Nazimova: A Biography
Gavin Lambert
She was the only actress, other than Mae West, to become a movie star at forty, and was the first to cultivate the image of the "foreign" sophisticate, soon to be followed by Pola Negri, Greta Garbo, and Marlene Dietrich.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Knopf
- Year
- 1997
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Hollywood actressSilent film eraStardom and fame
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyShortlisted(1997)
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