Anschaffungsvorschläge für Booth, Shirley

By: Federal Publishing Company, Pub. 1905, reprinted 2022. 404 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-077-0.This book contains nothing but biographies' of person from the following counties of KENTUCKY: Boone, Gallatin, Grant, Owen, Henry, Trimble, Oldham, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer, Bullitt Hardin, Meade, Breckenridge, Hancock, Ohio, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Livingston, Union, Caldwell, McCracken, Hickman, Graves, and Calloway; counties of INDIANA: Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland, Jefferson, Jennings, Clark, Scott, Washington, Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Orange, Perry, Dubois, Spencer, Pike, Gibson, Posey, Warrick, and Vanderburgh; counties of ILLINOIS: Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, and Union. These biographies' will include such things as: birthplace and date, occupation, education, military service, land holdings, name and birth date of wife, date and place of marriage, names of children and birthdates, marriages of children, names and dates of death of parents and their former residence, names of biographies' siblings and other items of interest. Names of biographies': Adams (2), Ahman, Ahrens, Akers, Alford, Anderson (3), Annis, Archibald, Badger, Bardes, Barker, Barnard, Barth, Baschang, Bauer, Bax, Beinkamp, Berry (2), Bitz, Bohne, Boluss, Bond (3), Bonser, Booth, Bosworth, Bourland, Bowton, Breed, Brewer, Brill, Brimson, Brisby, Brock, Brown (2), Bruce, Bulthaup, Buttorff, Campbell, Cannon, Cardwill, Carney, Carroll, Cash, Cisco, Clark, Cluse, Clegg, Cochran, Coffey, Coghill, Cole, Coll, Collins (2), Colt, Columbia, Comstock, Conaway, Connor, Contri, Conway (3), Coolman, Corson, Cottingham (2), Coulter, Cowen (2), Cox, Cragg, Daily, Daniel, Dant, Darling, Daughters, Davies, Davis, Day, Deatherage, Denny, Devous, Deweese, Dilger, Dimick, Doherty, Drake, Duck, Durr, Durrett, Edwards, Elder, Ellis (2), Ellspermann, Emmert, Enslinger (2), Faller, Fegenbush, Fisher, Fitch, Fleischman. Fogle, Foster, Fox, Francisco, Frohock, Furnish, Gaines, Galbreath, Gardner, Gebhart, Gex, Gibson, Gordon, Gosney, Grabfelder, Graham, Grant, Graydon, Green (2), Greene, Griesbacher, Grimes, Grose, Habermel, Haines, Hanlon, Hargan, Hargitt, Harris (2), Harrison, Hartman, Hatch, Hegewald, Henderson, Henning, Heustis, Hickey, Hill, Hindman, Hite, Hoagland, Hoard, Hoffer, Holloway, Holtz, Holzhauer, Howard, Huddleston, Huelsmann, Ingalls, Isherwood, Jackson, Jacobs, Jahrries, Jaquith, Jenkins, Jett, Jeunesse, Johnson (2), Johnston, Kanzler, Keller, Kelly, Kerr, Kessler, Kevekordes, Kinstler, Koch (2), Kolker, Kopp, Kramer, Kraft, Kratz, Krementz, Laughlin, Laut (2), Leap, Lee, Lehmann, Lemmon, Leopold, Libbert, Little (2), Logan (2), Logsdon, Lohstroh, Lovell, Lutz, Lyon, McArthur, McCallister, McGhee, McIntire, McIntyre, McKinley, McLean, Maag, Manus, Marshall (2), Mattison, Mayfield, Meddis, Meek, Melish, Meyer, Miller (2), Mobley, Monfort, Montgomery, Morris (2), Moser, Muench, Mundt, Myerhoff, Nevitt, Newman, Niebaum, Niklaus, North (2), Nowlin (3), Nye, Obrien, Oertel, Osborn, Ott, Owen, Parker, Parks, Parsons, Patterson, Peak, Pentland, Perkins, Pernett, Perry, Pfender, Poole, Poschinger, Posey, Powell, Prosser, Protsman, Puls, Ralston, Ransdell, Rauschenbach, Rechtin, Rickwood, Rider, Riedel (2), Roberts (2), Rogers, Rohrman, Rose, Rowlett, Ruby, Ruehrwein, Rump, Ruston, Saunders, Scarborough, Schaefer, Schenck, Schroeder (2), Schwab, Schwan, Schwartz, Scott (2), Searcy (2), Sebree, Shanks, Shaw (3), Sherlock, Sheriff, Shirley, Shoemaker, Shopbell, Shrader (2), Shutt, Shutts, Sink, Slider, Smith (5), Spaeth, Spencer, Spivey, Stahlhefer, Stanley, Stark, Stoner, Stoy (3), Strunk, Sulzer, Sutton (2), Swales, Swearingen, Varner (2), Vernia, Vinyard, Waite, Waldo, Wall, Walter, Waltz, Warder, Wartmann, Webber, White, Whitney, Wilcox, Wilder, Wilkins, Wilkinson, Wilks, Winders, Winterberger, Wooley, Wright (3), Wulber, Wymond, Young (2), and Zollman.

