Presenting Persis Khambatta
Presenting Persis Khambatta

Author: Sherilyn Connelly

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-04-12

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1476642931

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In 1965, 18-year-old Persis Khambatta became the third woman to be crowned Miss India. After moving to England and then to the United States, she found worldwide fame in the first Star Trek movie in 1979, and in 1980 she became the first Indian presenter at the Academy Awards. The American film industry seemed never to forgive Khambatta for being a non-white woman who refused to do nude scenes. After failing to sustain a career as either a producer or a performer, she achieved a triumph before her sudden death in 1998 with the publication of her book Pride of India: A Tribute to Miss India. Based on contemporary news articles and primary sources, this first biography examines Khambatta's Hindi and English-language film and television work, and demonstrates the many ways she was ahead of her time as a filmmaker, feminist, and humanitarian.

Presenting Persis Khambatta
Presenting Persis Khambatta

Author: Sherilyn Connelly

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-04-12

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1476681953

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In 1965, 18-year-old Persis Khambatta became the third woman to be crowned Miss India. After moving to England and then to the United States, she found worldwide fame in the first Star Trek movie in 1979, and in 1980 she became the first Indian presenter at the Academy Awards. The American film industry seemed never to forgive Khambatta for being a non-white woman who refused to do nude scenes. After failing to sustain a career as either a producer or a performer, she achieved a triumph before her sudden death in 1998 with the publication of her book Pride of India: A Tribute to Miss India. Based on contemporary news articles and primary sources, this first biography examines Khambatta's Hindi and English-language film and television work, and demonstrates the many ways she was ahead of her time as a filmmaker, feminist, and humanitarian.

Beautiful Ghosts
Beautiful Ghosts

Author: Sherilyn Connelly

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-11-12

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1476686335

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A Generation X transgender woman, Sherilyn Connelly came out of the closet in 1999. Her own identity still emerging, she had stumbled into a difficult, stifling relationship. Also, her employment at a tech company ceased when the dot-com bubble burst. It was a goth boy from Bolinas that first took her shopping for make-up, and the San Francisco goth scene became her respite. This wickedly eye-opening memoir reveals how Connelly dealt with a toxic partner and found her voice as a woman. A longtime cinephile, it tells how she became a writer, rekindled a love for cult films and horror conventions, and learned "the secret to becoming a star." Her remembrances are also a tale of a bygone era of sex, music and San Francisco and its darkened underworld of goth strays--her literate vampires and beautiful ghosts.

Time
Time

Author: Briton Hadden

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 1094

ISBN-13:

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Box Office Champs
Box Office Champs

Author: Eddie Dorman Kay

Publisher: Gramercy

Published: 1990-09-24

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780517692127

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"Throughout the book are more than 350 unforgettable film stills and posters, wonderful images in color and black and white, drawn from the files of the renowned Kobal Collection. Included are photographs of such luminaries as Tyrone Power as Jesse James; Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (and Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly in the musical remake, High Society); Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper in for Whom the Bell Tolls; John Wayne in Red River; James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor in Giant; Dustin Hoffman as The Graduate; Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry; Sylvester Stallone as Rocky; Goldie Hawn as Private Benjamin; and Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future. This then is truly a book for fans of all ages, offering insights into movie history, the art of film-making, and the changing state of popular culture."--