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100 1 $aLambert, Gavin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50039917
245 10 $aNazimova :$ba biography /$cGavin Lambert.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c1997.
300 $a420 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aA major rediscovery - a full-scale biography - of the electrifying Russian-born actress who brought Stanislavksy and Chekhov to American theatre, who was applauded, lionized, adored - a legend of the stage and screen for forty years, and then strangely forgotten.
520 8 $aHer shockingly natural approach to acting transformed the theatre of her day. She thrilled Laurette Taylor. The first time Tennessee Williams saw her he knew he wanted to be a playwright ("She was so shatteringly powerful that I couldn't stay in my seat"). Eugene O'Neill said of her that she gave him his "first conception of a modern theatre." She introduced the American stage and its audience to Ibsen's New Woman, a woman hell-bent on independence. It was a role Nazimova embodied offstage as well.
520 8 $aWhen she toured in a repertory of A Doll's House, The Master Builder, and Hedda Gabler from 1907 to 1910, she earned the then unheard-of sum of five million dollars for theatre manager Lee Shubert.
520 8 $aEight years later she went to Hollywood and signed a contract with Metro Pictures (before it was MGM) and became the highest-paid actress in silent pictures, ultimately writing, directing, and producing her own movies (Revelation, Stronger than Death, Billions, Salome). Four years later she formed her own film company.
520 8 $aShe 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.
520 8 $aGavin Lambert was given exclusive access to her unpublished memoirs, letters, and notes. And now fifty years after her death, eighty years after her ascendancy as a giant figure to the American public, Lambert has brilliantly re-created the life and work of this complex, dark, glamorous, and important figure.
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