divided by decades, what actresses had the most pull in those particular years. Where they came from, what movies they were in, how they were perceived in Hollywood. Robert Wagner, now in his eighties, dated some,, acted with others and of course married a few. While reading this I wondered how he would handle his life with Natalie Wood, never knew they actually married twice. He does address his marriage, her personality but only in a few pages. Her death he addresses not at all, but in fairness this was a book about these amazing women and what they accomplished. So many things I never knew, including the fact that Gene Tierney had a very sad life. Hollywood today does not have the cache of the old Hollywood. There was so much glamour though to be fair these actresses in this book did many of the same things that are done today but now everything is so much more public, social media and all, that the old mystique is gone. There was no such thing as reality TV stars, think of a world without the Kardashians, if only we could. Anyway, I gulped this one right down and enjoyed every single minute.