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BOOK 1 - INGRID BERGMAN
INTRODUCTION: “HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU, KID”
1: “I DIDN’T CHOOSE ACTING. IT CHOSE ME.”
2: “I SMILED AT HIM, AND THAT WAS THE END”
3: “HERE I AM. LOOK AT ME!”
4: “I’VE MADE UP MY MIND.”
5: “THERE WAS A PLACE CALLED HOLLYWOOD”
6: “SELZNICK HAS JUST BOUGHT HIMSELF A NICE BIG HEALTHY SWEDISH COW”
7: “OH, THOSE WERE TERRIBLE MOMENTS.”
8: “THE BARS OF MY CAGE ARE BROKEN!”
9: “ONLY HALF OF ME IS ALIVE”
10: “I WAS A NEW ORLEANS BITCH, AND THAT WAS COMPLETELY NEW.”
11: “IT WAS CRAZY TO BE MARRIED TO THE ONLY PERSON I WAS AFRAID OF.”
12: “IT WAS LIKE STARTING TO LIVE ALL OVER AGAIN.”
13: “I AM TEARING A VERY DEAR PIECE AWAY FROM MY LIFE.”
14: “WHO IS THIS INGRID BERGMAN?”
15: “PETTER SAID SOMETHING, AND I DIDN’T HEAR HIM. I WAS LOOKING AT THOSE DARK EYES OF ROBERTO’S.”
16: “ROBERTO OFFERED A WAY OUT FROM BOTH MY PROBLEMS: MY MARRIAGE AND MY LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD.”
17: “SO SHE WAS JUST A GODDAMNED WHORE!”
18: “INGRID BERGMAN IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL WOMEN ON EARTH TODAY - I REGRET TO SAY, A POWERFUL INFLUENCE FOR EVIL.”
19: “THE WORLD HATED THE ROSELLINI VERSION OF ME. NOTHING WORKED.”
20: “IN ROBERTO’S TERMS, I WAS HIS PROPERTY.”
21: “I REALIZED THERE WERE AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE WHO REALLY WANTED ME BACK.”
22: “WE UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER. WE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TO TALK.”
23: “WHEN I LOOK BACK NOW AT WHAT I WAS DOING THEN, I CAN RECOGNIZE ALL THE DANGER SIGNS.”
24: “IT REALLY WASN’T A MARRIED EXISTENCE.”
25: “OH GOD! OH GOD! NO, IT CAN’T HAPPEN TO ME!”
26: “SO THERE WAS DEATH, AND THERE WAS LIFE.”
27: “THERE IS SOMETHING SO DRAMATIC, NOSTALGIC, AND ALMOST HEARTBREAKING ABOUT THE END OF A RUN OF A PLAY.”
EPILOGUE: “WE WISH WE HAD MORE OF HER.”
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BOOK 2 - BETTE DAVIS
INTRODUCTION: “SHE DID IT THE HARD WAY.”
1: “I HAPPENED BETWEEN A CLAP OF THUNDER AND A STREAK OF LIGHTNING.”
2: “I THOUGHT THE RAIN HAD CAUSED THE ROOF TO CAVE IN. IT WAS THE AUDIENCE. IT WAS APPLAUSE.”
3: “YOU WILL SOMEDAY BE KNOWN IN EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.”
4: “I WANTED TO BE AN ACTRESS, NOT A GLAMOUR GIRL.”
5: “THE KID IS WALKING AWAY WITH THE PICTURE.”
6: “ONCE AND FOR ALL, I HAD TO CONSOLIDATE MY POSITION AS AN ACTRESS - AND NOT A PAINTED PUPPET SUBJECT TO MY MASTERS’ WHIMS.”
7: “I WAS NEVER SURER OF MYSELF PROFESSIONALLY THAN AT THIS MOMENT.”
8: “I SECURED MY CAREER AND MY STARDOM FOREVER.”
9: “CREATION IS HELL!”
10: “IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE THAT HE WAS GONE - JUST LIKE THAT.”
11: “I WAS NO LONGER ALONE.”
12: “THE PERFECT SETTING, I DECIDED, IN WHICH TO KILL MYSELF.”
13: “THERE WAS NO QUESTION THAT WE LOVED AND RESPECTED EACH OTHER. HOW COULD WE FAIL?”
14: “THE LITTLE WOMAN NO LONGER EXISTS.”