"Kim Powers's haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold and Fannie Flagg." -STARRED Review, Shelf AwarenessIt's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in, movies-James Bond, My Fair Lady, Alfie, and Dr. Zhivago-feed the dreams and obsessions of a ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey, Elvis, his family, and the handsome boy in the projector booth. Then Clarke loses his beloved mother, and no one will tell him how she died. No one will tell her either. She is floating above the trees and movie screens of McKinney, trapped between life and death, searching for a glimpse of her final moments on this earth. Clarke must find the shattering truth, which haunts this darkly humorous and incredibly moving novel.

Shirley Booth-Byerly has been addicted to the study of genealogy since childhood; she loves the never-ending battle of discovering subtle links, possibilities, impossibilities, and misconceptions. In God, Ghosts, and Grannies, she tells the story of her family-where they came from and how they settled in South Alabama and Northwest Florida. Telling the events as literary nonfiction and taking genealogy to a new level, her story shares insights from six generations, six unique individuals, each viewing life from slightly skewed, rose-colored glasses. Shirley melds humor, drama, and a living experience with research, resources, and revelations. Gods, Ghosts, and Grannies narrates a story of people's lives, their hopes, their dreams, and the realities they faced while struggling, working, and tending their homes; the same homes that convey tranquil memories, laughter, sunshine, and contentment-memories forever gone when no one is left to tell the stories or no one cares to listen.

Leona Samish a single American woman of a "certain age" takes a long-planned European vacation from her job as a secretary and finds herself in a pensione in Venice Italy. At a street market she meets the handsome proprietor Renato DiRossi entering into a casual flirtation which turns into an affair. Her complacency is jolted when she discovers he is married has several children and is quite happy with the arrangement as is. Long-dormant frustrations and anger come to the surface as Leona faces the harsh reality of this new found infatuation and her own romantic notions of love. Shirley Booth and later Katharine Hepburn ("Summertime") played the leading role.

The Vanished World of Robert Youngson examines the life of the forgotten producer and writer who got his start making short subject films. His later features revived audience and critical interest in the 1920s silent film comedians, particularly Laurel and Hardy. These compilations celebrate the world he knew as a child with a nostalgic yearning for a bygone era. Nonetheless, there is an inescapable sadness, particularly at the close of each film, as his narrator expresses how "the laugh makers and thrill makers… have vanished, leaving behind no successors but only moving shadows." Besides candid memories from his wife Jeanne, this study incorporates the only known print interview that Bob gave with a young Leonard Maltin just three years before his death in 1974 at the age of 56. Film historian Jim Manago has authored biographies of Shirley Booth, Kay Aldridge, Gale Gordon, Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey. He hopes to bring to readers the first biography of Jonathan Harris, best known as Dr. Smith on Lost in Space.

