Resultados para "Holly" en Ficción biográfica

Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson. Before they were household names, these budding legends called Sue’s Nashville apartment—lovingly dubbed the “Boar’s Nest”—home. Sue’s place was an intimate staging ground where a new breed of singer-songwriters—wounded souls, wayward upstarts—would spur each other on to tap into something bigger, realer.

Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idealist who believes that "the perfect film" can be created. When she pulls an unproduced stage play set in Morocco out of the slush pile, she has a feeling this one is special, maybe not perfect but special enough to secure her place as an equal to the studio's most powerful men. No one agrees with her until two young studio writers, Julius and Philip Epstein, decide to back Renie's gamble and bring the Morocco story to the screen. Their screenplay's name: Casablanca.

Der erste Autofahrer war eine Frau! Eine große Liebe, eine bahnbrechende Erfindung und eine Frau, die die Welt verändert - Alexander Schwarz' historischer Roman Bertha Benz und die Straße der Träume ist die erste Roman-Biografie über die Frau, die dem Automobil zum Durchbruch verholfen hat. Mannheim, 1888: Bertha Benz hat genug! Sie liebt ihren Mann Carl, bewundert den brillanten Ingenieur und glaubt fest an seine Vision einer pferdelosen Kutsche. Schließlich verbringt sie selbst genug Zeit in der Werkstatt und lässt sich alle Motoren und Maschinen erklären, die Carl sich ausdenkt.

What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel—and the manuscript still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the lives of three women through the discovery of a...