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Lädt ... Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Storyvon John O'Dowd
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Barbara Payton (1927-1967) was a Hollywood star on the rise in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She co-starred with such A-list male stars as James Cagney (KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE) and Gregory Peck (ONLY THE VALIANT) and developed a reputation for being something of a nympomaniac. It all went downhill after her lover (fellow human trainwreck Tom Neal) beat up her fiance (the refined actor Franchot Tone). (click on link below to read the full review) For noir fans, Barbara Payton has a firm place as one of the bright, talented stars who made an all-too brief appearance on the silver screen before fading into obscurity. Once promoted as “the white diamond with blue eyes” this gorgeous actress earned an “unprecedented” $10,000 a week following her successful role in the noir film Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Just twenty-two years old, Barbara was a noted, promising young actress slated for stardom. Yet within a few short years, Barbara was blacklisted in Hollywood, shunned by her former costars, and became a prostitute working some of the sleaziest skid-row areas of Tinseltown. (click on link below to read the full review)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story is the only family-authorized biography of the late Hollywood actress whose promising film career in the 1950s was quickly overtaken by a disastrous and scandal-ridden personal life that left her career in ashes. Barbara Payton's story has long been considered one of the saddest and most potent cautionary tales the town has ever known. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The writing style allowed me to feel that I was around during this time period in the world of Hollywood studios and it's tight networks. (I was around then, but I was busy growing up from babyhood to high school in the typical middle class world in Long Beach.) This world seems to have been a harsh and male dominated one, where actresses were expected if not required to behave in a specific manner. Barbara was not one to fit in to that mould. She seemed to have a good heart but her desire for approval and recognition were stronger and took her in a bad direction. Her choices ended in good endings. Men who used her and fueled her party-hardy choices. Notorious behaviour that garnered her headlines...not of the good kind. Choices that caused her to lose roles in movies and the custody of her son. These results seemed to just drive her further and further down that path of destruction.
The writing moved along pretty well, but the last couple chapters seemed to be more of a collection of eulogies and a bit long. Otherwise a pretty interesting read. I also enjoyed the fact that there were actual photos from the time to give some visual cues of what the style was and what various characters looked like. (