"I guess…he would want the public to remember his malaprops. He was proud of the fact that he studied words intensely so he could easily ad lib malaprops and the fact that even though he only had a high school diploma, he was well read and extremely articulate." - Brandy Gorcey Ziesemer on her dad This is a book celebrating the overlooked contributions to filmdom made by Leo Gorcey, a truly enigmatic man, whose life ended prematurely in 1969. Brandy offers thoughts about her dad as well as her unpublished graduate school thesis which unravels his "Split Personality." So often, excessive drinking left him "fractured," but his intense study of "Word Power" provided him with the comedic opportunities to "fracture" his characters' speech. Leo Gorcey's fine talent for making us laugh by twisting language finally receives the attention it deserves as the author offers an extensive catalog of many of his fancy and misused words as found in his Bowery Boys films. Jim Manago holds a Master's degree in Cinema Studies from The College of Staten Island (CUNY). He has authored first biographies on Gale Gordon, Kay Aldridge, Huntz Hall and two biographies on Shirley Booth. His forthcoming publications include one on producer Robert Youngson, and another on Al St. John's comedy offered in PRC's Billy The Kid series from the 1940s.

This is the HARDBACK version. Gale Gordon, one of America's favorite actors with numerous radio, television, stage, and films to his credit, possessed impeccable comic timing and a unique voice that made him one of the busiest and most productive talents of the twentieth century. Today, we remember him best as Osgood Conklin on Our Miss Brooks (1952-1956), the landlord Mr. Heckendorn on Make Room for Daddy (1959-1961), Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace (1962-1963), and as Theodore J. Mooney on The Lucy Show (1962-1968), Harrison Carter on Here's Lucy (1968-1974), and Curtis McGibbon on Life With Lucy (1986). Gale also skillfully played dozens of characters on Old Time Radio, such as Mayor La Trivia and Foggy Williams on Fibber McGee and Molly, and Rumson Bullard on that show's successful spinoff, The Great Gildersleeve. He was also the first actor to play the role of Flash Gordon, in the 1935 radio serial, The Amazing Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon. At last, Jim Manago has brought Gale's life and career back into the spotlight with a handsomely examined biography that features a complete survey of his credits, emphasizing over twenty years of his radio work, where he developed his comedic abilities. Discover his little-known personal life, including his duties as the Honorary Mayor of Borrego Springs, California, and the desert ranch where he lived in tranquility away from the spotlight. Illustrated. Featuring transcribed excerpts from Fibber McGee and Molly and The Great Gildersleeve. "In character, Gale Gordon does something nobody else can do. He just stands there, not saying or doing anything, and all of a sudden he's the balloon that makes you want to reach for the pin."- Bob Sweeney in TV Guide ". . . Oh yes, yes, I'm one of those spoiled creatures of our modern mania. I expect comfort, serenity, beauty, privacy, modern conveniences, and of course a sound investment. And that's rather hard to achieve. But I really believe I have found the answer to all of my desires, here in this valley. I first saw it some thirty years ago. Considered myself a pioneer. Today I one of the fortunate ones lucky enough to escape the tensions of big city life and live in peace and comfort - here."-Gale Gordon speaking on A New Way of Life About the author: Jim Manago has authored The Thrills Gone By: The Kay Aldridge Story (2016), Behind Sach: The Huntz Hall Story (2015), and Love is the Reason for It All: The Shirley Booth Story (2008) for BearManor Media, and he also self-published For Bill, His Pinup Girl: The Shirley Booth & Bill Baker Story (2010).

