Gloria and Joe: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy, by Axel Madsen
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Gloria and Joe: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy, by Axel Madsen
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The ultimate Hollywood story revealed: the sizzling relationship between Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of America’s most influential political family, and Gloria Swanson, one of the most prominent silent film stars of her day. Gloria and Joe were in love with each other and with the movies, especially Queen Kelly, which completed the real-life ménage à trois. Starring along with the star of the screen and the Boston Brahman in this exposé are Erich von Stroheim, Kennedy’s wife Rose, Swanson’s husband, and a cast of colorful hangers-on. Madsen recreates their love, scandal, and world, which in its extravagance and intrigue has never been surpassed.
Gloria and Joe: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy, by Axel Madsen- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Released on: 2015-05-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .88" w x 5.51" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 387 pages
Review “Axel Madsen shows Gloria Swanson and Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., in such a satisfyingly full-blown way that few readers—even Kennedys—will carp about invasion of privacy or mud on the idol. . . . [An] unstoppable read. . . . Reckless love, seen big.” —Kirkus Reviews “Covering events in the lives of both principals until their deaths, the author also adds gossip about the Kennedy clan and members of the film colony.” —Publishers Weekly “Gloria and Joe is great reading. Madsen [is] an expert on Hollywood. . . . The great strength of his book . . . is the background against which the somewhat torrid events were played out—Hollywood at the end of the silent era, in a time of enormous scandals and just before the entire American economy collapsed. It would make a fabulous movie.” —Cosmopolitan
About the Author Axel Madsen authored twenty-two books, including sixteen biographies. His most notable works include an in-depth look at the life of a legendary fashion icon, Chanel: A Woman of Her Own, and an investigation of the relationship between Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy, Gloria and Joe: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy. Madsen began his journalism career as a legman for columnist Art Buchwald in Paris, and later wrote one of the first books on television’s longest-running news magazine show, 60 Minutes: The Power and the Politics of America’s Most Popular TV News Show. As a 20th Century Fox publicist, he handled Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and George C. Scott, and was fired off Myra Breckinridge for siding with director Mike Sarne against producer Robert Fryer. His Hollywood biographies include the life stories of directors William Wyler, John Huston, and Barbara Stanwyck, as well as an examination of Golden Age Hollywood’s gay underground in The Sewing Circle. He wrote and produced the ITV documentary version of The Sewing Circle. Over the years, Madsen interviewed scores of movers and shakers, from legends like Goldwyn and Selznick to directors like Howard Hawks, Louis Milestone, and Rouben Mamoulian. Madsen died in 2007.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Adequate presentation By Anyechka This book covered an interesting topic, but the writing style left something to be desired. At times it was page-turning and lively, but for a lot of the time it just wasn't written in a very lively and compelling style. From what I've found out, Mr. Madsen's other books suffer from the same problem; they're not badly written per se, just written in a way that gets the facts across and never really goes deeper to make the material compelling and personally involving to the reader. The title refers to the three-year affair between Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy, Sr., which was set in motion because they began a business alliance in the late Twenties. Along the way we also got biographical information about Gloria and Joe both before, during, and after the affair. Although as interesting as a lot of these incidents were, it really read more like a report or essay instead of a biography that really conveyed a sense of the author having real enthusiasm and passion for his two subjects. And it was pretty dull to read about all of the business deals and stockholders' meetings, let alone in such detail.I haven't read any of Mr. Madsen's other books, but I have found out that there as in this book, he really does seem obsessed or overly concerned about peoples' sexual orientation. A lot of times he'll refer to or introduce someone as, say, "a gay screenwriter," even if that has nothing to do with the overall story. And some of the people whom he is so convinced were gay just weren't; for example, Alla Nazimova was probably bisexual instead of lesbian, and it appears to just be an old unfounded rumor that Natacha Rambova (whose forname he can't even spell correctly) was a lesbian. Mr. Madsen also makes the claim that her marriage to Rudolph Valentino was never consummated, which blatantly contradicts everything else I've ever read about them. Most couples should be as sexually active as they were. There are also a few other things that are similarly gossipy and unfounded, sort of written in a kind of sensationalistic way, or just repeating old Hollywood gossip and rumors that have been disproven more than just a few times.There was some great material here, about some interesting events, I just wish that it had been written in a more lively style and been more professional instead of succumbing to gossip or Mr. Madsen's strange obsession in outing people he thinks he were gay.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. lot of copy from Gloria By Mason the von Mason I bought this OK read ,but then I bought Gloria Swanson's memiors found Axel had taken huge section of his book from Gloria's memiors,just buy her memiorsget everything thats here plus more
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