15: “THE POSSIBILITY OF STARS IN TEMPERAMENTAL COLLISION HAS THE APPEAL OF GLADIATORIAL COMBAT FOR THE TRIBE OF CALIGULA.”
16: “MOTHER OF THREE. DIVORCEE. AMERICAN THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE AS AN ACTRESS. WANTS STEADY EMPLOYMENT IN HOLLYWOOD.”
17: “OLD AGE AIN’T NO PLACE FOR SISSIES”
18: “MISS DAVIS, WE ALL LOVE YOU.”
EPILOGUE: “THERE’S BETTE DAVIS. THEN THERE’S EVERYBODY ELSE”
SOURCES
BOOK 3 - KATHARINE HEPBURN
INTRODUCTION
1: “WOMEN ARE AS GOOD AS MEN”
2: “YOU CRY – BUT INSIDE I WAS FROZEN”
3: “WELL, THAT’S THAT - I’M A STAR”
4: “THE KID HAS SOMETHING”
5: “MADE FOR THE SCREEN”
6: “AN ARISTOCRATIC AMERICAN GARBO”
7: “THE GAMUT OF EMOTION FROM A TO B”
8: “THERE WAS NO ESCAPING HER”
9: “I’M LIKE THE GIRL WHO NEVER GREW UP, YOU SEE?”
10: “WHAT’S WRONG WITH KATHARINE HEPBURN?”
11: “COME BACK, KATIE, ALL IS FORGIVEN”
12: “I DISCOVERED WHAT ‘I LOVE YOU’ REALLY MEANS”
13: “HE COULD BE A MEAN BASTARD IF HE GOT TOO DRUNK”
14: “I LIKE TO CHECK IN AND CHECK OUT”
15: “THERE ARE ACTRESSES – THEN THERE IS HEPBURN”
16: “HOW I WENT TO AFRICA WITH BOGART, BACALL, AND HUSTON AND ALMOST LOST MY MIND”
17: “I WAS SWIMMING - AGAINST THE TIDE, BUT SWIMMING”
18: “IF THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A TRAVESTY, IT IS”
19: “HE CLOSED HIS EYES - HE WAS GONE - JUST GONE”
20: “THERE WAS A SOUND OF A CUP SMASHING TO THE FLOOR - THEN CLUMP - A LOUD CLUMP”
21: “THE WIDOW WHO COULDN’T MOURN”
22: “I PRAYED – SOMEONE HELP ME – AND OUT I WENT”
23: “I’VE BEEN ABSOLUTELY PETRIFIED ALL MY LIFE”
24: “SHE’S TOUGH. CHRIST! SHE WANTS TO DO EVERYTHING!”
25: “A CRANKY OLD BROAD BUT A LOT OF FUN”
26: “RETIRE? WHAT’S THE POINT?”
EPILOGUE
SOURCES
BOOK 4 - ELIZABETH TAYLOR
INTRODUCTION: “I’M RULED BY MY PASSIONS”
1: “I HAD THE MOST IDYLLIC CHILDHOOD”
2: “I DON’T WANT TO BE A MOVIE STAR”
3: “I FELT ALWAYS THE OUTSIDER”
4: “I WANTED TO BE A WOMAN”
5: “I REALLY HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS COMING”
6: “I JUST WANT TO BE WITH MICHAEL”
7: “DON’T HORSE AROUND, YOU’RE GOING TO MARRY ME”
8: “TODD . . . COULD CON THE GOLD OUT OF YOUR TEETH”
9: “I’M TOO HAPPY”
10: “I WAS TRYING TO SEE IF WAS ALIVE OR DEAD”
11: “COME OVER HERE AND KISS ME”
12: “THIS MARRIAGE WILL LAST FOREVER”
13: “OUR FIGHTS ARE DELIGHTFUL SCREAMING MATCHES”
14: “MAYBE WE LOVED EACH OTHER TOO MUCH”
15: “STURM HAS REMARRIED DRANG”
16: “HER SEVENTH MARRIAGE . . . WOULD SURELY LAST FOREVER”
17: “HOW IN GOD’S NAME HAD I COME TO THIS?”
18: “I WAS AWASH IN SELF-PITY AND DISGUST”
19: “I’VE GOT TO . . . HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY SICK”
20: “I DON’T GIVE A SHIT WHAT PEOPLE THINK”
21: “OH COME ON, DO I LOOK LIKE I’M DYING?”
EPILOGUE
SOURCES
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