"Julia's book will make you both laugh and cry. It's filled with wonderful insights about what Hollywood was like for a child actor who started working professionally when she was 6 and continued right on into adulthood. Julia was talented enough to be hand-picked by Shirley Booth to play Susie Baxter in the fifth and final season of Hazel. Her successful career continued into her young adult years. But then something tragic happened to Julia that would change her life forever. Her whole story is here - the good, the bad, the terrifying, and the eventual recovery. Julia Benjamin is a survivor, and now for the first time, she shares her life with everyone in one of the most emotional books ever written." Stu Shostak, TV Historian "I first met Julia Benjamin at Columbia Pictures when she signed on to the popular Hazel television series. She was, then and now, adorable. When A Minor Consideration started up in the early 90's Julia came back into my life as she began her courageous recovery from a vicious dog attack on Valentine's Day. Julia's will to bravely face Life's ups and downs is remarkable." Paul Petersen

This is the HARDBACK version. "And they are reading sociological significance into my performances . . . I was a brave, independent woman in the forest, frisking around . . . Of course, I was blithely unaware that I was a social statement. I was just a hungry actress." - Kay Aldridge on her Nyoka role, New York Times ". . . six beauties, but the only one who stood out was Kay Aldridge, who had a funny little way of winking her eyes and crinking her nose. They liked Kay for that." - On the Navy Blues Sextette, Los Angeles Times The Thrills Gone By: The Kay Aldridge Story presents the life of the photogenic and most-photographed cover girl, model, Hollywood starlet and Serial Queen who has been forgotten today, except for her iconic role in the Republic serial, Perils of Nyoka. Her story is one of unrealized potential. No, she did not become a major star in Hollywood, and sadly so, perhaps simply because she never overcame the limits of being so photogenic and so heart-stoppingly beautiful in person. Kay Aldridge is portrayed here experiencing nine years of thrills gone by. Her ultimate failure to make superstar status puts the familiar and oft-told Hollywood success stories in perspective. This biography is based on material from Aldridge's original scrapbooks as reassembled and annotated by her daughter as well as inclusion of every major newspaper article written about her. It offers a respectful portrait and appreciation of Aldridge's personal life and includes a brief examination of the thrilling moments from her three serials. Jim Manago has authored the first biography of Huntz Hall and two biographies on Shirley Booth. He holds a Master's degree in Cinema Studies from the College of Staten Island/City University of New York.

This is the hardback edition. "Your father is the American Chaplin." - Groucho Marx (speaking to Gary Hall) "Huntz Hall was a complicated person: extremely generous and loving on the one hand, scarily angry and violent on the other....As I get older I understand my father much better-he was emotionally deprived as a kid, and then he was unprepared for fame and money when they arrived in his teenage years. So he didn't have the skills to be a parent. He did the best he could with the emotional equipment he had." - Rev. Gary Hall (Huntz Hall's son) "I was nuts...Actually, I got into worse trouble than Sach...The cops would say to me, 'We don't want to lock you up, Huntz. You lock yourself up.' I'm lucky that I made it this far." - Huntz Hall, Entertainment Weekly interview "Huntz Hall, I loved him. [He] kept us laughing all the time. He was so funny." - Julie Gibson, actress, Bowery Buckaroos Behind Sach: The Huntz Hall Story presents the life of the man who made us laugh with his unforgettable and unique persona of Horace DeBussy Jones, best known as "Sach." This is the story of Huntz Hall, who played the zany character in forty-eight Bowery Boys motion pictures from the 1946 thru 1958. Perhaps some day Hall will be lauded as surely a comic genius as Chaplin. This biography is based upon never before revealed information provided by his only son. It offers a respectful portrait and appreciation of Hall's personal life and an examination of the comedy moments of his beloved Sach. Jim Manago has authored Love Is the Reason for It All: The Shirley Booth Story (BearManor Media, 2008) and For Bill, His Pinup Girl: The Shirley Booth and Bill Baker Story (Jim and Donna Manago Books, 2010). He holds a Master's degree in Cinema Studies from the College of Staten Island/City University of New York.