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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Contributor(s): Turner, Peter (Author)

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 ISBN: 1250136857     ISBN-13: 9781250136855
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2016058282
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.4" L (0.31 lbs) 176 pages
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Shelf Awareness 06/02/2017
 
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Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, and Vanessa Redgrave

Chosen as one of the Top Memoirs of the year by The New York Times

The Golden Age of Hollywood, a young British actor, a love affair, and a tragedy, Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool is Peter Turner's touching memoir of the last days of Hollywood icon Gloria Grahame, the Oscar-winner best known for her portrayal of irresistible femme fatales in films such as The Big Heat, Oklahoma and The Bad and the Beautiful.

The Hollywood Reporter calls the film adaptation a tender, affecting romantic drama.

On September 29, 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 took her into his chaotic and often eccentric family's home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour of need.

Taking place over the course of three weeks in Turner's larger-than-life working-class family home, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is an affectionate, moving, and wryly humorous memoir of friendship, love, and stardom.

Contributor Bio(s): Turner, Peter: - PETER TURNER was born in Liverpool in 1952 the youngest of nine children. He was educated at a local comprehensive school and started acting at the age of sixteen with The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He worked extensively in British theatre both in London and the regions. He played Terry Adams in three seasons of the hit television drama series Spearhead and his film parts included playing Trinculo in Derek Jarman's version of Shakespeare's The Tempest. He met the Academy Award-winning American film star Gloria Grahame in London in 1978. They became lovers and their relationship lasted until the end of her life, dying from cancer in 1981. He wrote his memoir Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool in 1984. Peter has also written screenplays and devised and written scripts, British television, plays, and serials.
 
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