Underfoot In Show Business

Author : Helene Hanff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underfoot in Show Business written by Helene Hanff and published by . This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of one of the thousands who have crashed Broadway hoping to land glamorous jobs describes her unsuccessful auditions, encounters with different producers and preoccupied agents, and the unique economic system she managed to survive by.

Author : Helene Hanff
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786256185
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underfoot In Show Business written by Helene Hanff and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her spirited, witty and vastly entertaining memoir, Helene Hanff recalls her ingenuous attempts to crash Broadway in the early forties as one of “the other 999.” Naive, nearsighted, frequently penniless but hopelessly stagestruck, she found her life governed by Flanagan’s Law: “No matter what happens to you, it’s unexpected.” Therefore, as a prize-winning Theatre Guild protégée with a brilliant future, Helene naturally found that all the producers who were going to produce her plays didn’t, and all the agents who were going to sell her plays couldn’t. Together with her best friend Maxine, an aspiring actress consigned to playing the comedy-ingénue in plays that regularly folded after five performances, she cultivated the “delicate, illegal art of getting everything for nothing”—from free seats to every Broadway show and neighborhood movie and borrowed outfits from Saks to voice lessons for Maxine and Greek lessons for Helene. To keep body and soul together until Broadway fame arrived, they devised an economic survival system that embraced such unlikely jobs as taking street-corner. Reviews — “Miss Hanff, having a good memory and a lively sense of humor, has composed a theater sketch that is realistic as well as hilarious....One of the most amusing recent theater books about the Broadway theater.”—Brooks Atkinson “A delightful book by an irrepressible author....What really lifts the book to a high level of entertainment is the sparkling humor. To describe the incidents wouldn’t do justice to the book’s charm which comes from the style of writing and Miss Hanff’s boundless optimism.”—Library Journal “A gay and entertaining book which also has substance.”—Boston Herald “Hilarious and highly successful. If you need cheering up, this is it. Here’s hoping Miss Hanff finds more failures to write books about.”—Columbus Dispatch

Author : Helene Hanff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140089365
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Q's Legacy written by Helene Hanff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-08-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q’s book, and, wanting to read all the books he recommended, began to order them from a small store in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Thus began a correspondence that became an enormously popular book, play, television production, and movie, and that finally led to the trip to England -- and a visit to Q’s study -- that she recounts in this exuberant memoir. Hanff pays her debt to her mentor and shares her joyous adventures with her many fans. "Reading Helene Hanff’s book is like making a new friend -- a charming, wise, and funny one." -- Betty Rollin "A potpourri . . . easy and assured . . . A delightful companion for the odd hour." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Hanff’s charm is such that when she exults . . . we exult right along with her." -- Kirkus Reviews

Author : Helene Hanff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140143505
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 84, Charing Cross Road written by Helene Hanff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those who have read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a novel comprised of only letters between the characters, will see how much that best-seller owes 84, Charing Cross Road." -- Medium.com A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books This funny, poignant, classic love story unfolds through a series of letters between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a charming, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Discover the relationship that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world, and was the basis for a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft.

Author : Helene Hanff
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006244204X
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street written by Helene Hanff and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in touch with mankind.” —New York Times Newly reissued with an introduction by Plum Sykes, this cult favorite is a delightful diary—think Nancy Mitford–meets–Nora Ephron—chronicling author Helene Hanff’s “bucket list” trip to London (at the age of fifty-five!) after the unexpected success of her memoir 84 Charing Cross Road. When she’s invited to London for the English publication of her wildly successful book, 84 Charing Cross Road—in which she shares two decades of correspondence with Frank Doel, a British bookseller who became a dear friend—New York writer Helene Hanff is thrilled to realize a lifelong dream. The trip will be bittersweet, because she can’t help wishing Frank was still alive, but she’s determined to capture every moment of the journey. Helene’s time in London exceeds her wildest expectations. She visits landmarks like Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle; explores Shakespeare’s favorite pub, Dickens’s house, and the Oxford University courtyard where John Donne used to walk; and makes a host of new friends from all walks of life, who take her to the theater, introduce her to institutions like Harrod’s, and share with her their favorite corners of countryside. A love letter to England and its literary heritage, written by a Manhattanite who isn’t afraid to speak her mind (or tell a British barman how to make a real American martini), The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street is an endearing account of two wildly different worlds colliding; it’s an outsider’s witty, vibrant portrait of idiosyncratic British culture at its best, as well as a profound commentary about the written word’s power to sustain us, transport us, and unite us.

Author : Helene Hanff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781919642147
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter from New York written by Helene Hanff and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helene Hanff
Publisher : Moyer Bell Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781559211444
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street written by Helene Hanff and published by Moyer Bell Limited. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends from 84, Charing Cross Road.

Author : Helene Hanff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780918825735
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apple of My Eye written by Helene Hanff and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A walking tour of New York from Battery Park to Harlem celebrates the architecture and history, landmarks, people, and pastimes of the Western world's most remarkable city.

Author : Robert Phillip Sharp
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878423620
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley written by Robert Phillip Sharp and published by Mountain Press Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern California boasts the greatest dryland relief in the contiguous United States, offering a rich variety of environments and spectacular geology. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and diagrams, Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley provides an on-the-ground look at the processes sculpting the terrain in this land of extremes for everyone interested in how the earth works.

Author : Ben Fisher
Publisher : Oni Press
ISBN 13 : 9781549302893
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Underfoot Vol. 1 written by Ben Fisher and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Ringo Award Nominee It has been untold years since the Giants-That-Were disappeared, leaving behind the animals forever changed by their strange science. Now, granted the gifts of intelligence and self-awareness, the valiant Hamster Aquatic Mercenaries struggle to keep their horde alive in the dangerous new world. In The Underfoot: The Mighty Deep, H.A.M. has been hired to save their badger allies from dangerous flooding, but first they’ll need new recruits. Only the best of the best can join the ranks of H.A.M., and the colony’s most ambitious young hamster pups compete for their chance at glory and prestige. Those who succeed, however, soon discover that life outside their burrow is not the grand adventure they imagined, but instead find a world of deadly threats and conflicting stories about their species’ origins. Combining heroic battles, dark mysteries, and heartfelt friendships, The Underfoot: The Mighty Deep is the beginning of an epic sci-fi trilogy chronicling the animal kingdoms left to rise and fall in the absence of the Giants-That-Were. When the hamsters learn the truth about their past, will they find the strength to overcome the forces aligning against them, or will their tiny horde be wiped from the earth?